This is Sam’s creation. It’s not every day that you see something as cool, unique, and flat-out badass as this beast of a bike. It doesn’t have a name yet (though Sam says “Juggernaut” might be an appropriate title), but it may not need one.
Sam says, “The original idea was a bomb-style fuel tank. The fuel tank ended up not working out very well having them down that low, so they ended up becoming the air tanks. I put some fake fins on the back of them so they’d look like bombs. In all honesty, I never really designed it to be super practical. I just wanted something that looked really cool that functioned as well as it could and also pushed the limits of what I’m capable of building, since I only have a little home machine shop and do this kind of stuff on the side.”
Sam has a pretty deep well of knowledge to draw from, since this isn’t the kind of thing that you can just refer to the owner’s manual when you run into trouble. If you watch the whole run of videos he’s posted as he’s gone through the build process, you’ll see how things have moved around (like the fuel/air tank swap) and certain pieces have had to be thought out differently to make them work right. “It’s not like it’s something I can search online to see how to make something work better because I’m having a certain issue, since it’s kind of a one-of-a-kind build,” Sam says. “It’s pretty much been playing it by ear, just building it and fixing it as I go along. There’s always room for improvement.”