Welcome to today’s fight! Iiiin the red corner, weighing in at six huuuundred pieces, Billy ‘The Bludgeon’ Burg‘s Duuuucatti! Aaaand in the blue corner, weighing in at one huuuundred pieces, Hot Rod ‘The Impaler’‘s Cafe Raaaaacer!
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Bike Boxing
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Wild Hog
This beautiful Harley Davidson, found by one of our Elves on MOCpages, created much excitement within our chaotic workforce. The office was ransacked of all brooms, mops and rulers, which were quickly pressed into service as makeshift motorcycles, to the accompaniment of many ‘Bruumm, bruuuummmm’ noises. A quick blast of an air-horn returned a semblance of normality, scattering the Elves and leaving us to pick up the stolen office paraphernalia dropped during their rapid exit. We have Fred Ottens to thank for the disruption, but we’ve let him off as his Harley is just so good. Click his name to see the whole gallery.
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The Walking Dead
It looks like the Zombie Apocalypse has reached LEGO City too. Luckily there’s a little plastic version of Daryl from The Walking Dead complete with his chopper to keep the other mini-figures safe from the hoarding undead. See more and show your appreciation at Project Azazel‘s photostream.
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Groovy Little Motorbike
Honda’s Marc Marquez claimed victory at the German MotoGP over the weekend, so we’ve decided to take TLCB on two wheels for this post with a Honda from a different era (and budget!). The excellent Honda CB400 motorbike above comes courtesy of OzBen on Brickshelf. Check it out at the link and join the discussion on Eurobricks.
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Sidecars in Space!
Billyburg’s lunar speeder with sidecar somehow collides a retro motorbike with a sci-fi spaceship. It works though, as who wouldn’t want to zoom across the surface of the moon with a mate? You can see more of Billy’s work over on Flickr.
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Tron Tuesday
It’s a Tuesday, and we have a Tron MOC. The title practically wrote itself! Peter Mowry‘s awesome second generation Light Cycle is a work of Lego art. Based on the vehicles from the movie about a video game-turned-reality (and featuring on the sound-track the only good noise ever to come out of France – Daft Punk) you can see more of this brilliant creation on Peter’s photostream at the link above. The Game has changed.
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Two Fat Ladies
A far more professional Lego site beat us to publishing this spectacular 1:10 Harley Davidson ’88’ by TLCB favourite Brickonwheels, however our witty titles guy is back (points if you get this one!) and it’s just too cool not to post here too. Featuring a chromed 88 cubic inch engine and a brilliant rear wheel choice – using two 2903 wheels with a wide tyre stretched around both – you can find full galleries of this incredible motorcycle on both MOCpages and Flickr.
TLCB also interviewed Bricksonwheels recently and you can read the transcript in our Master MOCers series here, where he shares his building techniques, how he got into LEGO model-making, and his favourite bricks and builders.
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Harley Meet
New photo, old MOCs. We’re stretching our own ‘Freshest MOCs on the Net’ rule a little with this, but if there’s any reason for a stretch this is it. BricksonWheels finally photographs all his Harley Davidson motorbikes together. See the shoot on Flickr, and read about how he creates his stunning creations in his interview here.
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Outlaw
The Elves were a bit cross about this one. You see, it was submitted to us via the Feedback and Submission Suggestions page and so they’ve gone hungry today. Still, we opened up the cleaning cupboard at TLCB Towers and let them ride the mops around the office making ‘Bruuuurrm’ noises, so they do at least like the model in question. Called ‘Outlaw’ it’s been built by MOCpages’ Hot Rod and you can see it via the link.
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Black Shadow
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Two’s Company
It’s a sunny weekend here at TLCB Towers and because we want to go outside we’re going to double-up a post by rolling two two-wheeled finds together and pretending it was planned all along. First up is this spacey Vespa-ish scooter from Karf Oohlu on Flickr, on which the wheels might just be the cleverest things we’ve ever posted.
The second two-wheeled creation comes from fellow Flickr user – and a TLCB newcomer – Buster, who’s built the Segway from hell by combining the aforementioned Presidential wheels with what looks like a tank and an iPod. See more of each vehicle via the links above.
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Mr. Spock
Niether we nor the Elves like Star Trek (there are no cars in it). Accordingly we know virtually nothing about it other than there was an amusingly Scottish bloke called – imaginatively – Scotty, and another bloke with pointy ears who was a Vulcan, whatever one of those is. So, armed with this singular fact and a Kawasaki Vulcan motorbike by LegoMarat, we came up with the title above.
Since we’ve now exhausted our knowledge of sci-fi shows we’ll move on to the bike, which is so brilliant we weren’t sure it was Lego at first. But it is, coming complete with chromed wheels and shocks, a beautifully detailed engine, and probably the best handlebars ever made from Lego. Check it out on Flickr via the link above, and you can read TLCB’s other articles featuring LegoMarat’s work via the search function at the bottom of the page.
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Hump Day Motorcycle Special
The Elves are fiercely competitive creatures. They have to be, otherwise they won’t win any food tokens from TLCB staff. Whilst this occasionally leads to fights/riots, it can also lead to a bumper haul of similar creations. Today is one such event, so here’s our Mid-Week Motorcycle Special!
First up is BricksonWheels’ magnificent Harley Davidson, available to view on Flickr and MOCpages. This black ‘n chrome ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Street Glide continues BricksonWheels’ recent run of motorcycles, and you can check out its predecessors by using the Search function at the foot of this page.
The second creation in today’s special swaps chrome for Technic and was discovered by a lucky Elf on MOCpages. Bernhard Mollema‘s motorcycle, nicknamed ‘Fat Pig’*, puts the awesome wheels from the 8448 Supercar set to a great new use. Check it out at the link above.
The final creation in this Hump Day Special was suggested to us by one of our readers via the Feedback page. This mean looking Hard Tail, nicknamed ‘Widowmaker’ (it seems you can’t build a motorbike without giving it a name!) is the work of Jonsson on the Eurobricks forum. See the pictures and join in the discussion at the link, and if you’d like to suggest a creation take a look at our Submission Guidelines here.
*Your Mom.
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Don’t Upset the Rhythm
Based on the vehicles from the film ‘Akira’, F@bz‘ Mitsubishi Rhythm bike is a vision of a future we’re quite looking forward to. See all the photos at the link above.
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AKIRA
This beautifully slick creation is a product of the incredibly talented Arvo Brothers. Based on the AKIRA manga work of Katsuhiro Otomo, Kaneda’s bike is a stunning design in 2D, and looks even more spectacular with an additional dimension. Arvo Brothers’ Lego version of the Manga design is to be detailed in their new book, with explanations of how to build it and decals included. Read more at the brothers’ Flickr page here.
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Nice Rack
Following this week’s Massive Erection and in keeping with The Lego Car Blog’s Equal Opportunities Policy it was only fair we posted something equally childish targeting the female form. See more of Filip Gabryel‘s ‘Sexy Mechanic’ on Flickr.
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Softly Softly
Over to Eurobricks now, where Jonsson has published his excellent Technic soft-tailed chopper, as suggested to us by a reader. Featuring a working V-Twin engine and of course some spongy suspension, Jonsson’s bike a lesson in less-is-more. See all the photos at the Eurobricks discussion here.
You can check if your suggestion meets The Lego Car Blog’s criteria by reading our Submission Guidelines.
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Easy Vader
Get your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darth’s gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
See more of Fonda and Hopper’s new looks at mijasper‘s Flickr photostream.
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Ringdingding-da-ding-da-ding…
We’re pretty sure that the Crazy Frog ranks amongst mankind’s greatest evils ever unleashed upon society. Despite the fact that this creation reminded us of that hated amphibian it is rather good and thus deserves its place here. Karf Oohlu is the builder and you can see more on Flickr.
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Mini-Moto
One of our Eurobricks-based Elves returned today clutching this in one claw – with the other held out expectantly for a meal token. It was quite a brave choice by the aforementioned Elf as we don’t tend to blog small Technic creations here, but this is one we’d buy with our own pay packet if it were available.
Gsia17 is the builder, and he’s used under 200 parts to build this mini motorbike, even with a working engine and steering included. Check it out on Eurobricks at the link above.
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