This Man Constructed His Personal Ferrari F355 Bike By Hand

What have been you doing within the first decade of the 2000s? Whether or not you may bear in mind it or not, we’ll guess that your actions did not contain sourcing a Ferrari F355 engine to energy the customized bike that you simply have been dreaming up in your head. That’s, except your identify is Birger Hansen and you reside in Denmark.

As he tells the story, he and his buddy Michael Anderson have been consuming at some point and chatting, as you do. Someplace in the middle of dialog, they began musing alongside the traces of “would not or not it’s loopy if we constructed one thing that nobody has ever tried earlier than?” 

Ultimately, the pair of pals agreed that if Anderson might procure the Ferrari F355 engine, then famous hands-on lifelong bike fanatic Hansen would construct the bike. 

Now, a number of pals out consuming at pubs have most likely come to comparable agreements, however not everybody sees their new venture by way of to the top. Every kind of life circumstances typically get in the best way. Happily, although, that wasn’t about to occur on Anderson and Hansen’s watch.

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Anderson got here by way of with the engine, and Hansen set to work. All informed, he says that he had a minimum of 100 separate elements made by specialists simply to suit his construct. The F355 engine is lovingly cradled by a Boss Hoss chassis, and the entire thing has an impressively glossy and completed look, as you may see within the video.

Merely constructing the factor wasn’t sufficient for Hansen, although. The method took round 10 years from begin to end, however he additionally took the time to have it kind authorised and absolutely highway registered in Denmark. He went by way of the whole Technischer Überwachungsverein (or TUV) technical approvals course of, had the F355 bike licensed, and paid for his registration paperwork and license plate like some other law-abiding motorcyclist within the nation. Besides, you realize, he’d constructed the factor himself.

It is a ardour venture that he dropped at life along with his personal two arms, and that he intends to proceed using till he cannot trip any longer. Should you’re a fortunate rider, perhaps you will have a motorbike you’re feeling that method about, too.