
BUILDER: Forrest Cookson (Sarge)
DIVISION: UAS (Ugly As Sin)
HISTORY:
Horror Factor 12 came from a fairly simple plan: Make a chopper with a few bicycle parts as possible. Of course,
the question immediately came up.... What are the necessary bike parts? Well, wheels are a good start, if you want
to make a bike that can keep up with the rest of the fleet. Pedals would be nice. A chain is probably
necessary.
And the bearings in the head tube probably need to be there as well. That being the list, the build was on.
Of course, a frame was no where near necessary. So he built one out of angle iron. The head bearings were needed, but not the head tube itself, so he used some spare pipe he had laying around. Pedals were needed, but not the bottom bracket they rest in, so he used some spare pipe there too.
Now he did use a few extra bike parts, but since they are not used for anything resembling their intended purpose, full points are of course given. The bike steers because he bolted two bike chains as a steering mechanism, and the handlebars are actually a bike fork that he bent the hell out of.
He did have to scrap the last remnants of Fubar to make this (mostly for the seat and chain). The thing rides real nice, and by the time this hits the web, he'll have built a chain tensioner into the frame. Altogether, a bitchin ride to say the least.