Photo: Mecum
On Saturday we brought before you something incredible we discovered on the lot of an upcoming auction: a 350-hp twin-turbo custom motorcycle the likes of which we'll probably never get to experience ourselves. And now here's another one, equally as exciting.
The bike we talked about yesterday was put together by one of the greatest names of the custom motorcycle scene, Carl Brouhard, and back in 2008 when it was shown at the 59th Grand National Roadster Show in Ponoma, California, it was declared America's Most Beautiful Motorcycle.
The bike we have here, also officially called a Brouhard Design V-4 Softail, is two years younger and, even if it doesn't wear the title of most beautiful motorcycle, it does have a lot of things going for it, enough of them to land it awards at other events: the Easyriders Bike Show, Sacramento Autorama Bike Show and EGO Grand National Bike Show.
Unlike the version we presented yesterday, this one has a nickname, and that is Fourgiven. Put together on order, it uses a chassis supplied by Nothing But Customs and a custom-made V-Quad engine that's 194ci in displacement.
The powerplant is a masterpiece in itself. The work of Nelson Engineering, it's a four-cylinder wonder that makes use of four Harley-Davidson Evolution cylinder barrels and heads, and TP Engineering crankcases and crankshaft. The way it was assembled allows it to develop 250 hp, and unlike in the case of yesterday's bike, that was considered more than enough for the purposes of this build.
Yet that's still a huge number for a motorcycle, so a large wheel was needed at the back to handle it all. For this purpose Brouhard went for a 360 mm wide rear tire, wrapped around a Chip Foose wheel.
All of the above, the orange paint that wraps around the bike, and everything else about it makes the Fourgiven everything many of us have been dreaming about, but there's an important flaw about it: the thing is not street legal, and can only be used for display purposes.
That's how the ride has been used so far, including for several years as part of the Vault in Big Horn Country Club in Palm Desert, California, and that's probably what will happen to it in the future as well. Only now it will be displayed under new ownership.
That's because the Fourgiven is listed as part of the Mecum auction in Monterey, California, later this month. Although we don't have an estimate as to how much the ride cost to put together, we do know how much the seller expects to get for it now: up to $100,000, provided the right crowd is on the floor of the event.
We'll come back on this story once we learn how much someone ended up paying for it.
The bike we have here, also officially called a Brouhard Design V-4 Softail, is two years younger and, even if it doesn't wear the title of most beautiful motorcycle, it does have a lot of things going for it, enough of them to land it awards at other events: the Easyriders Bike Show, Sacramento Autorama Bike Show and EGO Grand National Bike Show.
Unlike the version we presented yesterday, this one has a nickname, and that is Fourgiven. Put together on order, it uses a chassis supplied by Nothing But Customs and a custom-made V-Quad engine that's 194ci in displacement.
The powerplant is a masterpiece in itself. The work of Nelson Engineering, it's a four-cylinder wonder that makes use of four Harley-Davidson Evolution cylinder barrels and heads, and TP Engineering crankcases and crankshaft. The way it was assembled allows it to develop 250 hp, and unlike in the case of yesterday's bike, that was considered more than enough for the purposes of this build.
Yet that's still a huge number for a motorcycle, so a large wheel was needed at the back to handle it all. For this purpose Brouhard went for a 360 mm wide rear tire, wrapped around a Chip Foose wheel.
All of the above, the orange paint that wraps around the bike, and everything else about it makes the Fourgiven everything many of us have been dreaming about, but there's an important flaw about it: the thing is not street legal, and can only be used for display purposes.
That's how the ride has been used so far, including for several years as part of the Vault in Big Horn Country Club in Palm Desert, California, and that's probably what will happen to it in the future as well. Only now it will be displayed under new ownership.
That's because the Fourgiven is listed as part of the Mecum auction in Monterey, California, later this month. Although we don't have an estimate as to how much the ride cost to put together, we do know how much the seller expects to get for it now: up to $100,000, provided the right crowd is on the floor of the event.
We'll come back on this story once we learn how much someone ended up paying for it.
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