Photo: No Limit Custom
The Terminator movie franchise will forever be remembered by humans for several crazy ideas it brought to the big screen, including time travel, a robot uprising, and inescapable fate. Of interest to us today however is the so-called mimetic polyalloy.
In essence an idea from the realm of nanorobotics, the material was what stood at the core of the T-1000 robot sent back in time to murder John Connor before he became the leader of the human resistance.
The polyalloy allowed the machine to shapeshift not only to imitate humans, but also to grow its limbs into whatever tools and weapons it needed to employ. On screen, the stuff looked like molten chrome, but still shiny and impressive.
Now that you've got back a mental image of the material, just look at some of the parts used on this modified Harley-Davidson Dyna and try to avoid seeing any resemblance.
The bike is the work of one of the most famous modified motorcycle garages in Europe, German No Limit Custom (NLC). It's an older build of theirs called Streetfighter, but one that still looks fresh and modern to this day.
The bike rocks the usual modifications performed on American two-wheelers to make sure they stand out in a crowd, and they start with the fitting of custom wheels of undisclosed dimensions, hidden under custom fenders front and rear.
The lines of the ride are totally different than stock, thanks to the softening of the side view with the installation of a new fuel tank, the lowering of the saddle further into the frame, and the big mechanical changes made at the back.
The most obvious such change is the fitting of a custom double-sided swingarm. Called Modena, the hardware has been specifically designed by NLC with 2008-2017 Dynas in mind.
Made from a single piece of milled aluminum, it can accommodate wheels sized between 18 and 21 inches in diameter and as wide 260 mm.
In this application the swingarm was drowned in shiny chrome, and because of its design it looks just like the blade the T-1000 morphed one of its hands into and drove in the bodies of several of Terminator 2's protagonists.
The swingarm is accompanied by similarly styled covers for various parts of the motorcycle, with all the shiny metal looking simply impressive against the otherwise dark appearance of the bike.
NLC does not list all the modifications made to the Dyna and that makes it impossible for us to know exactly how much the bike is worth in this configuration. We do know how expensive the swingarm is, though: 2,490 euros, which is about $2,800 at today's exchange rates and about as much as the engine spoiler, primary offset kit, rear fender, and turn signal holders are worth combined.
The polyalloy allowed the machine to shapeshift not only to imitate humans, but also to grow its limbs into whatever tools and weapons it needed to employ. On screen, the stuff looked like molten chrome, but still shiny and impressive.
Now that you've got back a mental image of the material, just look at some of the parts used on this modified Harley-Davidson Dyna and try to avoid seeing any resemblance.
The bike is the work of one of the most famous modified motorcycle garages in Europe, German No Limit Custom (NLC). It's an older build of theirs called Streetfighter, but one that still looks fresh and modern to this day.
The bike rocks the usual modifications performed on American two-wheelers to make sure they stand out in a crowd, and they start with the fitting of custom wheels of undisclosed dimensions, hidden under custom fenders front and rear.
The lines of the ride are totally different than stock, thanks to the softening of the side view with the installation of a new fuel tank, the lowering of the saddle further into the frame, and the big mechanical changes made at the back.
The most obvious such change is the fitting of a custom double-sided swingarm. Called Modena, the hardware has been specifically designed by NLC with 2008-2017 Dynas in mind.
Made from a single piece of milled aluminum, it can accommodate wheels sized between 18 and 21 inches in diameter and as wide 260 mm.
In this application the swingarm was drowned in shiny chrome, and because of its design it looks just like the blade the T-1000 morphed one of its hands into and drove in the bodies of several of Terminator 2's protagonists.
The swingarm is accompanied by similarly styled covers for various parts of the motorcycle, with all the shiny metal looking simply impressive against the otherwise dark appearance of the bike.
NLC does not list all the modifications made to the Dyna and that makes it impossible for us to know exactly how much the bike is worth in this configuration. We do know how expensive the swingarm is, though: 2,490 euros, which is about $2,800 at today's exchange rates and about as much as the engine spoiler, primary offset kit, rear fender, and turn signal holders are worth combined.
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