Other Bikes » Could you love Iron Annie?

Fun to look at a picture, but no thanks.

Steampunk was last year.....

Love the saddle, but the pegs look too far forward for comfort, and I get the impression that the rivet work is cosmetic and not structural.

The story was all about the name and a couple of bits the author liked. But, does it really do 6 gears in reverse, as implied by the labelled left-hand switch above the peg and in the right place to switch the transmission..., or does that simply turn the shifting from standard to GP? Or, is it fake, as I assume the Danger, Ext. Power label is. The more I look, the more I see and the less I understand the odd mix of styles and intentions all thrown into one bike.

Well it's fun to see. We all know we wouldn't want to ride one. But I admire BMW (or whoever has done it) for thinking differently.

The rivets are a bit WW1 tank and the white lines look like a trace of Luftwaffe, which I guess was intended if it is named Annie-ju-52

They lost me with basing it on the R18. Basing it on the R9T would have made much more sense.

Reading this story, I was prompted to look-up the Ford Trimotor airplane. A pre-WW2 workhorse that I assumed used licensed Junker design info. But, no, in classic Henry Ford style, it was a blatant copy of several Junker designs that Ford refused to acknowledge. In many ways, the same story as Furguson and his tractor.

If anyone ever rides that thing, another person will need to follow and place the scissor jack under the bike every time they stop :)

Needs winglets