Test Driving the Craziest Harley-Davidson ever: Tilting Motor works
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2020
- Today we are test driving the craziest Harley-Davidson ever! Some people call this the Can-Am Spyder conversion, but it's actually called the Tilting Motorworks conversion! Check out this crazy test drive on a 3 wheeled Harley-Davidson!
One of the few bikes that can be compared to the Tilting Motororks conversion is the Yamaha Niken.
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My buddy is an amputee that lost his leg in an unfortunate accident. He has this bike where he also added a left side dual (heel toe) shifter/rear brake. This has given him the freedom to ride and he LOVES it.
I had a stroke and this gives me hope that one day I will ride again.
Godspeed brother
James Lampe hang in there my friend! Keep a picture of this close and use it to motivate your rehabilitation. I pray you’ll be riding soon! Also check out the videos on “Tilting motorworks” you’ll be inspired.
Bro also you can get a rekluse clutch on this bike
For sure you will bro. 👍
You will buddy. I'm an incomplete paraplegic and I installed a trike kit on a harley sportster and adapted it so I could ride by myself. That's the trike in my avi.
Here’s the thing with this bike, it’s not for everyone but in my humble opinion, anything that gets folks out riding something other than 4 wheels is a win. I’d definitely make this number three in my garage just for the potential and the uniqueness. Thanks Sean and team for highlighting this machine. Well done.
Well done... always showcasing different designs and makes. 👍😎
Thanks Shawn for putting out such great videos. Your very informative, plus you add the Word to each video. Plus you guys are always add alittle humor also. God Bless all you during these dire times. Gods favor is covering you!🙏
I'd love to test ride one of those bikes. Great option for someone who can no longer ride a two-wheeler but isn't ready to give up motorcycles. Riding a traditional trike (two wheel in the back) is like having a motorcycle with training wheels, it feels weird. I'm not a fan of the classic trike...or bikes with a sidecars. Gotta be able to lean.
Sean, thanks for the Video I appreciate your enthusiasm and how you bring to life each bike you test ride. I saw the Recent Jay Leno RUclips where he interviewed the owner and inventor of the Tilting Motor works Trike kit. Since then I have considered buying one. I am 72 and have been riding since I was 15 years old funding the hopping up of my 1062 Honda 305 Superhawk. When I was done with it I the bike was doing wheelies in all four gears and I difficulties smoking out clutches, breaking chains and crashing the transmission bending putting so much power through it that I bent the main transmission shaft. However because of work demands on my time I took a 10 year hiatus from motorcycling and got down to one bike (an old R50/5 BMW airhead that was not running and I was considering restoring. This summer I semi-retired deciding to get back in to riding again. So in the last 6 months I bought 5 motorcycles and began watching RUclipss to catch-up on the M/C industry. Of all the M/C RUclipsrs I enjoy yours the best. Also ...on another note I was stunned and surprised to see how much my riding skills and strength had slipped in the last decade of not riding. I doing fine on my smaller bikes like the new Huskavarna Svartpilen 401, the Suzuki DL65O VStrom, or the BMW1200GS. However, I continue to struggle with the Honda Goldwing GL1800 and have Dropped it twice when comming to a stop with a side slope. I weigh in at 215 pounds and both times was carrying a 200 pound passenger. So now I only ride solo, as I still struggle with the 900 pound Goldwing in low speed maneuvers. I know a time will come when I am not able to keep riding a heavy two wheel bike, So I am considering adding a tilting 3-wheel motorcycle, or a maxi-Scooter like the 650 Suzuki Burgman Executive to my stable. What are your thoughts and recommendations here?
looks awesome ,been looking for the perfect something for 10 yrs ,need the stability of a trike with that lean ,how excellent ,get excited watching it the 25th time,so need to get back in the wind well done looks perfect
Very cool setup. It looks really stable. But for 14k it is a very expensive add on! Great for the handicapped who want to ride again but can't ride a regular bike or people who are to small or old to ride a big bike. It really eliminates the weight issue and falling over! Excellent idea how it will center up when it comes to a stop. Thanks for sharing this with us. Take care and God bless you all!
Checked their website and love the Goldwing one. Makes a lot of sense.
I love the design of tilting motor works. I'm really looking to buy a kit for my 100th anniversary road king classis
Thank you for brining back the Words of Wisdom being read during the drive!
Amen
A $14,000 dealer installed kit...Well designed and built. Great alternative to a trike or can-am. That bike should sell easily! Thanks for introducing us to the bike Sean!
It’s a great kit but I think they install in the North west area that’s either shipped or a long ride for most people
I have an 1800 Goldwing with the TMW conversion, it rides much as this guy stated. With the "Tilt-Loc" option it takes a while to get used to the transition from reverse steer to snowmobile steer which is sometimes awkward and it is possible to drop the bike. If you get one of these be prepared to invest some time in learning how to ride it.
O man does this mean I'm going to get old? Your a good man. Thanks.
I was in a bad motorcycle accident in April 2020.. I lost ALOT of strength and my back and left leg are sore 24/7 and I wanna ride SOOO bad.. this open many doors for me.. I like freewheelers but I'd rather have this to lean and whatnot.. absolutely genius 👏
I like the front end on the Harley much better! It's a bit expensive though, I think it could be worth it to the right rider. Very cool!
Very cool! Thanks for the video, sir! I hope it catches on. I like the idea better than a tri glide which I did test ride and did not like. It felt like a 4 wheeler, not a motorcycle.
Maybe even a few other makers will help drive the kits costs down in the future... I like this idea.
Sean I was at a bike show in Snohomish Washington like 18 years ago and there was a guy there that had a prototype of this technology. I looked up tilting motor works and there in my home town of Snohomish wa so I saw one of the early prototypes. So cool to find out how far he has come.
I'm so Glad you took my idea in consideration ..LOL That's awsome. Much love to my beautiful friends living the dream out in Beautiful Pennsylvania Tod Bless you and Families ! STAY SAFE ! And keep reaching out and sharing the knowledge passed on to us !
I love the tilting motor works, but 13k for the kit means you have to be pretty committed to the idea. If you managed to find a used model, the value proposition is there - but a Spyder is the same cost as the kit and going to give you a pretty amazing experience. It's hard to recommend one of these if you aren't married to the idea of a Harley.
Or if you already own a harley...
They are doing it for Gold Wings and I asked them to consider the BMW 1600. THAT would be cool
They make indian kits as well
best test ride for this on you tube, I think . Thank you !
Love the dual front wheels I want one for mine. Gravel is a big problem where I live.
Whenever I remember my fun times touring southern Ireland I then remember the gravel at the side of the road.
Oh My , gone 73 , riding since '63 , still riding my Long Time ownership of two Shovelheads and a z1300 , never felt the need for a newer or different Motorcycle....until now . I am in the UK , if you was closer I would be banging on your Door to Deal .
9:43... I think you hit on it... "maybe your older and just can't handle all the weight of a passenger and luggage and a heavy bike anymore but with something like this you have the ability to keep riding" 😉
I think at that point I'd prefer a trike but, this is certainly a viable option. I'm 71 and 3 wheels just isn't appealing no matter what the configuration is but who knows what the future will hold.
Nice video as always! Keep um commin!
Seen a prototype of this years ago. Looked frikken sweet!
Looks like I might get to ride again . Can't handle the 800 # harleys anymore because of age and back problems . Never really liked trikes because you can't lean them without raising a wheel . Can hardly wait to get a chance to ride a Harley with this leaning rig . I guess I would have to go back with a Street Glide with this package . Great job and innovation .
I love how you can look at the pros and cons of a bike without over hyping or bashing the thing.
pros for one person might be cons for another and visa versa
Guys first off love ur channel/ videos...I recently purchased (dec 19) a 20 heritage softail classic with m8 107 I would love to see video on this bike to get ur input...I personally love it of course lol but if u get ur hands on 18 up model I'd love to see video... anyways as wild as the 3 wheels are I'll keep my 2 lol. Y'all are awesome keep up the good work
This would provide a better motorcycle experience than the trike. Love this!
Dang he has a ton of experience riding bikes and he is having a heck of a time keeping that thing in the lane that's crazy.
Hey this is too you and SRK I saw on 3-19 . its getting real on virus and glad you will still help your business and also still ship out! In want to do business as well as meet y'all! Hopefully things calm soon! Thanks!
Can-Am snow blower. That's funny having raced against them in motocross in the 70s. They won a lot of races.
I have a Piaggio MP3 500, it is stable on bad surfaces and in wind. My sidecar motorcycle took a lot of practice to ride safely. Right turns were an adventure.
I just sold my MP3 500. And I miss it already. But I just had too many bikes in my garage. The MP3 500 was indeed amazing in cross winds and when meeting large trucks. It also rode very well and could eat up miles without wearing you out. My biggest day on that Piaggio was 560 miles and I still felt good.
@@2500vtg I think about selling it now and then, and then I ride it on the freeway. Nothing else I have is quite as comfortable or stable.
I saw one of these a few months ago at a gas station. The owner was a machinist who built it from scratch, it was a good looking machine.
Great video like that new style of trike. Would love to ride that cool machine. Thanks for sharing your video ‘s.
You mentioned the dump trucks. That was like every 3rd or 4th vehicle you encountered. Crazy.😀
Im a younger person and Im looking to get into motorcycles and having 3 wheels seems like an added safety to help. I always liked the can am trikes but never liked losing the leaning of the motorcycle. So I was excited to find out about these.
if you are able bodied just buy a 2 wheeled bike and actualy learn to ride one
Years ago I had met by an older biker and he had been riding motorcycles for years by the time I met him he was riding a 650 Yamaha v star Silverado, and he told me that he was too old for those big Harley Davidson bikes and this was all could handle now, but he was really happy with it, said that at his age a much lighter bike was great and he didn't need to go to fast anyway, he said he took his great grandchildren for rides now too, he was over eighty and said he could not ride his old Harley anymore, I really appreciate the fact that he just downsized, but he was still riding
Wow super impressive you seem to have done it again ! Nice brother
I even like the looks of the front end with the fender and grill...
Pretty cool. I saw my first one down in Florida a few days ago.
I like it. Thanks for your excellent video. God bless you. 😎
Having that confidence in turns..ohh( as corner approaches) :)
there was a littlr bit of learing curve to get used to how the bike rode to be honest
Another great vid guys. Hope you all have a great day. God bless
Had to watch this again this is a classic setup
Love the content guys keep it up
Ive got a 2011 road king with that front end. Only ridden it once because adapting a prosthethic arm to riding takes time but hopefully i can handle it.
As soon as I wrote to you about it, I saw that you had already tried it a long time ago !!! We use them even in Ukraine! Only not on Harley, but on Honda gold wing, and on Suzuki Boulevard! A little bit improved and very satisfied!
I really like that idea. I also really like when you give the price. I have a Sportster.
Where have you been? TMW have been made for 30+ years by an engineer who, I believe, graduated from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. I bought a Honda Valkyrie to attach a kit to during my older years. But, by then, TMW had moved to CA and only made kits for Harley's and a few of the larger Honda Goldwings. So, I gave my Honda Valkyrie to my son, who lives in northern CA. Maybe by the time he is my age (early 70s), the kits will be available for ALL larger bikes. But for now, if you want a TMW kit, you are strapped to a owning few bikes. Maybe things have changed... but, to me during the mid-70s Harley's were made for one purpose... dragging a large magnet behind to pick up the parts that had fallen off while you drove it!
TMW is located in Washington, they're great people to work with. I have a 2016 csc trike but wanted to try to go back to the two wheel riding, so I purchased a 2018 DCT Goldwing and the trio kit; had it installed in Arizona. The bike is to much for me and I'm looking to sell. I will keep riding my csc trike and enjoy it while I can.
A VERY interesting concept,...& the next-logical-step in the 'reverse' trike world...THANKS for sharing this one with us...!!!...(GOOD to know they have made a kit for a 'Classic' VMAX...That might be WILD to try...!!!) Thanks, AS ALWAYS, for the Scripture...!!!
I live in Snohomish Washington. This was made Here right next to a cool little brewery. spoke with the owner myself. I have been tempted to do this to my Road king after I got a bad blood clot in my leg. its a bit steep at the moment though.
I would add a electric motors for reverse,breakdowns,and regeneration on side bags batteries what work great when camping
I saw one like this years ago since there was a state hog rally in my town. I later found out Harley actually had a patent for this years ago that could lean like this but beyond a prototype it never saw the light of day since the board of the corporation would not approve of it saying that it would never sell
Always wanted to check one of those out in person
You needed to flick the switch. While the bike was leaning. It's a little mind blowing to watch it stand up on it's own.
It looks like a nice comfortable trike. The front end of the trike is just as wide as a car. I can see myself riding thing.
Love your vids nice and humble in any way
Ok well I work so much I don't get much Time to see these newer options. Now I want to make my bike unique !
I see you finally found a Tilting Trike to try! How many miles did you ride it before you started the video? I rode a HD with the same kit you have but it was an Ultra that was a little too tall for me and it was not fun at all. If that was actually your 1st ride, 1st take, you sir are a master! Congrats!
Awesome Awesome Awesome.
Love it.
How much for the bike???
How much to hv this done to a bike???
I screwed up my back real bad. Was always wanting to ride again. Now with this I can. Love this.
Just waiting for your great followup: We hit the twisties!
The engineering that goes into a front end like that and for just under 20k in very reasonable.
RUclipss engines are working, I got a Can-am Ryker commercial at the end of the video.
My 2007 PIAGGIO MP3 250 IE got Tilting but having drive it that much! I am restoring it first because it been sitting in garage for 13 years got 003708 miles on it!
Haha that would be an amazing t shirt "highway + speeds"
I wonder how it would perform in the wet or the dirt when the back slides out. Would it flick you off when you counter steer to correct the slide?
I love this thing. Last June I had my left leg amputated below the knee. This is just what I need. How much does it cost?
If you had to choose between this or a regular trike kit like a frankenstein which would try?
These are super cool!
BSA did the same on a scooter with the two back wheel tilting late 60's
Wow!
Innovative engineering.
It sounds great! And looks amazing! :-)
I want one looks great fun and different to normal trike
Awesome, how is the suspension I wonder? Any good on bad roads ?
The way he says "Yamahaul" kills me every time 😂😆
Nice video, nice tech, if you get to Milwaukee and get to the Harley Museum and are lucky enough to get to know an R&D guy you can get a tour of the Skunk Works (top floor of the west building. There you will see 2 tilting Harleys that they built after taking apart a Piagio MP3. They did this back in 2006. Just saying.
@@lesoram6236 Harley copied an Italian design when they R&D their version of a tilting front end. They picked up one of the first Piagio MP3s from Reina International Autos which happens to be about 3 blocks away from the Harley Plant on Capitol Drive
Don't know who"s designs Titling Motor Works got their inspirations from. There were a bunch of tilting designs in the early 2000s. There was an internet forum where designers put things out there to share and promote tilting 3 wheeled motorcycles.
That is super cool. I am getting older. And, sometimes my Springer Softail is too heavy. And, I've been looking for what's next. And, this is a possibility for sure. :-) Peace, Stiletto :-)
I love this thing! I want one
Too weird for me! But I can see you're pumped about it.
Didn't have the fancy front fender but seen one of those when my local dealer hosted the state hog rally a few years back.
Supposedly Harly had a patent on a two wheel front end but never used it due to marketing research.
Man I'm thinking i like this more than the can am trikes, but are they stable?, like will i have to worry about falling off or the trike laying down on a slippery road??
Is it practical to put wider tires on the front end. Would that improve the braking?
It seems he doesn't have many curvy roads? Here in Upstate South Carolina we have hard time finding straight a ways lol
Based on watching you move the bars, it looks as though the steering is sluggish to inputs which I guess is just part of something you give up to get what it does.
it is a little slow at lower speeds and took me a little longer than expected to get the feel of it
Awesome idea and design! Great for wounded warriors!
hey whats that bike the couple is on when you first pull your website up? is that a scrambler or cafe style?
Let me know if you ever sell another Harley with this Tilting Motor system, would of bought this it in a heartbeat but about 7 months too late just now seeing this.
What is that blinking blue light on the handlebar’s left side?
The first thing I thought of when I saw the tilt lock was, wouldn’t this work great on a fully enclosed electric vehicle, like a reverse Carver but better looking and faster. It’s a shame the kit is $14,000.
i wonder how this does with the death wobble or if that isnt an issue.
Really cool setup but 14K for the kit, oooh man. I guess if you have Harley or Honda Goldwing money but I'd like to set a eco style setup for something like a MT07 or a sv650 or Vulcan even.
New company called arcimoto. They make a three-wheeled electric vehicle. They bought the tilty motor corporation. Maybe you could go and do a review on the arcimoto.
I've got one and its dangerous as hell. Once under way its just fine, but try making a standing turn or slowing below the 7 mph break free point for the front end and you'll find yourself heading for the ditches. You did this in the video. You went to stop before taking a right and the front end went to trike mode but YOU thought you were in tilt mode and headed towards the ditch.
so it is dangerous on low speeds and safe on highspeeds??
A very elegant engineering solution to lateral slow speed stability issues,but to me,looks to be more of a novelty item rather than a mainstream "motorcycle".
It would be cool if they had something similar to this on the spyder where it could lean
Hey bud I watch every video! I want to buy my first bike off you guys someday 🤙 keep up good work I live just north of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 🤙
thanks glad to hear it, would be honered to sell you your first bike
You will have my business. You guys are awesome.🤙 also tell Harrison I said hes fired 🤣
The first thing I thought when I saw this was epic donut machine
Very cool. Question: if you stop on a side-side slope, will it 'level-up' in relative to the wheels (ie so the whole bike will e sitting at an angle, or will the bike be directly vertical, irrespective of whether one wheel is lower than the other?
Yes, it levels to the horizon. Visit Tilting Motor Works website and watch their vids.