If there's one thing we love more than Italian cars, it's motorcycles. Or maybe it's the other way around. No matter, because this wild machine joins our two passions in an Alfa Romeo-powered custom named, appropriately, Alfabeast.
This insanity is the work of Chris Barber, who we describe with utmost respect and admiration as a raving lunatic. There's no other way to describe a guy who would pull a 156-horsepower 2.5-liter V6 out of an Alfa Romeo and stuff it into a hardtail frame with a four-speed Harley-Davidson gearbox. Crazier still, you've got to kick start this beast. Yes, those are Weber carbs poking through the fuel tank, and yes, the bike has six individual tailpipes with no mufflers. We'd love to hear this thing at wide open throttle -- from a block or two away.
Barber is the one-man-band at Crossbreed Cycles in the U.K. It's a fitting name, given some of the other bikes he's building. If an Alfa isn't your thing, perhaps you'd like a Maserati V6 instead. No? How about Desmohog, which features a Harley engine with desmodromic heads pulled from a Ducati 900SS.
Like we said -- he's a lunatic.
Photo: Crossbreed Cycles via Bike EXIF. Hat tip to Chris!
