What have been you doing within the first decade of the 2000s? Whether you possibly can bear in mind it or not, we’ll guess that your actions did not contain sourcing a Ferrari F355 engine to energy the customized motorbike that you just have been dreaming up in your head. That is, except your identify is Birger Hansen and you reside in Denmark.

As he tells the story, he and his buddy Michael Anderson have been ingesting at some point and chatting, as you do. Somewhere in the middle of dialog, they began musing alongside the traces of “wouldn’t it be crazy if we built something that no one has ever tried before?” 

Eventually, the pair of mates agreed that if Anderson may procure the Ferrari F355 engine, then famous hands-on lifelong motorbike fanatic Hansen would construct the bike. 

Now, plenty of mates out ingesting at pubs have in all probability come to comparable agreements, however not everybody sees their new mission by way of to the top. All sorts of life circumstances usually get in the way in which. Fortunately, although, that wasn’t about to occur on Anderson and Hansen’s watch.

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Anderson got here by way of with the engine, and Hansen set to work. All instructed, he says that he had no less than 100 separate components made by specialists simply to suit his construct. The F355 engine is lovingly cradled by a Boss Hoss chassis, and the entire thing has an impressively glossy and completed look, as you possibly can see within the video.

Simply constructing the factor wasn’t sufficient for Hansen, although. The course of took round 10 years from begin to end, however he additionally took the time to have it sort accredited and absolutely highway registered in Denmark. He went by way of the whole Technischer Überwachungsverein (or TUV) technical approvals course of, had the F355 motorbike licensed, and paid for his registration paperwork and license plate like every other law-abiding motorcyclist within the nation. Except, you already know, he’d constructed the factor himself.

It’s a ardour mission that he delivered to life together with his personal two palms, and that he intends to proceed driving till he cannot trip any longer. If you are a fortunate rider, perhaps you will have a motorcycle you’re feeling that method about, too.