Today in motorcycle history, March 18, 2014

  
  

  From the Daytona Beach News-Journal dated March 18, 2014, I give you...

  ...The name of a Florida man’s “Cowasaki” motorcycle is not a misspelling.

  For nearly 10 years, Orange City resident Reese Moore has been using animal bones to make his sculptures.


  “I just love working with bones,” the 65 year-old Moore told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.


  Moore started making his "bone-art" back in 1995. He decided to try to “do something cool for Halloween” for his sons and made them an 8-foot T-Rex out of animal bones. The bike project started out more like a wager, when a local bar owner said that a bone motorcycle was impossible to make. Little did he know that the artist was too ambitious to give up. 

  Moore said. “I took that as a challenge and I told him I'll build you one for Bike Week." He added, " Making a "bone-bike" I figured I would need three to four cow skulls, two to three alligator skulls, some goat, wolf, raccoon, turtle, and pig bones. And two cow’s backs for the wheels. About four days later I called him up and told him he could pick up his motorcycle.”


  Reese Moore's latest creation is for sale at Dunn's Attic & Auction House in Ormond Beach for $55,000.

  In addition to Dunn's showroom, Moore’s choppers can be found at spots like a museum in Georgia and Ripley’s Believe It or Not. 

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