Based on a Wright R-975 Whirlwind radial engine, the Hackel-Wright Chopper is unlike any motorcycle you've seen before. It borrows components from Harley and Toyota and is built by a guy named Al ...

Radial engines were most often used in airplanes in the pre-gas turbine era. I'm no radial engine expert, but there are still some modern radials built today for enthusiast aerobatic aircraft and ...

Hailing from Germany is this custom chopper with a nine-cylinder radial engine. Despite all those pistons (or maybe because of them), it's got no exhaust, no silencers ...

Chopper powered by airplane engine . By Maxx Biker. Published Aug 18, 2008. ... Rotec Engineering builds seven-cylinder radial engines and fits them on radical motorcycles for the rich and famous.

John Levey had what might be called a radical radial idea. Radial as in old-time airplane engines. When he attended airplane mechanic school in 1989 and first worked on a radial engine, Levey ...

The radial engine powered bike is owned by Russell Ballentine, and was built by Jesse James of West Coast Choppers. The bike was debuted in the spring of 2006, soon after the fabrication was completed ...

This is the second time that James has released a new bike at the show, the first being back in ’06 with his Radial Hell bike (shown above) that is powered by a Rotec 7-cylinder radial engine ...

When Chris Hemsworth posted a picture of his Furiosa character riding a radial-engine chopper through sand dunes for the new Mad Max film, a certain corner of the internet lost their collective ...

The chopper-style bike was built around the 7-cylinder 2,800cc radial engine, which came with a power output of 110 hp and 160 lb-ft ...