It'll knock you down and steal your lunch

[tugrik]

So, I'm taking the already-somewhat-brutish GS dualsport to Burning Man this year. I need to deck it out, desert-warrior style. Think 'mad max on a motorbike'. I've already got an older helmet I will be putting a supersize mohawk-and-feathers on, as well as doing up the tankbag/panniers in old leather scraps, straps, and fur. I may even be able to scare up a baseball-bat scabbard or other 'self defence device' holders to mount in the right places, complete with thong-straps bearing beads, small animal skulls, and the like.

This is a plea put out to my creative friends: help me think up things I can do to the bike to pull off a credible post-apocalyptic presence attack. Be it just a few 'you should try (...)' written suggestions, or a sketch, or whatever ... please, pitch me a few ideas! :) The only real limitation is that I need to keep it road-legal, so no welding on giant swords of death sticking out the front.

This weekend I'm going to re-watch all the road-warrior-esque movies in the house's DVD collection. It shouldn't be all that hard to find some cool ideas. If done right, driivng up on the bike will look like I had just rolled in from Bartertown.

Comments

[paka.livejournal.com]

There are a number of companies out there that make plastic replica animal skulls, but all I could find quickly was http://anatomical.com/cat_disp.asp?CAT_NBR=2&SUB_CAT_NBR=5&sid=GT426.

My idea would be buying cheap fur commercially and wrapping it with leather bindings about the handlebars as much as you can without fouling the handbrakes, etc; and attaching some sort of animal skull to the fairing. If you can get paint that you can remove later, you could try painting markings on the bike.