Monster Bikes

Oversize motorcycles known as ‘Monster Bikes’ are custom made powerful pieces of coveted machinery. Often they are created with large monster sized V Twin V8 engines or single cylinder motorcycles.

These bikes demonstrate impressive girth and an often hyper-conspicuous V8 engine. In the beginning, monster bikes often had grand amounts of thermal tape around the manifold and upper exhaust as well as ad hoc heat shields that appeared to be reused from other applications – this gave them a ‘gnarly’ frankenstein-esque ‘monster’ look.

Browse the pages on this site to learn more about famous Monster Bikes such as the Big Brute, Drysdale, Boss Hoss, Cheetah, Lightning, and Thunderbolt. You’ll find full lists of specifications, history, and photos.

We are also starting two new sections to this site, and we encourage you to discuss your thoughts and questions and answers and ideas regarding researching, purchasing, and renting in our Monster Bikes Discussion Forum or posting or viewing additional pictures of Monster Bikes in our Monster Bikes Image Gallery.

We hope you enjoy these pictures of tremendously impressive Monster Bikes. The vast majority of our photos come from user submissions, so if you have photos you would like to share, please let us know by sending us a message using our Contact Us page. We always appreciate receiving new images from enthusiasts like yourself.