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Tall Swedish custom motorcycle This article is about the motorcycle. For the body part, see toe.

Bigtoe is a motorcycle that once held the Guinness World Record in the category of Tallest Rideable Motorcycle, bearing a maximum height of 7.5 feet (2.3 metres) and a top speed of 62 mph. It weighs 3,600 pounds. Tom Wiberg, from Sweden, built it in 1998 with a Jaguar V12 engine.

The title has passed to Dream Big, a bike built by Greg Dunham in 2005. Wiberg also holds the record for the smallest rideable motorcycle, with Smalltoe.

See also

References

  1. "Tallest Rideable Motorcycle". Guinness World Records (on Internet Archive). Archived from the original on 2006-03-16. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  2. "A mean machine!". Birmingham Evening Mail. 24 November 1998. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  3. Haynes, V. Dion (14 January 2007). "Showoffs Rev Their Engines". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  4. "Tallest Rideable Motorcycle". Guinness World Records. 2009. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  5. Grandell, Tommy (5 November 2003). "Size matters to Swedish motorcycle builder". The Associated Press. Retrieved 2009-05-18.

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