MotoHome - hotel on 2 wheels or mad traveler

As adventure bike riders, there are only a few options when it comes to accomodations. Either open up the wallet for the comfort and luxury of a hotel, motel, B&B, etc., or carry your own tent/hammock/lean-to and “rough it.” What if you could have both? But 26-year-old Californian student Jeremy Carman has created one of the strangest two-wheeled projects i’ve ever seen; The MotoHome

The base bike is a ’93 Honda CBR1000F, but Carman’s made a few changes to make the bike more capable on challenging terrain (and to take the weight of the cabin at the rear). In essence, he’s replaced the entire front end with one from a Honda CR500 – and has redesigned the rear frame to support the bed cabin and storage compartment. The main change is a modified swingarm, which is much, much longer than the standard one – but still houses the original rear wheel. Clever, right?

He’s managed to keep the weight down, building the cabin from an aluminium frame and covering it in fiberglass. It is 183cm long, about 100cm high and around 86cm – and yet it weighs only 32kg (unladen). Altogether, the MotoHome weighs about 280kg – the same as a big Cruiser. Here’s a video of his creation in action…