Well if you’re an ex-F1 pilot with 24 F1 races under your belt like Brazil’s Tarso Marques, that something could be possibly the last thing you’d expect. Maybe something possibly as far away from race cars with all their sophistication and electronics like our feature bike you’ve already checked out and given your personal yea or nay to. Yeah, this bike could be a polarizing custom to a lot of readers, but that’s what makes it so good.

 

  Although this bike is supposedly designed by Tarso himself as part of his Tarso Marques Concepts which appears to be a design company out of San Paulo, Brazil, I would venture this was actually built by Todd Anglani’s Cooper City Florida, shop called After Hours Bikes. I say this even though I don’t know for absolutely sure, but After Hours Bikes has previously built a couple of their absolutely one-off rides for him already. We featured three of the AHB bikes on Barnett’s Magazine Online previously including one article with Tarso sitting on another of his After Hours bike as the lead photo.

 

   There’s a big difference between those previous bikes and Tarso’s new one and that involves the mistaken rat rod look of Todd’s other bikes. Rust is replaced with a heaping helping of good old bling. I’m again guessing that since Tarso lays claim to having designed this bike through his company Tarso Marques Concepts. He probably involved himself in the somewhat spit polish and shiny finish design aspect and Todd and the boys surely handled the grunt work.

 

 Just like all the other After Hours Bikes we’ve featured, this is also totally rideable once you’ve pumped up the air shocks, front and rear, with a high degree of high tech parts and pieces throughout the build. The leading link forks are their own piece of mechanical art and you won’t find those available in any Drag catalog that’s for sure. I’m sure you’ve noticed when it’s sitting on the deck in Jack Cofano’s photos that the wheels are taller than the drilled I-beam-style top tube. That’s a low bike and some big wheels. All of the I-beam frame members are made from scratch and I don’t mean I-beam scratch. Todd makes every bit of that I-beam out of flat stock and there’s a lot of fabrication and hard work that goes into each frame member before it becomes an up and running frame. Tarso even got his two-cents into the top tube’s I- beam with his company’s TMC logo cutt into the beam between the speed holes.

 

   Taking another leap of faith, there’s a lot of vintage hot rod touches scattered throughout this build. Things like the aforementioned drilled out I-beam construction, the classy MOONEYES oil tank, and a 2-into1 exhaust that looks like it might be from a small block Chevy in a fender-less Ford roadster. All nice hot rod touches that appeal to the gear head in all of us. As far as Tarso’s and Todd’s use of those brightly colored big wheels, well, there’s no way in hell you’re ever going to miss them. Besides, any of Todd’s bikes are not for the meek anyway and that’s what makes them outrageously cool. It’s a whole new type of bike that appeals to me in the strangest way and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

 

 If you’d like to find out more about Tarso Marques Concepts, punch up his website http://www.tarsomarques.com.br/ and be sure to hit the little American flag in the corner for English if you don’t happen to understand Portuguese.

 

  To find out more about the always intriguing Todd Angliani and After Hours Bikes, check out his web site at http://www.afterhoursbikes.com/.