Built by Eddie Meeks of EAM Studios, Greensboro, NC, the Quantum Leap is less a motorcycle than a proclamation from its creator. The 13″-wide fixed front wheel gets engine power, while the thinner rear wheel handles the steering. Because the front wheel does not turn, Eddie was able to extend the sexy bodywork, which rides atop the tubular frame housing a Patrick Racing V-Twin and shiny handmade components, including a kickstand sculpted from copper-plated steel.

“It runs,” says Simon Solomon, Meeks’ longtime financial partner and owner of the USD 250,000 Quantum Leap, “but in the same way concept cars do.” That is to say, one should run it with caution. “In the four years it took to make,” adds Solomon, “it quickly crossed over from functional motorcycle to a work of art.”

Meeks logged about 2,100 hours on the Quantum Leap, developing a hydraulic steering system for the rear wheel and incorporating other distinctive touches such as front and rear air shocks and nickel and copper body plating—no chrome. Meeks made more than 500 of the bike’s components.