Hearse power: Bike with a difference for sale as a final ticket to ride

THE highway to Heaven never looked this cool. This bike with a lot of “hearse power” belongs to Peadar Byrne, coach builder and motorbike enthusiast who thought that, for people like himself, it’s the only way to go.

Peadar, from Dundalk, Co Louth, has been mad about bikes since he was 15. Then last year, at the age of 47, he decided to combine his biking skills with his job of building coaches and hearses at his father’s business in the town.

“I had been thinking about doing it for a while and it took me about a year to get it finished, working after hours. The body of the hearse is fibre-glass and I used a Yamaha B Max 1200 with it, as it has a water-cooled engine and can easily cope with slow speeds and won’t overheat.”