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An Ork Nob astride his massive Warbike in battle

A Warbike is a single seat combat motorcycle, ruggedly built for off-road travel, utilised by the barbarian Ork race. Nearly every propulsion method imaginable has been encountered on Ork Warbikes, though most mountain overcharged Promethium or chem-called-for internal combustion engines. The majority of these heavily personalised, ramshackle modes of transportation accept two wheels, just tracked bikes and trikes take also been encountered, likewise as those modified with skids and tyre bondage.

Every Warbike will be heavily personalized, every bit each Ork regards his bicycle as his personal steed and is immensely proud of his own tinkering and decoration, or any Mekboy kustom-jobs he has had added. All Warbikes will be emblazoned with glyphs and totems. Actress spikes, horns and cycle scythes are mutual, along with larger, louder exhausts. The longer the Ork has owned his Warbike, the more adaptations he will have fabricated, with the wheel growing over time along with its rider. Hence, an Ork Nob's bike volition exist a far more impressive machine (to some other Ork) than that of a new Biker Boy's. An Ork Warboss' warbike will be larger and more impressive again; such is the natural order of Ork social club.

Ork Warbikes are ramshackle devices created from equally many parts as possible, designed and maintained by the Mekboyz to fulfill two important Ork urges: to move as fast as possible and to make every bit much noise while doing and so. The bikes are more than a method of delivering Orks into combat -- they as well serve as weapon platforms for the so-chosen Deffgunz, also sometimes called "Dakkagunz," which are heavy weapons non usually mounted on unstable bikes due to the inaccuracy that results. All Warbikes are unusually well-treated by their Ork owners, both due to their tactical power, and because of the sheer enjoyment Orks receive from their speed. In the Ork mind, the merely action exceeding the thrill of riding their mechanical steed at the enemy, side-mounted Deffgunz blazing away, is diving at the troops below in a Fighta-Bommer, unleashing its crude explosives in a hail of destruction and commotion.

During the Royal Raid on Kastorel-Novem, Ork Warbikes were a mutual sight. The Evil Sunz warband of Zhadsnark da Rippa included hundreds of them. They had just arrived on the planet and were in the process of edifice more Warbikes, Warbuggies and Wartrukks before heading to the front line on Forsarr. Zhadsnark'south Boyz fought high-speed running battles with the Tauros-mounted Elysian Drop Troops and the Land Speeders of the Raven Guard Space Marines who carried out the raid.

Armament

An Ork Speed Freek on his Warbike firing its massive Deffgunz

All Warbikes are armed with big Deffgunz, besides sometimes called "Dakkagunz," which are heavy ballistic cannons that possess a fearsome recoil. Mounting such over-powered weapons upon the relatively light Warbike chassis is typical of the Ork mentality. Whilst firing the wheel becomes difficult to control, buckling and skidding under the passenger as the bullets fly in all directions. To the Greenskin rider, this only increases the excitement. The only limit to this fun is the Deffgun's ammunition supply, which is restricted because of the vehicle'south size. Many are the Biker Boyz who have lamented the lack of ammunition forcing them to quit the field.

One "standard" feature (in as much as any Ork vehicle is standardised) of a Warbike is its frazzle. Without exception, each belches a deject of thick, oily black smoke, and once again the more smoke that an engine can churn out, the better the engine is regarded by the Biker Boyz. Some bikes go further, adding an extra smoke generator to the rear of the vehicle. Wherever they travel, Biker Boyz are surrounded past a blackness smog. Forth with the deafening roar of engines, this makes a Biker mob like shooting fish in a barrel to track. To the Orks this is not a problem, they aren't looking to hide anyway!

Kustomisations

Moto-X - A notable kustomisation found on many Warbikes is known as the Moto-10. This involves the replacement of the tyres and tracks on a Warbike with big, knobbly tyres and special spiky tracks that provide increased grip and traction, allowing the Warbike to travel at higher rates of speed beyond difficult terrain.

Ooge Xhaust - A favoured kustomisation is the addition of an Ooge Xhaust. This involves the complete customisation of the engine exhaust system of a Warbike, resulting in enormous welded-on exhaust pipes on the Warbike's frame. These exhaust pipes have been specifically designed to brand equally much racket every bit possible. Some Mekboyz are so skilled at this kustom-chore that they are able to become these exhaust systems to exhude a clinking engine annotation that sounds alike to a half-dozen Battle Cannon shells impacting into the ground. A notable side-consequence of this loud auditory assault is that it occasionally fools the enemy into assertive they are beingness attacked past an artillery bombardment, forcing them to seek cover unnecessarily.

Kult of Speed

To a greater or lesser extent, all Orks dear speed. The thrill of a unsafe wild ride into the heart of battle has a powerful effect upon an Ork's brain. Over time an Ork can become addicted to this thrill and obsessed with riding e'er faster until they become what other Greenskins call Speed Freeks. The Kult of Speed is non a formal system, just a mish-mash collection of speed-deranged Orks drawn from all the klanz to class highly mobile warbands. The Ork klan with the closest association with the Kult of Speed are the Evil Sunz. By far the greatest number of Speed Freeks come from that klan, which is already predisposed towards fast vehicles and have adopted the onetime Ork adage, "Red wunz go fasta" as their motto. The Evil Sunz have more Biker Boyz than any other klan, but all the klanz accept their ain Bikers, because all Orks like the thrill of careening into battle atop a motorised steed.

Warbikers function equally outriders and shock troops for the main horde of Greenskins in an Ork mob. The pall of frazzle and oily fume thrown up by their vehicles helps to conceal their advance, giving them a measure out of protection from enemy guns. Some Warbiker tribes take even been known to use controlled skids to communicate letters back to their fellows by sending upwardly clouds of dust. The Flaming Skull tribe goes i step farther, and are allegedly able to synchonise the skids of their bikes and then precisely that when enemy aircraft pass overhead they are greeted by trails of oily smoke and grit that spell out, "Zog Off."

Notable Biker Boyz

Wazdakka Gutsmek - Considered the greatest Ork Biker Boy of them all, Wazdakka Gutsmek sits astride a turbo-powered monstrosity that used to exist a Warbike just is now something far worse. Known as the "Bike of the Aporkalypse," this monstrous Warbike has been modified so extensively that information technology is far more powerful (and even more than dakka-looking) than a standard Warbike.

Warboss Zhardsnark, "da Rippa", astride his custom Warbike, 'da Animate being'

Warboss Gazbag - A notorious Speed Freek Warboss, Gazbag possessed a formidable Warbike known as his "Blitzbike." This bike is an absolute monster. Although repeatedly stolen, patched up, kustomised and sold on, the warbike's core is the same. Its hugely overcharged engines and free energy-shooting kustom dakkablastas return its rider a force of mortiferous destruction.
Warboss Zhardsnark, "da Rippa" - Zhardsnark is a grizzled veteran of numerous warzones and countless battles, not only against the forces of the Imperium of Man, but other xenos races and his own kind. Zhardsnark was one of the more experienced and powerful Ork Warbosses on the Ork Earth of Kastorel-Novem at the time of the Imperial raid on that planet, and his large Evil Sunz warband was in the thick of the fighting. For an Ork Warboss he is lightly armoured, a trait of the Evil Sunz Bikers, who prefer speed and mobility over armoured protection. Zhardsnark's sobriquet refers to his personal weapon of selection, "da Rippa." It is a cutom-built, gauntlet-mounted, armoured buzzsaw. This Warboss' favorite combat tactic is to hack at the enemy with "da Rippa" while making high speed bulldoze-bys on his big, fully customised, half-tracked Warbike, chosen "da Animal."

Ordo Xenos Departmento Analyticus Technical Specifications

The Ordo Xenos has not yet released the technical specifications for this vehicle.

Sources

Codex: Orks (4th Edition), pp. 46, 60
Codex: Orks (third Edition), pg. xiv
Imperial Armour Volume Eight - Raid on Kastorel-Novem, pp. 28-29, 38, 61, 143-146
White Dwarf 192 (UK), "Ork Warbikes"
Forge Earth: Ork Nob Warbikes
Forge Earth: Ork Warboss on Warbike
Games Workshop Online Catalogue: Ork Warbiker Mob