Budnitz Bicycles N°3

Budnitz Bicycles creates the lightest, fastest, and most elegant city bikes in the world. Custom built for each customer, our handmade titanium belt drive bicycles set the standard for exceptional beauty, speed, and comfort.

Meet the new Budnitz Model No.3, the latest evolution of our ultimate all-around city bicycle.

Completely re-engineered from the ground up, the world’s best go-anywhere, do-anything bicycle for fast and fun city riding just got even better.

The new No.3 twin-tube single arc cantilever frame features elegant double curved down tubes that increases lateral stiffness for speed, while absorbing road shock for comfort. Available titanium frame weighs just 3.6 pounds.

Equally adept at jumping curbs, cutting corners, and tearing through gravel alleyways, No.3 is also a wonderful bicycle for lazy rides down dirts roads to the lake and taking it easy in the park.

Big 29-inch wheels and up to 2.35-inch tires, combined with a long wheelbase and aggressive geometry, make the New No.3 equally at home on pavement, cobblestones, rough asphalt, and dirt.

Clean and silent carbon belt drive weighs a third of a traditional bike chain and won’t get your pants dirty. Your choice of singlespeed, or up to 14-speeds and a massive 526% gear range in a high-tech internal hub from Rohloff or Shimano.

Built by hand with proprietary Budnitz titanium riser handlebars, seatpost, stem, badges, and some of the greatest bicycle components in the world from Paul Components, Formula, Thompson, and more.

If you’re going to own just one bicycle for the rest of your life, choose Model No.3.

Available in limited quantities.

FRAME

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• Frame

  Budnitz No.3 Titanium or Steel Cantilever Frame.

• Fork

  Budnitz No.3 Titanium or Steel Half-Crown Fork

COMPONENTS

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• Handlebar

  Budnitz Titanium Riser Bar or Flat Bar

• Stem

  Budnitz Titanium Stem, 80mm-130mm

• Seatpost

  Budnitz Titanium Seatpost

• Headset

  Budnitz Silver or Black Alloy HS-1S Ultra Polish Headset

• Saddle

  Budnitz & Brooks Saddle Options

• Pedals

  VP Pedal Option

DRIVETRAIN

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• Transmission

  Gates carbon belt drive & single speed Budnitz hub
  Gates carbon belt drive & 11-speed Shimano Alfine internal hub
  Gates carbon belt drive & 11-speed Shimano Alfine Di2 internal hub
  Gates carbon belt drive & 14-speed Rohloff internal hub

• Crankset

  daVinci Design handmade in USA

• Brake Levers

  Paul Components Love Levers (USA) | Formula Carbon Fiber Optional (Italy)

• Brakes

  Avid BB7 mechanical disc brakes | Formula Hydraulic Brakes Optional (Italy)

• Bottom Bracket

  Bushnell USA Featherweight EBB & square-taper sealed bearing bottom bracket by Token

• Cable Housing

  Yokozuna Internal housing (Japan) | Formula Kevlar Hose Optional (Italy)

WHEELS

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• Rims

  Budnitz XR1 Featherweight in matte black, 700c

• Hubs

  Budnitz XH1 Featherweight in high-polish silver

• Tires

  Schwalbe 29-inch Big Apple 2.0" or Marathon Supreme 1.6", Germany

ACCESSORIES (OPTIONAL)

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• Security

  Pitlock locking wheel skewers, seat post clamp & stem cap. Abus mini U-lock, Germany.

• Fenders

  Budnitz Handmade wood fenders | Budnitz Titanium Fenders

• Bell

  Bellini bell in real brass. Ding!

• Rack

  Tubus Titanium rear racks, made in Germany

SIZING & GEOMETRY

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JONATHAN REA’S CB TRACKER

Spending your time at full chat, knee pressed into the Tarmac of the finest racetracks on the planet is pretty exhausting stuff. Jonathan Rea is currently fourth in the World Superbike Championship standings and has every chance of making it third; if that pesky little Italian Marco Melandri doesn’t get in the way. When the champagne fugg has lifted after the season finale in Qatar, Rea will no doubt be looking forward to heading home and wheeling this little beauty out of the garage for some well deserved downtime.

Having seen the Pata Honda WSBK team’s PR man and his IDP Moto built Honda NX650 Dominatrix, Rea fancied a custom of his own so commissioned the guys to work their magic on a 1975 CB550K. The donor had been imported from Colorado and for a 40 year old machine was in fine fettle so attentions could be turned to style and specs.

Once stripped bare the subframe chopped and looped before being reunited with the frame and swingarm at Redditch Shotblasters who applied a thick and lustrous coat of black powder. Ratty and gnarled fasteners were replaced but remainder received a fresh zinc plating. When your customer is used to titanium and magnesium everything scrimping on the nuts and bolts wasn’t an option.

Dropping the front wheel from 19″ to 18″ not only looks more balanced but allows greater tyre choice; for a vintage style Rea went for Firestone Deluxe Champions. Gloss black rims and hubs with stainless spokes is the proper way of wheel building, allowing for future spoke tuning if required. The original rear shocks were replaced with new black units, and the original chrome bars swapped for satin black Renthal 758s.

Exhaust perfectionists Co-Built in Oxfordshire made up the link pipes to utilise the original headers, mating them to MotoGP mufflers. At the sucking end, an old British Touring Car was liberated of its velocity stacks which now reside on the four rebuilt carbs.

The engine was painted silver and cases polished which looks great against all the black. Spidey took care of the paintwork, leaving room for Purple Fayze to work her airbrush magic over the white pearl, ghosting multiple JR logos prior to plenty of coats of lacquer. Brand new Honda badges finish the job.

A new speedo, headlight and bullet indicators are relatively standard fair which leaves the paint job and engine to do the talking. Steve Adams fashioned a new seat pan to sit on the new subframe, with a white stitched synthetic leather saddle to compliment the colour scheme.

In case you’re wondering, this is not some show pony that sits in Rea’s trophy room gathering dust. It has completed a lap of the IOM TT course during a parade at the Classic TT this summer. As this is at the end of Rea’s driveway don’t be surprised to see a bit of retro glitz flashing past you on the mountain course at some point.

IDP Moto are doing a fine job at bringing current racing superstars and worn out heroes to the custom scene with a range of smart looking machines. Watch this space as there will be more from the Silverstone based team coming soon.

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Ford RS – A wild history

Sit back and enjoy this full length documentary investigating the captivating story of Ford Rallye Sport, best known as Ford RS.

Starting from the very beginning, this 90-minute doco relives the glory of the Ford RS badge, and explains how it fits into the long and impressive history of Ford.

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It’s a wonderful, in-depth piece which goes into great detail explaining the colorful history of the beloved Rallye Sport name. It’s a fantastic little history lesson too, and we hope you enjoy it.

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HOW TO TURN A ROYAL ENFIELD INTO A RACEBIKE

By Wesley Reyneke | Rather Be Riding

With just 29 horses on tap, the Royal Enfield Continental GT is not the most likely of racebikes. But what it lacks in power, it makes up for in old-school charm.

Fresh from the factory, the GT is a dead ringer for the home-built cafe racers of old, in a more modern package. Sure, the bike is a little outgunned by today’s standards, but it has potential—as the French RE dealer Tendance Roadster has just shown.

Tendance boss Guillaume Tiraud is a fan of the Iron Bikers races, held on a circuit near Paris. Fleets of Royal Enfield Bullets battle with 1950s Norton Manxes, BSA Goldstars and Matchless G50s.

“Now we have the Continental GT in the range,” says Guillaume, ” my chances of passing the British bikes on the track are even higher than with the Bullet!”

In the handling stakes, Guillaume is pretty chuffed with the stock Continental GT frame, which was designed by Harris Performance in the UK. “It’s just perfect for race use.” he reckons. “Precise and easy to handle.” The Paioli gas-charged shocks, Brembo brakes and Excel rims help things along too.

So Guillaume decided to transform his run-of-the-mill GT into a race bike. Starting at the front, he took a Norton Manx fairing and reshaped it to fit, via a custom-made stainless steel bracket. He then installed a new set of clip-ons that sit much lower than the stock setup.

You can get the conversion in kit form, at a cost of EUR845 (around $1,000) and installing it is a four-hour job for a home mechanic.

The engine desperately needed a boost, so Guillaume has also upgraded the camshaft and valves, and remapped the fuel injection. A stainless steel exhaust system gives a little extra kick.

Guillaume’s named his GT “Vitesse”—French for “speed”—and reckons it’ll be the fastest bike in its class at the Iron Bikers events next year.

If you’ve got a Continental GT in your garage—and why not, it’s only $7,200 brand new—we reckon the Tendance Roadster kit is a bargain.

Is it enough to tempt you into the Royal Enfield fold?

Tendance Roadster website | Instagram | Facebook | Images by Daniel Beres.

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