That 10 cylinder Porsche GT sounds epic!
“Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed” opens October 12, 2013 at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
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mercredi 11 septembre 2013
Custom Triumph Bonneville EFI by Ton-up Garage
Custom motorcycles are getting popular among Portuguese. And now, it’s become their culture and lifestyle. Recently, a new custom motorcycle Triumph Soul Train is built by Portuguese customizer from “Ton-up Garage”. This bike is based on motorcycle Triumph Bonneville EFI.
The Portuguese preach the culture, which was a golden age in the 50′s and 80′s. They love the classics, but also support the elegance and style.
Triumph Soul Train Details:
Donor: triumph bonneville efi 2008
Customer: French motorcyclist
Goal: to build a custom designed in the style of urban pearl
Motor and electronics: without modifications (engine repainted as the lid)
Stock exhaust system termolita
Customize wings, painted in brown color
Double brown saddle
Brass lamp housing, yellow lens, LED taillight, turn signals miniature
Small speedometer
Steering wheel and handles LSL
Kit painted in brown, powder coating wheels in black
Old school rubber
Rear shock Ohlins, progressive fork springs too Ohlins
Customer: French motorcyclist
Goal: to build a custom designed in the style of urban pearl
Motor and electronics: without modifications (engine repainted as the lid)
Stock exhaust system termolita
Customize wings, painted in brown color
Double brown saddle
Brass lamp housing, yellow lens, LED taillight, turn signals miniature
Small speedometer
Steering wheel and handles LSL
Kit painted in brown, powder coating wheels in black
Old school rubber
Rear shock Ohlins, progressive fork springs too Ohlins
from bikeglam
DCM #1
Seems like we’re on a bit of an NX650 Dominator theme this month, but it’s nice to see that they all look completely different, showing that this platform is a lot more interesting and flexible as a donor that you’d think. Like Andrew Greenland’s work, this scrambler from Seb of Dark Custom Motorcycles is pure retro, taking this mid eighties Honda and retro-styling it to look like a proper 70s dirtbike, built when ‘scramblers’ scrambled, and ‘crossers’, er, …crossed. But, the styling is all Seb’s own, and we think it’s damn pretty.
Seb started riding when he was around 12, having been given a go on a mini-motorcrosser by his god mother. From that day he was hooked and wanted to ride off-road, but his parents just weren’t into it, so his desires were suppressed until a few years ago when bikes started to turn his head again, but this time as an adult.
As well as riding, Seb decided he wanted to build his own machine, so despite not having very much mechanical knowledge he searched the furms for advice before diving in, head-first, with his first project – a dirt tracker, based on the reliable and affordable Honda NX650, also known as the Dominator in the UK market.
It was a bit harder than Seb thought. “It could appear quite easy to transform a bike from the outside, I mean ‘you only have to switch the tank to another one’, ‘only have to switch the exhaust to those one’, ‘just change the wheel size’.. But in fact, to change one simple part, you often have to adapt pretty much everything, and sometimes you can have real headaches! If you change the tank, you have to look at the postion of the new tank, then adapt the seat, take care of the fuel lines and gas flow… And then if you change the exhaust you have adapt the carburation set-up… If you change the wheel size, you have to take care of the forks, and the brake system… And so on… Thankfully, a friend of mine, Alain, helped me a lot by doing some technical works and giving me great advice. Finally, the result is here and I’m quite happy about how it’s come out…”
It’s certainly a very worthy effort for a first time build. All we need to know, is; “does she do skids, mister?”
See more from Seb and DCM on their Facebook page.
via The Bike Shed
1971 HONDA CB450 BOBBER BY SCOTT H
This is a really clean looking 1971 Honda CB450 Bobber by Scott H. I love the shot exhaust pipes on the build along with the really nice dropped split tank. The lines on the bike are perfect and the lower tank gives its a really nice aggressive look. The tanks have been totally built from scratch by Benji at BCR along with the sweet looking exhaust system. So much work has gone into this build with only the pegs, headlight and rear drum assembly still being stock.
The satin finish on the grey of the tank looks amazing and it’s not often you see a white leather seat on a bike but it works really well on this build. It’s one cool looking bike and I’d say the finest Bobber I’ve featured on Moto Verso.
The aggressive look is finished off by a really sweet set of wheels and tyres perfect for the bike. Woody’s Wheel Works built the wheels using Buchannan spokes, Harley rims and Shinko tires and they have done one fantastic job with these. The project took 10 months to complete which is pretty good to say it was only worked on at night. The bike was built for the Louisville Vintage Motorworks - Mod’s vs. Rockers show and it won Best Rocker and Best in Show which is really cool. It also took home the Best Japanese Bike from the Beatersville show the following day.
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