jeudi 21 novembre 2013
after N°1 : THE GLOBAL PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD 2013 DEUS
SECOND PLACE
MILAN - FILIPPO BASOLO
The motorbike was an Honda Nx 650 Dominator, our first target was to make rear part with height adjustable to obtain a smoother line, so I even decided to make the tank in composite by zero, for the same homogeneity concept. A touch of aggressiveness comes from the front fork, taken from a 1995 KTM LC4, treated in anodic coating.I made the sub frame for the front beam, to keep in as close as possibile to the fork. I made the side panels, the rear fender is normally a front cross fender. I decided to paint everything in black shiny and embossed to have semplicity, the colour of the tank results from a mix of advanced colours, with base metal green and kandy orange, obtaining something like a brown kandy very strange!Last touch, the seat made by me, and completed in KTM material, and the exhaust system, made by Fresco Exhaust.
THIRD PLACE
INDONESIA - TIMBOEL GARAGE
The inspiration came from the Honda Astrea 800 and a concept of boardtracker collaborated with custom machine. A plunger suspense innovation started with cutting the rear fender area and the seat was installed with frames that function as rigid curved tail frame with the addition of a pipe sleeve is used to swing the swing arm gripping with his original Yamaha Alfa rear shock as intermediary, make it a little bit like motor BMW R25. Girder fork front view selected to command the front with 4 plate clutches, and adopted the classic Harley Davidson seat that accompanied by drag style made the driver's stoop. By using 325-18 size of wheel with Champ 250-18 Rim, a handmade aluminium spokes with custom front hub and Kawasaki Ninja Disc brake all is covered by a beautiful Traditional Balinese Floral carving and support a concept of Old School Bobber.
The standard engine as well as supporting Carburetor Honda tiger, as a supporter of bolt and nut contrived lathe custom made from brass and custom exhaust hand made as a supporting appearance. Use Darim leather upholstery. This is the "Jabrix" modifier works by Timboel garage with his painting and took Engrave Bagoes Customized by Glorious metal work
FOURTH PLACE
INDONESIA - LOWO ABANG ART CYCLE
I started to build the frame out of Iron pipes and then had the springer fork custom hand made. All the remaining spare parts such as fender, tank, head light… have been custom hand made by myself. The whole concept started around the engine JAP LONDON 350Cc of the year 1928. On the engine only the gear box have been custom with spare parts from BSA 350Cc.
FIFTH PLACE
INDONESIA - BACKYARD CUSTOMS
Inspired by Café Racer the Backyard Custom MC start working on Honda GL Pro Neotech 1997/160cc single cylinder head using twinport exhaust and custom stainlees with Avon speedmaster tire for the front and rear tire and Avon MKII swing arm rests with Suzuki GT 185 and shockbreaker YSS 34. Tank and upholstery and electric box using alumunium materials
“Bone” is a project born in winter 2012/2013. We wanted to create a motorbike that could show these 3 elements: English style, Essential and Rebel.
The base is a Jawa 350 twin cylinder two stroke, born in Czech Republic in 1975, found in a site on sell, bought, taken at home, and immediately put on the work bench in Fabio’s garage! As you can see, all dispensable has been removed, following the trend café racer, and “beauty and rebel”.
Let’s imagine in the 60’s when, after a fight between Teddy Boy in a bar at the outskirts of Derby, the flashing lights of police are closing. So, let’s run away! Blinking lights, keys, rear light, mirrors aren’t necessary! What is it necessary? Front beam, good brakes, rapid throttle and capacious tank! The engine has been serviced, the electric system made new, front fork is modified, the rear side of the frame is modified to install a single seat , tyres are changed, and the handlebar is a new, more “racing” one.
‘76 Kawasaki KH500 - ‘Kermit’
In a world of sterile, bubble-wrapped motorcycle design that puts government regulations and usability above all else it's easy to forget that once upon a time, motorcycle design was an entirely different beast. Take, for the sake of argument, the rather ‘charismatic’ Kawasaki 500cc triples from the 1970s. Put simply, they were an air-cooled three cylinder sportsbike with two exhausts on one side and one on the other, barely-there brakes, a penchant for death wobbles at high speed and the ability to flip itself rubber-side-up with any decent twist of their throttles. They were also bloody quick. So quick, in fact, that journalists of the day refused to believe Kawasaki's quarter mile claims until they themselves managed to replicate them, thus proving that the bike was actually the quickest production motorcycle of its day. Even the legendary Plymouth Hemi Cudas would eat their dust. Cue this immaculate and very green rocket from the crypt, Craig Johnston's Kawasaki KH500 - aka ‘Kermit’.
“Kermit is a 76 KH500 has quite a long history as a café racer,” says Craig. “The bike was first built up 20 years ago by a good mate of mine, but due to the whole family/life thing taking over, he decided to offload the bike. So for the last 18 years, Kermit has been my play thing. I rode the bike as it was for several years until things started to break. In the pre-eBay days, sourcing Kwaka triple parts was nigh on impossible locally, so the bike was parked in my fathers damp shed and pretty much forgotten about while I riding my other bikes.
12 months ago, while giving my father a hand to clear some junk out of his shed, I rediscovered the KH and brought it home with the idea of restoring it. 10 plus years in a damp shed being used as a saw horse hadn't done the bike any favours; the engine was locked up, tank rusted out, fairing cracked, and polished alloy and chrome parts were in a very bad state. I spent a good six months walking around the bike, planning what was needed and what I wanted to create. In its original guise it had been very highly strung, and was barely street-able - pretty much needing 5000rpm to even get off the line with some nasty detonation issues. This time around I wanted something that was a lot more civilized and practical. This bike would be getting a lot of use, so it had to be able to be run hard on pump fuel.”
“I removed the engine in January and dropped it off for a full rebuild. This included the crank, which received slotted Vesrah rods and Wossner pistons. While the cases were split we also rebuilt the gearbox. Meanwhile, I finished stripping the bike. The frame went out for sandblasting and powdercoating, but this time in the more traditional black as against the green that my mate had painted it previously. Then the new SS Ducati fairing and screen arrived, and they along with the tank were sent off for painting.
The bike was finally ready for the road in June but it was soon evident that detonation was going to be an issue when it was pushed, there was not enough squish and too much compression. We decked the barrels and reshaped the combustion chambers, dropping the compression down to 145psi. These changes made a huge difference and now the bike can be ridden as they were intended.”
“Kermit is no show bike and has racked up nearly 2000km in the last 4 months. It's a barrel of fun to ride and as a member of Perth Cafe Racers we live by the motto “take the long road home”. So do we, Craig. So do we.
Photos by Ryan at RSK Photography Perth
[Special thanks to Rex from Garage Project Motorcycles] from PIPEBURN
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