SAMEIROS MOTORS S1

The last incarnation of the Honda Dominator engine ended up in the short lived FMX650, which Honda called the ‘Funmoto’.  With half the weight, a rear wheel bias riding position and a free breathing engine, it’s a name that is much better suited to this, Sameiros Motor’s S1.

Sameiros Motors was conceived by brothers Manolo & João in Viana do Castelo, Northern Portugal.  For years they had been dreaming of starting up their own custom bike building business, and in 2013 the dream became reality.   The Honda Dominator based S1 is the first proper Sameiros Motors project to roll out of the workshop, and is soon to be followed by the S2 which will be a Kawasaki Zephyr 750 based special.

The brothers take care of the design of the bikes themselves, and use local workshops for different parts of the build.  They stress that ‘local’ is the key, as they like to oversee every part of the build personally, so that the end result meets their self confessed perfectionist standards.

Aside from the engine, the main frame and the back wheel, nothing of the original Dominator remains.  The front wheel was swapped for an 18 ” to make the bike sit more horizontally.  The rear frame is one piece and was specially built to house the battery box, ignition, light, seat support and space for all the electrics.  The exhaust system was ​​custom made by the brothers to provide what they describe as a “spectacular sound” aided no doubt by the Wrenchmonkee’s Shorty Muffler.

The air filter box was removed and replaced with a filter cone. The fuel tank is a 1952 Terrot which was difficult to find and even harder to adapt to the frame, but after many hours of cutting welding and cursing, it went on, and looks like it was always meant to be there.  The engine itself was perfect (there’s a reason that old lump lived on for so long in the Honda range) so aside from some basic maintenance, it was left alone.

Manolo & Joao’s nickname for the S1 is, ‘Lose the Wheels’.   We think that might translate as, ‘when you stick it in first and open the throttle, it goes like stink’.  The good news is that ‘Lose the Wheels’ is up for sale, so if you fancy blatting off down the road on the back wheel of the real Funmoto, Email - sameirosmotors@gmail.com or look up Sameiros Motors on Facebook.

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D-LUCKS RBK R80

Dennis, or D as everyone knows him; is no stranger to the bike shed, but usually his work is shown on other peoples pro built machines. D is a custom painter based in Brighton, UK and works under the name D-Lucks Custom Paint. He paints for the likes of Spirit of the 70s and RB Kustoms as well as many others.

D has had an array of bikes over the last few years and grew up in both Germany and the USA, where motorcycles have always played a part in his life. For his own ride, D called upon RBK to prime their fabrication talent and spread it on thick. The donor is a BMW R80/7 from 1973, D bought it over a year ago as an honest cafed out bike to use over summer and Autumn ’13; come winter he decided he didn’t want to part with it, so chose to make it personal to him.

So the brief was set; get rid of everything on the frame that wasn’t good looking and replace or redesign the parts that didn’t live up to D’s eye for beauty, D says: “From the seriously cleaned up frame to the custom made tail end, to the new clean & streamlined front end it was all about keeping this bike looking tidy while showing off the slightly cleaned vintage engine and wheels.”

Now RBK’s Russ is a seriously talented fabricator and has no fear of the unknown; which is handy, because the tank got de-seemed and had about 2.5” taken off the bottom and staggered toward the back to give it a racy feel. Once the front and rear of the tank were sealed up, D asked for the huge fuel cap to be cut out to make way for a Harley neck.

The rear suspension was found in D’s loft, they are from a Harley he used to own. The sleek looking yokes were designed by RBK and a Dakota digi speedo completes the top shelf. Out front the bike wears a Halo headlamp… how Angelic! And the bars carry stunning ISR hand controls from Sweden with the levers shortened to visually fit. The ignition is neatly hidden away within the frame just under the bottom yoke.

Moving down the bike from the wrapped headers to the TYGA Moto Maggot end cans, we look up to the seat unit which hides away the battery and then onto the comfy area with diamond stitching; upholstered by The Trimming Centre in Brighton.

Tyres are Avon Road rider, they look great and D says they ride even better.  The internals aka the electrics, wiring, coils etc are all new and modernised with things like mini coils and Boyer digital ignition.

Did we mention that D is a painter? Well there’s no prize for guessing who was behind the bikes elegant cloak; so to round things off let’s hear from the man himself: A lot of work went into this bike but it still comes across subtle in stance and that was the aim. The paint was simple, I wanted to stay away from the 2 tone paint jobs or not paint which seem to rule the roost with cafe racers and do something more interesting. It’s a personal paint job from D-Luck’s Custom Paint Workshop in Brighton and not everyone will like it, but like I said, it’s personal and I’ve always wanted to use the slogan “humble on the rumble” which defines me quite well! also it shows that you can have some fun with your paint regardless of what sort of bike you have.

Huge appreciation goes to RB Kustoms with special mentions for Russ and Tom… and some back street paint shop called D-Lucks Custom Paint! To see more from all involved check out RB Kustoms website and D-Luck’s Facebook page

EBAY FIND: 1975 HUSQVARNA 175 GP

I love a good Husky. Especially the older models like this one, there’s just something glorious about them, I could park this in my living room just as soon as I could take it up a trail.

The Husqvarna story started all the way back in 1689, they produced muskets for the Swedish Army before expanding into bicycles, chainsaws, motorcycles, sewing machines and lawnmowers. In the 60′s and 70′s they dominated the motocross world with their lightweight, 2-stroke designs winning 14 Motocross world championships, 24 enduro world championships and 11 Baja 1000 victories.

This 1975 Husqvarna 175 GP is offered up for sale out of Buffalo, New York. The seller explains that it’s been totally rebuilt and restored by a Husqvarna specialist and looking at the photographs, it’s easy to see that they did a great job. There are 4 days left on the auction with bidding stalled at $1,275, if you’re in the market for a retro off-road belter, this might just be your ride.

Check out the auction here.

 via BIKEEXIF