Month: May 2014

Latest Bonneville Build from macco Motors


Yes this  is a bit of advertisement/product announcment but long time readers know that when I get high quality pics of a custom bike I’m happy to be “persuaded”  into an announcment for some shots.  On this one I’d do a few things differently based entirely on my personal tastes but it’s an sweet build.  Oh and as an enthusiastic amateur photographer my compliments on the images.  Very well lit.   Thank you Jose and Tito for the shots!

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Here we go again!!
here you have the brief and specs of our Triumph Bonneville T100, named “The Lizard King”. I send you a wetransfer with pics.

Photos by Sergio Ibarra from Semimate (www.semimate.com) Please, mention him.
Thanks for sharing. Appreciate your work.
Because of the succes of our first Triumph Bonneville build, Dusty Pearl, most customers contacted us to build a Dusty Pearl for them. But as bikes builders, we believe that every bike must be unique and exclusive. So, we´re commisioned by Christian from London to build him a Dusty, but we made an agreement to make “The Lizard King”. And this is why we call these Bonnies, the “Dusty Serie´s” Bonnies.

We started to work in the previous photoshop design. The idea was to create a comfortable, stylish Triumph, but rude at the same time. We try to mix performance and style in our work, focusing in harmony of shapes and respect teh essence of the bike.
We got a new paint fuel tank scheme, alloy and black matt, enhancing the muscle shape of the fuel tank.
We mounted 1″ Biltwell tracker handlebars, wider and lower than standard, Thruster Biltwell grips, single centered speedo and short polished racing style clutch and brake levers, plus a Bates headlight with grille accommodated from a Triumph TR6 car, in the front of the bike.
In order to improve the performance of the suspension, we replace the rear forks with a Hagon Nitro pair and put progressive Hagon new springs front.

Chopped subframe and new Maccomotors seat for two, just as Christian wanted.
New K&N air filter and Metzeler Tourance 110 front and 140 rear, plus BC Predators exhausts painted black, and these others improvements complete the custom list:

– New front fiber mudguard
– Rear chopped Thruxton mudguard
– New turn signals and rear light
– Custom side panels
– New paint
– Alloy footrests
– Anticaloric wrap

– Predators BC exhausts

All pics and updates of our work in www.maccomotors.com and in our FB fan page.

Regards

Jose & Tito

Think I’ll be popping back up a bit.


Not one word before I give a long overdue and huge THANK YOU for all the outside help I received and ESPECIALLY to Sean for giving up his time and energy to keep things alive and thriving on here in my prolonged absence. Considering how little actual support I’ve given him during my hiatus I can’t express enough how massively grateful and appreciative I truly am. Sean is now part of the DNA and his welcome mat is welded to the floor. As they say, mi casa su casa.

Now I won’t rehash all the reasons personal and financial for my absence suffice it to say they those distractions are still somewhat of a daily reality. I’m just getting a lot better at ignoring/managing (but mostly ignoring) them. The seat of the DR650 and the RD350 are familiar to me again and I think motorcycles are solidly back on my list of daily philosophical considerations.

All of which brings me to the bike that sort of snapped me out of my slumber… as they say… stay tuned.. 😛

kawasaki w650


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The Kawasaki W650 is a retro standard motorcycle made by Kawasaki between 1999-2008. The “W” in its model name makes a historic reference to Kawasaki’s W1, W2 and W3 models, manufactured between 1967 and 1975. The W650 was superseded by the Kawasaki W800, which to the dismay of enthusiasts is only sold in the UK.

The “nostalgic” W650 Kawasaki is a Bonneville-BSA clone resembling the British motorcycles of the early 1960s but replacing the vibrating pushrod engines of the British twin-cylinders with a distinctive shaft-driven bevel-gear overhead camshaft, similar to those found on 1970s Ducati singles and V-twins.


Best,
Saeed Mirfattah

 

KAWASAKI ZEPHYR 750


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This is my  LADY from 1993.

When I was young, I was in love with this new motorcycle,

but I had not the money for buying it.  

Now I am nearly 50 years old and last year I saw the red lady

in the internet and I was in love again J

I bought it , spend a lot of time for “ great service “ and now

she looks wonderful for me !

More photos @ https://www.facebook.com/harald.einheuser/photos

best regards

HARALD EINHEUSER