I’ve always thought the big thumper enduro bikes had a lot of potential as cafe builds. I’m seeing more of them lately.
This one is from Mark Asproyerakas: I replied to another post of a KLR café photo. Thought you would like to see mine. If you want to post go ahead. I can give details of all the bikes features.
Mark
Great Stuff! Must be great in the “urban jungle”.
Regular contributor Chuck Lathe from North Carolina was kind enough to grab some shots of this modded Goldwing. I’ve always liked these builds. A lot of folks don’t know that the original Goldwings were intended as performance bikes and they only became tourers when folks started setting them up that way.
Just noticed the wwwwiiiide handlebars! Jebus!
Thanks again Chuck!
Edit: I mistakenly thought this was the “not available in the US W800 but it’s actually a W650 with a 724cc big bore kit installed… which does get the mind to thinking… 🙂
A big thank you to Rex Havoc at the Garage Project. Be sure to spend some time over there to check them out properly! They’re a well know outfit and their bikes have already been posted on the irreplaceable Pipeburn and BikeEXIF sites (please see the links section).
Thanks to Dave (AKA: pregrid) over on ADV rider for the permission to post this outstanding build.
In our correspondence he commented that: This has been a labor of love and I guess it shows. Just recently retired, this is my first build, well first BIKE build. Just got it running recently and the motor is really tired, So motor is out, paint work is being done (wait’ll you see THAT). Thanks for noticing
I’ve asked him to keep us up to date on his progress. I suspect that you’ve got some serious skills there Dave. especially for a first build.
SKILLS!
Here’s a rough youtube video that has some clips of the big NSU bison 2000 sidecars in action. They sound like cannons!
Ben sends in a link to his excellent Photo Album from his weekend travels.
He Writes in:
Hi Steve,
my name is Ben, i live in Germany (near Stuttgart in Swabia) and I did a little trip yesterday to the Technikmuseum Sinsheim. This is a museum full of cars, planes, bikes, tanks and so on. Additionally, this weekend was a bike meeting, too. Just about 1000 bikes, which distracted me from taking pictures. But I got some nice pics of the bikes from the museum, including the 1000 and 2000 ccm NSU Bisons (single cylinder!).
here is the link, feel free to use the pics, so I can donate something to your website (which i like very much)!
http://s734.photobucket.com/albums/ww341/boltgunbrother/Sinsheim/
Greetz Ben
Wow! I’ve never heard of this bike! I can only imagine the performance characteristics!
Lost an old friend recently and my heart’s not in it.. But please take some time to explore the site and the “album” links on the masthead. I’ll be back soon.
Thanks Much.
Steve Ducharme
The latest from “Donzilla”! Thanks Don!
Hey Steve;
How about a pretty girl and a 70’s KS125 Zundapp 2 stroke with only 6 miles on it and the bike belongs to NBA superstar Rick Smits?
Ride Fast, take chances,
Don Miller
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Some great info by “hilslamer” from the comments re-posted here about this unusual Honda MX bike shown in an earlier post. See info and links below. Great stuff hilslamer!  Thanks Much!
Valentino Ribi worked closely with Suzuki I think, then Honda, and then when Honda wanted Roger DeCoster to ride for them he forced them to set up the Honda with the Ribi fork.
Ribi’s patent:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=AC8tAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q&f=false
While complex, it solves many of the problems(uncontrolled dive during braking, braking forces causing binding during suspension cycling, and also can create a vast array of progressivity in spring and damping rates using a conventional damper – very similar to the linkage common to most motorcycles on the rear in some form or another.
Contrary to another comment, there was a single-shock version of this but the added weight of the linkage and the position of the shock meant it probably wasn’t much of an advantage:
http://moto.mpora.com/images/uploads/features/Ribi-Quad.jpg
Most of these problems are associated with the traditional telescopic fork native to most motorcycles with rare exceptions from Greeves, BMW, Britten, et al. IN any case, it’s cool to see a couple of pictures I’ve never seen of that fork – thanks!
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