Update: (missed a good pic) Very Nice Low Budget Chop From the Netherlands.

More proof that you don’t need big money or big horsepower to build a cool ride.

Bjorn Writes in:

He hello my name is Bjorn I’m 20 years old and I’m from the Netherlands. I’m a regular visitor of your site. And i love it especially the frequent updates i digg. I have a picture of my motorcycle as well, hopefully you like it.

I bought it as a stock Honda shadow vt600 but right from the start i knew I was going to chop it. Because i dont like stock stuff in general. I bought this Honda because i wanted a vtwin but because of legislation here in the Netherlands you cannot ride a bike with more than 25 kW (34 hp) if you are under 21 years old. since i was 19 at the moment i had to buy a bike with this power restriction and this bike has 34 hp stock.
I tried to make as much of the components myself from the handlebars to the stainless steel exhaust, sidecovers and everything in between, because i didn’t want to buy shit out of catalogs because everybody can do that. I could use the lathe and mill at my school to machine parts. And my little brother is a welder so he helped me out with that. Lots of time went into making a foot clutch and a tank shift. It worked in the end but after some test riding i found it to dangerous to drive here in Holland with the million roundabouts, so i changed it back to stock controls. I also had an open exhaust but i found it to loud so i tried making a muffler with a design like i had never seen on a other bike. It works very well actually. Also made my version of a sissybar.

I use it as my daily driver to school, work, friends you name it. i now you didn’t ask for this whole story haha, but me personally, I’m always interested in the story behind a bike. At the moment the bike is nearly done, the riding season here is at its end so i can put the finishing touches on it like a muffler decoration and new pegs. I cant wait to start a new project.

greetings from the Netherlands!

Bjorn

 

One More Fantastic GS Wanderlust Shot.

Thanks to EnderTheX over on the ADV Rider Board for these last two GS pics.

GS800 Wanderlust.

This bike would be wasted on me.  With the “wife and kid” lifestyle that I’m currently in I don’t have the ability fully appreciate what it’s capable of.  And to be honest it’s a bit to “high techy” for my usual tastes.  I like em simple and rugged.  But all that aside,  I still want one!

Reader Ride. Triumph Wanderlust.

Garrick Anson sends in this nice panorama.

He Writes in:

Been subscribed to your site for a while now, and figured I would send in one of my photos. This is my ’99 Triumph Tiger just below the summit of Equinox Mountain outside of Manchester Vermont. This was taken on the 4th of July weekend this year during a 1600 mile road trip I took. I apologize for the photo quality, I only had my cell phone with me.

Great site, and keep up the good work.

Great Stuff! Thanks Much!

A great Big Apology…

I’d like to make a great big apology to those readers of mine who have been complaining about a lot of photo’s that simply would NOT display for them either in the post or when clicked on.  I was having no real trouble getting to them from my end so I assumes there was some strange browser settings out there that may have been causing problems on the end users.  

Well I finally figured out what the problem was.  Google just sort of took it upon themselves to change the security settings on my two oldest Picassa albums such that you needed a “direct link” to view the images.  This caused a good portion of about the first 2 years (or so) of posts to no longer display images.


I believe I’ve taken care of the problem but if you run across any issues please let me know.  Thanks for your patience!

Not Sold in the U.S….. So where the heck IS the new CB1100?

It’s been off the radar for so long that I forgot about it.  Come on Honda!