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Another fantastic customized Chang Jiang from China!

Thomas from China writes in with another excellent custom from China! When I read this it reminds me how good we have it here in the US. There are more parts and shops and catalogs than we know what to do with and I still catch myself grumbling impatiently on occasion from impatience. The I see a bike like this built in a country where ther is literally almost no custom support structure and I have to just shut my mouth.

Quite frankly, this is an amazing build all the more so because of where it’s from. Really excellent work!

Hi there!

Just found your article about LOKI – the modified chinese Chang Jiang …

Of course customizing scene here in China is pretty poor – not so
many people work on “real” customs but just on changing colors and
things.

Parts are hard to come bye – although a lot of the customizing stuff
sold somewhere else is produced in Taiwan – not so far but still
difficult to import from there.

I’ve been working on Chang Jiang bikes since 4 years doing all kind of
modifications – all in my off-time.

Such business not pays the rent but is more just for fun and see how
far you can go with those oldstyle Changs.

Meanwhile i add up to 5 “real” what i call “custom-bike”.

Build up some more rides anyway but they where more or less standard
Chang Jiangs.

Find attached some pics of my latest project “El Diablo” which was
just finished.

Main changes i did was to shift tailwheel to 16 inch rim, custom-made tailfender (the sheetmetal-work was a pain in the ass), custom-tank with gasoline gauge, relocated battery and exhaust and a lot of other mods.

I would be really proud to also find some pics of my creations on “Motorcycle Photo …”!

Thumbs up for the job you do.

Thomas in Beijing

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http://www.4444-Chang-Jiang-Design.com

Reader Ride. Beautiful 1975 Ducati 750.

From Randy Rush who posted it to the Facebook page.  Thanks!

 

Reader Rides. A trio of beautiful dirt oriented classics.

Really nice set! I love em all. I confess that I know very little about the Cooper and I thought all Rokons were the 2 wheel drive 4 strokes. Great stuff. I’m a we bit under the weather so any input from the readership very much appreciated!

Hi there,Richard Weslow here with a picture of two stroke motorcycle history,75 first year RM second bike is a 74 Rokon Sach 340 and the third bike is a 250 Cooper from Mexico.The 75 RM changed motocross as we know it with radical new look for suspension,the Rokon was a bizarre concept way ahead of its time with disk brakes and the fact its a pull start automatic snowmobile motor and the Cooper also has rich history made possible by Frank H. Cooper a macio importer that went to macio to produce a enduro bike ,after macio turned him down he then turned to Islo a small bike manufacture in Mexico where they started to produce the cooper bikes.

Great Shot of a nice CL360

Joe Kezman sends in a sweet shot of a cool bike! As he put it “My CL360 running good and looking good.” Yes it is Joe! Thanks for the pic!

1971 Triumph 500 Cafe racer

Marc Crocetti ‎posted this beautiful 1971 Triumph 500 Cafe racer on the Facebook page. Thought I’d post it here for those of you who don’t follow us on Facebook.

The German Karp collection!

Hi,I´m German Karp,from Argentina and I´ve built these beauties,if u want more info or more specs of the bikes just let me know.
Thanks for your time.
German Karp,Argentina.

PS:the Sportster 48 its a REPLICA of Rough Crafts bike,the IRON GUERRILLA,built by Winston Yeh.its not stolen ,the builder in taiwan let me built the clone here in Argentina.

Interesting collection. I like the Kawasaki twin and the Bonneville a lot.

Reader Ride. A cool Kawasaki KZ budget cafe build.

Reader Bruce Reed sends in this cool 1980 kz440. “We built from frame to paint here in our little garage”.

Great Stuff!

Reader Ride. A sweet Honda Cl125.

Jason Moore sends in his sweet little CL125 “hybrid”

This is my CL125s “lil Frank” I picked it up to restore and ride around town but it ended up needing a full motor rebuild, new exhaust, and the forks were bent. Its basically a combination of the CL125 and a CB100 that was full of bullet holes and laying on its side in a field for 20+ years. This was my first 125s but now I have 5. Some for parts and some to put back on the road. Ill send you some nice ones of my CB125 cafe as soon as I get some good pictures of it. I love riding these little bikes because it brings back so many good memories for people. i always get stopped wherever i go by somebody who has a story about when they had a little honda just like it. Anyway here are some shoots i took recently.

Another Cafe’d Dualsport! This time a KLR.

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”.

A Seriously Clean Yamaha Street Tracker!

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.