special caferacer: September 2011

Friday, 30 September 2011

Chopperstyle bike show: Roel Scheffers' GS

One bike in the bike show did get my vote, but did not win: Roel Scheffers' Suzuki GS. Why it got my vote? I think it's brilliant. It not only looks fantastic, it's another one of those designs that make you wonder what the builder has been smoking. Who in the world would think of putting KTM fairings on an old GS?!? And the home build fuel tank containing the battery..... Sweet!

The master himself:

And the bike:

He did pretty much everything himself (except for the pin striping). I borrowed some photo's for this post from fotoduda. He makes great photo's, check it out.

And I did a previous post on a bike by Roel, a Z500, you can find it here.

And finally the link to Roel's website.

Thursday, 29 September 2011

BikeExif

The BMW made it to BikeExif and I feel very honored. A short introduction for all the visitors coming here via BikeExifs. These are the other builds on this site:

CX500 chopper. Build together with the guy from DesmoMeister:

CX500 I build for my Girlfriend:

Suzuki SP370 which I sold a while ago (good thing I did, it was not the right bike for me):

My Honda CB750, also featured on BikeExif:

and the current builds:

A Yamaha XV920 Virago chopper, almost done. Build together with Vincent (DesmoMeister):

And the next project: A Yamaha SR500 that I will build together with Vincent:

Chopperstyle low budget bike show numbers 3 and 4:

Still have some photo's of the Chopperstyle bike show. These two bikes were placed 3rd (xs650) and 4th (CB750 SOHC). The XS is not really my taste, but it is very well build by Jacco from Short Cut Choppers

They are having an opening party of their brand new shop in Ede (the Netherlands) this Saturday.

The CB 750 SOHC is build by Gozewien. Apart form the paint, he did everything himself. It's great to see a bike that is so different from the usual CB mods (including my CB). Some great details on that bike! (Check out that exhaust!)

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Working on the Virago

It's something we do jut about weekly, mostly in the evening. It's in the final stages of the build now. We are tidying things up and doing the paint. Last night was no different. I chose to take the BMW, the train is expensive, unreliable and annoying. Besides that, the weather was great and I had a request for more photo's of the BMW. I found a pretty cool photo location in an old, abandoned stone factory. Sneak preview:

The other photo's will show up later ;)

We've been working on the Virago for about 3 years now.... Sounds long and it is long. That's mostly due to how we work: We're there to have fun. Joking around, trying out stuff on the bike that we already know (but not for sure) that it won't work. And we work on other bikes as well. This is Vincent spray painting a part for his Duc Caferacer:

But if we want to finish it, which we really want by now, we do have to work on the Virago. This is me, working on one of the side fairings:

We managed to do a mock up of the bike with most painted parts, including the tank (it's finished) and the engine. I am not going to show you photo's, they don't do the bike any justice yet. But we think it looks great, and that's what matters.

reminder of what it looked like before paint:

And the way back on the BMW. Like I said: Magical.

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Sunny with a chance of fog

That's what the weather forecast said: A sunny day with a chance of fog in the evening. I took the Beemer again to go to Vincent to work on the Virago. I stopped on the way there to shoot a couple of photo's near an old stone factory. You'll be seeing those later. The way back was magical again. Just me, the BMW and the narrow, dark, sometimes foggy, dyke roads.