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George send me a pic of his bike a few weeks ago and while I really like these type of bikes I wouldn’t normally feature one. However after reading that it was built on an $800 budget I had to post it as inspiration for others
“Here is the story of the motorcycle so far. Bought about a year ago as a commuter in a totally original state (not even an exhaust on it). The bike was doing it’s job pretty well, but i saw that there where some true potentials of beauty in her.
Inspiration came from bike builders like A.C santcuary & Bulldock Japan and i started with a very tight budget of aprox. $800 to build it. A lot of one off parts made by me like the clip on’s, the tail tidy and even the solid brass label on the exhaust is made by hand by me. The color is a unique, one off mixture off gold & green pearl with black stripes on it, and a thick coat of clear laquer (5 hands of it!)
Lot’s of powdercoated parts, wheels, swingarm, triple trees even the levers are OEM powder coated. The fact that I was on such a tight budget made me try something different, the bike is not a bolt on bike.
The exhaust is the original OEM headers 4 to 1, chopped, with a one off inserted silencer. The headlight is a 1978 yamaha xs 400. I changed the brake hoses with braided one, chopped rear light, lever hollowed by hand and a lot of small part’s on the bike are powder coated. Even the seat was remoulded with anti-slip surface.
The bike was built in a room acually with late night’s and rock’n’roll music!
I am very proud of her (here in Greece bikes have a sex when we talk about them)
Yours sincerely
Gerorge Lavatsis LVTZ
Amateur bike builder/Mechanical Engineer”
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How would you classify this custom bike, is it a street tracker, a cafe racer, a brat or something else?
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Got a submission form http://shootfromtheship.tumblr.com/
Looks like some quality work and cracking fun to ride with those bars.
Got a couple of special bikes coming up so keep the submissions coming guys.
“This is my ‘78 Suzuki GS550. It was completely stock when I got it from a friend for $800 a little over a year ago. I’ve done most of the work on it myself, with some help from a friend who’s a mechanic. She’s a little dinged up and a little funky, but I love her.
-Shane”
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I hassled Tyson for a few pics of his recently finished custom Suzuki GS500. He finally sent them through to me and I then I forgot I had them…oops.
This bike was built by the good guys over at 66 Motorcycles in North Fremantle, Western Australia. Tyson saw the one that Ellaspede did and thought it could be improved on. I reckon they nailed it. Do you?
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Saw a sweet little Honda on Instagram and asked Yandra for some pics He’s done well, real well…
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My brother used to get his squiggle on with an Artline (known in the US a Sharpie) whenever he was bored. I loved what he came up with and thought to myself that I’d do a tank like that one day.
Like all my good ideas, someone has done it already. You’ll need to click on these pictures to see them full screen to really appreciate them though.
When I saw Shane’s bike I asked for pics and this was his response…
“I lost all my good photos of my bike :( The computer crashed and I didn’t have them backed up. Soon as it stops snowing an stays nice I’m gonna do some photo shoots of her.
Shane”
We very much look forward to the new pics mate.
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For all the info check out 4h10.com blog. You’ll need to read French or use google translate.
Source: 4h10.com
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A few months ago I saw a “before” pic of Ruud’s Honda CL360 on Instagram and decided to follow him to see how it eventuated. I never imagined it would come out this good.
Ruud basically made the bike you see here and had a long, low slung exhaust with a reverse cone that was painted black. It looked good and most people would have stopped there…but not Ruud. He got to work on one of the sexiest exhausts I’ve ever seen.
Just to make us all jealous, Ruud says he made this in his parents garage over 5 saturdays!
You can follow Ruud on Instagram by searching for ruudelltoro and he has a damn fine blog (with a great blogroll) which you should check out.
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People seemed to like the clean Harley bobber the other day so I present to you a very clean Harley Brat / Tracker.
Have you got some clean examples of Harleys you’d like to share?
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