Cafe Racer influences

I thought it would be interesting to see how crispy-one would look with a cafe racer style seat and a classic exhaust in under and over configurations. Is it too cafe? Perhaps.....

I also deleted the side covers altogether and added a foam pod filter in the first two concepts.

Vintage Supermoto LowRider Version!

What do you think of this concept?

Vinatge Supermoto is FINISHED :-]

Well not really, this is my latest concept in photoshop. Still not really happy with it. Will keep going till I am H A P P Y with it…

More concepts and my need to be creative

Some of us need to be creative on a daily basis, it’s a like oxygen, without it I feel I would suffocate. So here are four more ideas exploring the use of leather belts, diagonal lines through the tank/sidecovers, some more wood and a red seat patch.

Motorcycle Seat Repair & Modify 101

The right rear corner of the seat was ripped anyway, so I thought I might as well do a cut and shut job on the seat to improve the ‘lines’. The local wrecker was in a generous mood and gave me an old seat for just $5 (probably all its worth) so I could salvage it to repair my seat. I don’t want the seat to look brand new, but still want a custom look. See if you can figure out what I am going to do using the two images as a reference

What’s going on here then?

Apart from the fact that I’m almost out of Scotch....

Lucas type 679 Beehive Tailight

Received my new vintage Lucas type 679 ‘Beehive’ tailight from Trojan Classic Motorcycles. This was used on most British motorcycles from 1968-72. Looks very good, all I need to do now is make a nice looking bracket to mount it with.