I Have Mentioned,

many times before,

 how I like the look of a board tracker, a murderess sport if ever there was one, or bobber look on motorcycles,

 and here is another, but a strange choice of donor motorcycle, a Royal Enfield,

 Java’s Lembinc is headed by Rizqi Patama, He works for a design agency,although it has to be said the highlight of his year is designing the Sekepal Aspal MotoArt Exhibition in Jakarta, a huge event that brings together all the best builds from across the archipelago, on to the motorcycle, “I made a lot of sketches for this project,” he says, “For me, sketches are a must”, so he made out the plan on photoshop to determine the direction of the build, He landed on this, a 1930’s inspired board tracker,

 then it was time to get dirty, “After everything was torn down I kept the engine, the electricals and then chopped the rear subframe, I then put it on the table jig beside my drawing”, to get the proportions bang-on, he made up a pair of 21” wheels, the front is a Suzuki TS125 mounted to a bespoke hub and the rear is a mash of custom parts and CB650 brake components,

 that’s where things with the custom Enfield became a royal pain, “The hardest thing was the rear brake system,” Rizqi says. “I had around five attempts at making the rear brake linkage. I had to transfer the brake lever from the right side to the left side, all because I changed the rear drum”, but when that was sorted, work moved onto the lines of the bike,

 the tank was chrome-dipped and finished with a classic scallop paint job by local heros Evo Cycles Work, the rest of the frame and nosecone were finished in gloss black, while plenty of other detail parts went in for chrome dipping, the build took a total of 3 months,

  “My main concern was the stance,” Riz recalls, “So I did plenty of adjustment of the ground clearance and the wheelbase”. Rizqi drew inspiration for the girder front end from an old BSA M20, stretched 2cms longer and with some simplified mounting points,

  the rear sub is custom made as well, from ½ inch stainless steel pipe,

above Riz is preparing the bike for the 2018 Kustomfest show in Jogja, and as he says, it’s a blast to ride. “It’s totally different,” Rizqi explains, “You can feel the responsive acceleration because I’ve made the rear sprocket bigger. It looks classic, but has a sportsbike-like riding position, and of course, it’s a cop magnet here!” what a neat looking Royal Enfield, photographs by @ilhamnuriadi.

A Few Days Ago,

we made a post,

 about a chrome motorcycle, well here is another one, but this time using stainless steel instead of chrome,

 and another difference, this one is only 250 cc, it was built as a replica broad-track racer, a murderous sport if ever there was one,

 Andika Pratama, head of Kromworks, ‘The concept was supposed to be a board-tracker,’ Andika says, ‘We weren’t stuck to the idea in general, I wanted to apply some innovation to the concept of a board-tracker so I decided to use stainless steel for everything that went onto it.’ 

 ‘The first thing I designed was the flow between the frame backbone and the swing arm,’ he adds. ‘Making a frame with stainless steel as opposed to other metal is harder – and welding it is quite the challenge in itself.’ after much cutting and shutting and welding, grinding and cursing Kromworks turned their attention to the tank,

  the two-part fuel tank is essential to making this little Cleveland CycleWerks look so impeccably clean, there’s a bunch of space between the tunnel and tank itself, allowing for all the electronics to be tucked hidden away inside, take a good long look at the bike, there’s a clutch cable and a throttle cable visible but nothing in the way of wiring showing,

 the whole motorcycle has been created using 316 stainless steel, which was polished and left raw, there’s plenty of neat little details scattered throughout the bike, but three things make Andika feel particularly proud, ‘I think the head light, swing arm and front suspension are the things I’m proudest of,’ he says. ‘I made them all by hand, without using a CNC machine or anything like that’,

the seat may look a little uncomfortable, but lets face it, the bike is for speed not comfort, would I like it? of course!

We Have Not Posted A Motorcycle,

for some time,

 so here is one,

 whose style I like,

 it was crafted by Rob Chappell of Origin8or Custom Cycles in Ontario, Canada,

 it is the style that I really like, a board tracker,

 the basic mantra is,

 'if it does not make it go faster, do not bolt it on!'

 the bike was almost built from scratch, Rob used a MK7 builders kit from Dave at Voodoo Vintage but keen to set yet another challenge Rob decided “for this build I wanted to push every skill set I had, and in some cases learn some new ones. I wanted most of the bike to be hand built.” so he fabricated a rotisserie frame jig and downloaded the frame plans only to discover it was much longer than he’d wanted, spec’d to be 64 inches axle to axle Rob aimed for 56 and re-designed the frame before shortening the back end, narrowing the frame, changing some angles and altering the backbone, with his own drop-outs and engine mounts, she’s running 35° of rake with 8” of trail, all beautifully TIG welded together by the Rob himself,

Rob fabricated the risers that sit the bars out 2.5inchs forward in Board Track style, with those inverted levers and hand-wrapped leather grips,

 the forks alone are a masterpiece and Rob details their constructions, “I drew up all my measurements once again on the computer as vector 2D art to get the lengths and designs right. For the triples I passed those drawings onto my friend Mat Tobin who got it into Fusion 360 and CNC’d the top and bottom triple for me on his home mill. For the moving arms I sent my flat 2D drawings to be cut on a water jet out of 6061 – 1” thick aluminum. The finishing of them was done on my manual mill. I made the forks out of 1″ .125 wall DOM tubing and TIG welded it all together. All of the bungs and stainless front axle I also made on my manual lathe.”

in another collaboration Rob split the work on the seat with a friend, Adrian @8x6customworks in Scotland. “I warned him of the timeline I was under and he literally had shipped me back a leather seat pad in less than 8 days. On top of that he made me two, one with my logo and one without – what a champ!” and what a bike, to follow Rob here are his Facebook and Instagram pages, photography by Benn Quinn.

We Have Not Made A Post About A Motorcycle,

for some time, 

 so here is a real beauty, based on a 1947 Harley Davidson,

 a board tracker, as I mention in the link a murderous sport, 

 but this one was built not for racing but for a custom bike show, 

 the builder is Andika of Kromworks who explains, “This bike was created as an iconic bike for Suryanation Motorland which is one of prestigious customised bike events in Indonesia, I built this bike with my friend; his name is Lufti Ardika, We name this bike ‘Tosan Adjie’ which was derived from ancient Javanese language that means Precious Metal, I designed this bike using my own imagination" and with that Andika was ready to get started and selected a batch of 316 stainless steel from which he would craft much of the bike,

 the front took a great deal of trial and error to get it just right, “It did not function properly at first. But that was the challenge that I had to conquer, and finally it functions as it should,” 

the legs are made from plate and given the precision needed for suspension components, the stainless had to be braced during welding due to its desire to bend under heat in any direction,

 above the tank a pair of springs take care of dampening the force that is transferred via a set of handmade linkages,

 each cable on the bike is run in a unique way, with some sheathed, others running through brass and others exposed in parts,

 the whole deal is finished out with the massive 21 inch polished rims wrapped in E270 Shinko rubber,

and here it is in action! you can follow the shop on Instagram, photography by Suryanation Motorland, and yes I do want one!