And yet another great Beemer from Italy!

I got another email from Francesco, the guy who build that wonderfull black and white Franzgarage BMW. He send some photo's of his friend's (Marco Lugato from "moto di
ferro") bike. He asked if I like it. I love it!! Thank you for sending the photo's!

Been riding again

On the Virago. The weather was briljant, almost couldn't be better. So I took the CB and ended up at where we build the Virago (with a pretty big detour).

Longest trip on the CB so far by far. It was a very pleasant ride. Also the first time with saddle bags, no problems there either.

The Virago had a bit of a grumpy start, but was flawless after that. It's pretty fast, sounds loud but very nice, handles ok (ground play is a bit of an issue in fast corners) and was surprisingly comfortable.

More Bo and the Beemer

Soon to be cafe-ed

Vincent bought a Ducati/Cagiva. Can't wait to see what he'll turn it in to! You can follow the build on his blog:

Desmo Meister

Another one of yesterday's photos

First daylight for the Virago

We did our first daylight test with the Virago, it was necessary to check the ground play when oing over (speed) bumps. The bike didn't run too good, in the end it turned out that the bolts that hold the inlet manifold in place had come lose, but by that time the battery was already gone (the battery is very weak). But at least we have some daylight images.

Busted! (and I plea guilty!)

CX500 Madness

Via ADVrider member Jehu.

The Virago: Wrapping it up

The final stages of a build always take way too long, but we are getting there. Did a ton of invisible stuff and we wrapped the exhaust. Many people say (sometimes jealously) that wrapping exhaust is just for hiding ugly welds. Well, in this case, they are right. We made the exhaust with a very, very old stick welder without even an on/off switch, it didn't help that all the pieces used for the exhaust were slightly different in material, thickness and size. So we knew we had to wrap them, but we had postponed it to the last stage of the build as not to damage the wrapping while working on the bike. We are not too happy with the result, the exhaust are difficult to wrap and they look a bit too big now, but we expect it to start looking better as the wrapping will slowly turn brownish over time.

The bike runs great now, sounds great too (bit loud, but f*ck that). Idling sound is spot on. We really have to find some time during the daylight to do some further testing, filming and a photo shoot.