Bike Garage - Gts K Scheffers Engineering
It 'easy to state special, but when you lot await at a cycle similar this is forced to redefine the damage of this adjective. There were months when I reveal the piece of work of Roel Scheffers, at the initiatory of all I must state that it seemed an absurd projection in addition to also feose all nice, but consider every detail, every technical solution which used to solve every work that has establish his path, I tin non produce is compliment, just higher than the footing are able in addition to so much talent in addition to abilities. Here a long interview in addition to a large gallery of lensman Mark Meisner, where Roel says himself, his history in addition to the piece of work done on this bike.
My passion for bikes started equally a 8/9 twelvemonth old, riding on the dorsum of my dad's cycle every Sunday. Touring alongside the "club" absolutely loved it! Loved it in addition to so much in addition to got in addition to so comfortable at times that they sometimes had to necktie me to the sissybar/backpad whenever I brutal asleep patch riding. After that started alongside some illegal moped driving inwards the woods at the historic catamenia of 12,after that some Zundapp in addition to agency to fast Aprilia mopeds when xvi years old, initiatory of all motorbike non long after that; a Honda CB350F (green tank) which I nonetheless lead maintain the hots for! As much equally I loved that cycle originally I also wanted to lead maintain i that was totally my ain style. So I bought a CB400F which I completely rebuilt alongside the assistance of my dad in addition to friends (Stijn Horsten alongside welder machine..)
My passion for bikes started equally a 8/9 twelvemonth old, riding on the dorsum of my dad's cycle every Sunday. Touring alongside the "club" absolutely loved it! Loved it in addition to so much in addition to got in addition to so comfortable at times that they sometimes had to necktie me to the sissybar/backpad whenever I brutal asleep patch riding.
After that started alongside some illegal moped driving inwards the woods at the historic catamenia of 12,after that some Zundapp in addition to agency to fast Aprilia mopeds when xvi years old, initiatory of all motorbike non long after that; a Honda CB350F (green tank) which I nonetheless lead maintain the hots for!
As much equally I loved that cycle originally I also wanted to lead maintain i that was totally my ain style. So I bought a CB400F which I completely rebuilt alongside the assistance of my dad in addition to friends (Stijn Horsten alongside welder machine..)
This has e'er been (and nonetheless is) a hobby. Whilst I lead maintain been living inwards NL I’ve been working equally mechanical engineer (agricultural machinery). Making unique bikes inwards night-time in addition to weekends was what I was living for! Gathering parts, idea's, machines, donors..; cycle materials was going through my heed 24/7.
My household unit of measurement led me to Norway, my Norwegian daughter in addition to my ii kids :) After some fourth dimension going dorsum in addition to forth to Kingdom of Norway in addition to NL. We decided that nosotros would desire to lead maintain our kids grow upwards inwards the beautiful province that Kingdom of Norway is. So I spoke to my bosses in addition to made a programme alongside them to quit my chore at that spot in addition to mitt over my piece of work to my co-worker. In the meanwhile I sold my work solid in addition to packed upwards all my tools ready for carry to the North.
Here I pass my fourth dimension equally constituent fourth dimension housefather, edifice bikes, repairing pocket-size mechanism in addition to doing CAD engineering work, in addition to at that spot is the occasional cow-milking :)
Last twelvemonth I decided to register my companionship to live able to accept jobs for people. For me it is a real dainty mix of activities, never bored, lots of fourth dimension alongside my family, I tin live creative inwards lots of materials inwards the workshop in addition to I lead maintain the liberty to pass my fourth dimension equally I desire it.
Building bikes is genuinely non genuinely a work organisation (yet). I desire to locomote along edifice unique cycles in addition to the marketplace for that is non easy, specially when you lot are living inwards the North of Norway.. We volition consider what the futurity brings. In the meanwhile I've got lots of idea's that are related to bikes in addition to that volition accept cast soon... we'll consider where it gets me. Occasionally I lead maintain a client who needs some repair or a pocket-size constituent for a bike, off course of pedagogy I'm real happy to assistance out alongside that, a cycle is a cycle in addition to (almost) e'er fun to piece of work on.
My creative procedure is running 24/7. The materials I'm wondering most every nighttime earlier I autumn asleep is how to brand this in addition to that constituent or how to acquire a cycle blueprint "working". With “working” I hateful how produce I acquire far await good, fresh, sharp, new, BIKE. Because at that spot is tons of materials that you lot tin position inwards your design.... the principal destination for me is to locomote along it a bike! Although I love to accept inspiration from the extreme futuristic bikes equally much equally from the pre-war bikes, the principal destination for my bikes remains: it needs to live a BIKE. People lead maintain to await at it in addition to say, wow!! Now that is a motorcycle! Instead of, wow, that is a dainty caféracer, chopper etc.... I love to accept lots of unlike elements out of unlike boxes :)
My workshop started equally a hobby, equally for most of us, but I was lucky to lead maintain a real clever granddad alongside lots of tools in addition to lots of room. After my granddad died in addition to I was onetime plenty me in addition to my dad made certain it was real good used! The upgrading of the tools started when I started studying in addition to got some coin inwards alongside several jobs, the upgrading volition never stop, same for the learning. Lots of the tools I purchase is just for me to accept the side yesteryear side motorbike projection to a higher level. For example... when I rebuilt my BMW K100 "RS09" I establish out it had an aluminium tank. So halfway the projection I had to invest inwards an AC/DC TIG machine to live able to weld upwards the cutting upwards tank.For the GTS projection I needed to manufacturing flora lots of materials down, in addition to so I bought me a milling machine. Also this was the initiatory of all fourth dimension that my canvass metallic forming tools came inwards to use, this tank in addition to spot is the initiatory of all laid I made from scratch. For the upcoming projection I'm planning inwards producing an impressive laid of two-stroke exhaust for a Suzuki GT750 engine; I just got my ii manual plate curl bending machines inwards :) In the close futurity I would similar to invest inwards a CNC machine........ nosotros lead maintain to locomote along dreaming don't we?
The GTS:
After edifice my BMW K100 RS09 I had one-half the chance to rebuild a Honda ST1100 Pan European... An uncle promised me his onetime Pan if I would rebuild it for him. Unfortunately through work, exams in addition to to a greater extent than I never got this off the footing in addition to nosotros decided to create upwards the Pan in addition to sell it instead. After the K100 in addition to the aroma of the ST1100 I got a fleck triggered yesteryear the thought of finding a BIG tour machine in addition to plough it into a lean "killer" bike. Some query Pb me to the GTS which I had never genuinely noticed before.. Two weeks afterward I drove to the North of Netherlands alongside a friend to alternative upwards my GTS. The residuum is history haha ;)
This cycle had to live LOW, it had to live double unmarried sided wheeled, it needed raw steel in addition to most of all it needed to breathe; motorcycle!
Brand: Yamaha
Type: GTS 1000
Year: 1992
Engine: FZR1000 pre-exup
1000cc, opened upwards air intake, real brusk homemade velocity stacks, handmade stainless steel exhaust organisation alongside modified IXIL-mufflers, carbs alongside dynojet phase 3 kit, needs concluding tuning on dyno.
Oil belly pan modified, modified clutch side comprehend # 10, water-cooler circuit modified, rerouted wiring in addition to simplified, fossil oil cooler bent in addition to so it could live mounted behind forepart wheel.
Frame: GTS thou OMEGA frame
Wheels: Back: VFR750. Front: modified in addition to widened rear-wheel NSR150SP (with some assistance of Plurk in addition to Marcel)
Front-end:
GTS thou "RADD" forepart terminate suspension, all components are modified;
Lower arm holes welded to acquire far await smoother, bearing-housing milled downward to brand to a greater extent than infinite for the wheel / brake, connection to the up-right arm milled down.
Upright arm holes welded to acquire far await smoother
Upper arm modified to brand infinite for the radiator
Linkage organisation home-made to supersede the master copy "steering-column".
Steering, all home-made
Internal throttle cable
Shock absorbers, Yamaha R6
Rear-end: Honda VFR750 bring upwards swingarm + brake, modified to fit GTS frame. Buell X1 stupor alongside boundary Hyperpro, home-made link system.
Fenders: None
Gas tank, seat: Homemade aluminium.
Headlight, aftermarket aluminium V-ROD, modified to fit styling of the cycle of course.
Subframe: homemade, steal
Rear-set: some sporty cycle alongside homemade pocket-size subframes
Front brake: homemade brake hub centre, alongside some assistance of VVM
Brake / clutch handles, modified Harley pumps.
Seat: Scheffers design, handmade yesteryear Marcel Miller (NL)
Small insight on the blueprint decisions for this bike:
I bought the beast, left the onetime possessor inwards tears when I told him I would cutting op his dear GTS the same hateful solar daytime .... drove habitation on the GTS, felt good, unlike experience but good! smoked upwards a bring upwards wheel in addition to chopped upwards the cycle the same day.
It presently became clear that the GTS apparently had to acquire ii single-sided wheels in addition to it rapidly became clear that the biggest challenge was here, because I wanted to acquire rid of the master copy forepart wheel.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 minute challenge that I had position on myself was to minimize the bike. EXTREMELY depression so.. 82cm at the highest point. For a cycle alongside interruption it is pretty low. (measure your ain cycle alongside a ruler... ;) )
The 3rd large challenge was to brand the tank in addition to spot out of aluminium in addition to NOT pigment it.
During the projection I felt to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than that this cycle was genuinely going to live something special. Thanks to the double single-sided wheels in addition to the frame. It would live real obvious to fit some sort of space-age tank in addition to spot alongside pointy tank, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation lights in addition to abrupt edges from outer space. So alongside the tank in addition to the seat, I went a fleck less extreme inwards shape equally the residuum of the bike, fifty-fifty though the tank is quite unusual, it links upwards alongside the spot which is a fleck of a café racer await / the-essence-of-a-motorcycle feeling. Which signs of inwards people's full general sentiment most the GTS; a real special bike; but it genuinely is a no-nonsense motorbike without frills or forms that produce non belong on a cycle in addition to are at that spot only to impress alongside no function. This cycle is all most the combination of cast in addition to function. (although of course of pedagogy I tin genuinely savour real odd shapes in addition to bikes, I felt I had achieved plenty unusual-ness alongside the base of operations of the bike; the frame in addition to wheels)
To acquire all this packed into a motorcycle, at i hollo for I knew infinite was going to live my worst enemy. It is compact, real compact, built. Exhaust, bring upwards suspension, steering link.. all sit down real unopen together, exactly matched to i some other inwards damage of role in addition to form, in addition to inwards the midst of all those parts sits the radiator for example. Because, yes, it's a FZR1000 H2O / oil-cooled engine.
It took me 3 designs for the tank in addition to spot to lastly come upwards up alongside what the cycle represents now. The initiatory of all ended inwards the bin, the minute is nonetheless lying inwards the garage inwards NL if I ever desire to accept it upwards again...
Big give thank you lot you to this bully great serial of photo's to Jasper, Kaylian, Mark in addition to of course of pedagogy Mark Meisner Motografie
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