Bike Garage - Ninja Mr. Ride

30 Sep, 2019 Post a Comment

Can yous plough a modest together with modern sports bike into an interesting full-style cafe racer?
Combining reliability together with shape, Flavio Vanna together with Fabio Mattioli receive got succeeded inward this
They together shape Mr Ride's squad together with receive got their workshop inward Brazil.
Let us know nigh them together with their work.

Where are yous coming from?
Brasil
Who else worked alongside you?
Fabio Matiolli. Togheter nosotros are "Mr. Ride".
How tin yous clitoris yourself (or your team)?
Two crazy guys trying to brand a departure at customization scene inward a solid soil where this activeness is almost impossible (laws, import taxes etc).
What inspired yous to starting fourth dimension edifice the bike?
The internship I made at Cherry's Company, owned past times Kaishiroh Kurosu, at Tokyo. When I came dorsum to Brasil, afterward getting inward acquit upon alongside his boldness, talent together with unique means of thinking, I decided to starting fourth dimension alongside a bike that almost nobody piece of job to gear upward every bit donor for a cafe racers.

Where did it come upward from?
I chose the Kawasaki Ninja to gear upward a cafe racer because I constitute real challenging to convert a speed bike into a cafe racer.
What's the donor bike, make, model, year?
Kawasaki Ninja 250 R 2011
What was your vision/plan?
The goal was to convert a modern speed bike into a vintage cafe racer trying to create the bike that gave nativity to the modern Ninja inward the past.
What did yous exercise to the bike?
Since is real hard to purchase expert parts inward Brasil, people piece of job to purchase them from China. To built a unique bike nosotros decided to fabricate every bit many parts from scratch, every bit possible. Like: fuel tank, fenders, tail, side plates, speedometer housing together with plough lights.
If you've upgraded parts, what brand did yous conduct together with where from?

Any interesting challenges, unconfident, or mistakes?
The master copy error nosotros made was non making a interrogation to honor out how the frame was earlier starting. When nosotros removed all the plastic nosotros constitute a bunch of hooks that nosotros needed to cutting inward club to gear upward clean the frame.
Building the bottom of the tank was real challenging because of the strange pattern of the frame on this section. This business office took to a greater extent than fourth dimension than whatever other.
Tell us nigh the finish/logos/design?
We designed the paradigm pattern peculiarly to highlight the lines of the project: the box-shape tank (inspired past times the one-time Kawasakis) together with the tail, that goes from a foursquare shape close the seat, to a circular shape on the end.
The logo is a vintage Kawasaki reproduction that I bought inward Tokyo.
Any unique features?
Except the speedometer, all the parts were custom made for this bike. As yous told yous before, nobody exercise this inward Brasil.
Unfortunately it's hard to see, simply nosotros similar a lot the radiator expansion bedroom that is hidden below the correct side plate: a whisky flask.

How would yous clitoris your bike?
Cafe racer
How does the bike ride?
It's real light, fun to ride together with maneuver.
What volition yous exercise next? New projects?
A Honda CBX 750 1989 similar nobody always saw.