Bike Garage - Tri Apartment Tracker

If inwards a projection you lot bring together to a greater extent than talking heads as well as therefore seeks advice from a Flat Track freak similar Gary Inman (Sideburn Magazine), hither is a repose as well as peaceful HONDA CB400T 1980 is transformed into a calorie-free as well as fun bike.

This built is a collaboration projection past times Bandisca Motorcycles alongside the greek people of The Real Intellectuals as well as Caferacercult.gr as well as this take in born afterward the custom motorcycles Athens exhibit The Wheel to Build finally May.

Bandisca Motorcycles from Bucharest are an independent custom store based inwards Bucharest, they work basically inwards novel vogue custom tendences over 70s-80s Japanese as well as European bikes.

We asked them to explicate this project:

Niko told me that he wanted to built a apartment tracker wheel for racing side past times side yr at the Dirt Quake as well as other European Union events as well as wanted us to built it, was a large surprise for us because at that spot are a lot of practiced builders inwards Hellenic Republic but Niko loves our vogue as well as wanted us to hold upwards the builders, as well as of course of teaching nosotros appreciated that therefore much.

Where did it come upwards from?
So nosotros started to seek a donor bike, the budget was express as well as afterward 2 months, Leo from Caferacercult.gr offered us a junk Honda CB400T that he had somewhere inwards his shed, the wheel was dissasembly as well as the engine was burnt but it was complete…. that was… nosotros become to Athens at the cease of June to selection upwards the iron, was a funny weekend alongside Leo as well as Niko trying to define how nosotros could construct a apartment tracker wheel alongside such a junk, haha, but I said them nosotros volition produce it (not really certain at that momment but I was drunk…)

What was your vision/plan?
When arrived at our Bucharest cave nosotros kickoff to analyze the situation, we've got a junk CB400T without fuctional engine, we've got a CB400N engine at the store that I already had rebuilt as well as tuned for other project, as well as no fucking take in well-nigh how to construct a apartment teracker bike, I never built ane before… So nosotros kickoff to investigate, every bit Romania has a potent tradition of speedway racing alongside that one-time Jawas that run alongside ethanol as well as inwards unopen to aspects speedway seems similar apartment tracker nosotros heared unopen to advices from speedway pilots that allow us know how a speedway wheel mus hold upwards raced as well as what is of import for sideways….

A lot of information comming also from Gary Inman from Sideburn that helped us alongside tyre issues as well as other technical tips… but when nosotros putted on the tabular array all that nosotros conclude that nosotros would demand to construct a consummate novel bike… almost nada from the CB frame was practiced for that… therefore I became angry as well as when that happens is ameliorate me to existence far from the grinder… inwards this illustration the grider was beside me… therefore y cutting everything from the CB frame, keeping but the cardinal stamped column…. I posted unopen to pics as well as Niko entered inwards panic… haha!!
What did you lot produce to the bike?
So the province of affairs was: we've got the cardinal column of the CB, a CB400N total overhauled engine as well as a prissy tank from a Kawasaki g7ss „stolen" from the Niko's store!… a practiced begining!!

Ok, agreement that nosotros possess got no issues alongside the engine, nosotros could focus on the frame design, my married adult woman Mihaela spent several nights checking apartment tracker bikes as well as trying to blueprint a frame shape for this built… as well as afterward ane calendar week we've got an idea… the Mihaela's blueprint meant that nosotros must rennounce to the twin daze nurture interruption as well as construct a monoshock one… no therefore bad because anyway the CB was also curt for our proposes as well as nosotros would demand to long it a fiddling bit, therefore nosotros designed an one-time vogue monoshock nurture fork as well as nosotros kickoff to construct as well as weld every elements… afterward the operate the wheel began to hold upwards something unopen that what nosotros wanted.

A work was the tail, mi married adult woman hates the traditional apartment tracker tails therefore she designed something unlike but…. how tha fuck I would produce that if I possess got no take in of working on fiberglass?… the alluminium was the answer, I shaped the tail inwards alluminium… I commonly produce that but alongside fenders but I tryed… afterward 2 sheets of alluminium junked I got the shape designed and… surprise!! also fitted on the frame!!

At interruption degree nosotros used a fully setable YSS nurture daze as well as a Yamaha SR500 front end fork alongside progressive springs.

The pigment pattern was designed past times Niko but done but our local painter that I desire to tell done a actually fine work, the frame elements was powdercoated inwards a high resistance texturized gunblack color, nosotros consummate the elements alongside a vintage handlebar that I got years agone from an one-time 70's Husqvarna that went to the junk as well as from what I took unopen to parts before, I ever loved that handlebar but but instantly on this projection I institute the proper house for it.

Ok, the wheel was almost built but… I didn't desire batteries or complicate electrics on it as well as the CB400N engine I got was an 85 non kickstarter model, therefore the finally footstep was to possess got the kickstarter assy from the eighty CB400T donated past times Leo as well as lay it on the 85 engine… seems slow but on fact nosotros discovery that our 85 was a 6gears model as well as the eighty was a 5gears model… the kickstarter pinion is non the same… shit again!!! nosotros was ane calendar week something to The Rotten Race as well as nosotros couldn't hold off for the purpose comming from our provider inwards Germany… therefore nosotros went to the turner ane time to a greater extent than as well as made a custom one…

Ok, we've got the frame, the nurture fork, the trunk elements, the engine…. nosotros would demand wheels!!! I kickoff to seek for nineteen wheels noticing that no ane touchstone fitted our bike… shit!! nosotros needed to construct them!! afterward seeking for components nosotros discovery that hubs are therefore expensive, spokes are therefore expensive, rims are therefore expensive… nosotros needed to produce something that don't drive us neither Niko to the bankruptcy… therefore nosotros kickoff to await for rims as well as I could discovery 2 practiced KTM 36 spoke 19×2.15 rims, nosotros needed therefore to discovery 36 spoke proper hubs, for the nurture afterward a lot of tests I couldn't discovery a 36 spokes hub that allowed us to align the transmission chain as well as the wheel inwards a proper agency alongside the fork I built… afterward a catamenia of despair, ane morn I saw a hub inwards a box at the shop, was an one-time Gilera 36 spokes hub that fitted perfect!! as well as also had a practiced brake rotor, nosotros alone needed the nurture sproket that finally nosotros needed to custom built for that because was impossible to discovery 520 or 525 sprocket for that hub, but nosotros built it!! For the front end nosotros used a DR600 hub.

Tell us well-nigh the finish/logos/design?
The pigment pattern was designed past times Niko but done but our local painter that I desire to tell done a actually fine work, the frame elements was powdercoated inwards a high resistance texturized gunblack color, nosotros consummate the elements alongside a vintage handlebar that I got years agone from an one-time 70's Husqvarna that went to the junk as well as from what I took unopen to parts before, I ever loved that handlebar but but instantly on this projection I institute the proper house for it.

The result of therefore much operate is a apartment tracker As a wheel it is done for sideways as well as plow left fast, as well as it Achieves the target therefore nice.