Anything related to Ducati always comes with a hefty pricetag. So when a custom builder like Revival Cycles chose to worked on a Ducati Monster 1100, you know it’s going to turned out epic while also eat out much of their budget.
the Fuse is built from Ducati’s Monster 1100 engine.
features custom frame, handlebars and tank.
For starters, Revival Cycles is a custom shop based out of Austin, Texas and co-founded by Alan Stulberg and Stefan Hertel in 2008. The company has some of the most beautiful custom motorcycle ever made. Just drop by their website and you’ll understand what we meant.
However, among the lot, perhaps the most beautiful machine they’ve built is the custom Ducati 1100 Fuse.
A part from an engine taken out of the Monster 1100, everything else, including the stainless steel frame is completely custom. Also, the swingarm, was fabricated out of a solid block of aluminium. Just imagine the hours they’ve put into creating the perfect component.
According to the company, the exposed stainless steel tubes were designed not just as the bike’s foundation but also to act as the focal point of the overall design.
Revival Cycles also mounted a one-piece handlebar to create a clean cockpit while integrating the clutch and brake reservoir into the bar itself. Leather grips is fitted to complete the classic touch.
While the bike’s in its entirety is custom, the one-piece tank, seat and tail assembly still brings out the Ducati design language, further enhanced by the red paint. Meanwhile, to ensure the bike’s in running state, Revival Cycles also reworked the entire electrical system.
Last but not least, the Fuse pumps out 120hp from the Ducati Monster 1100 engine making it quite a powerful machine.
The best part is, Revival Cycles claimed that the estimated cost to built the Fuse is around USD500,000 (RM2.2mil).
Unik Edition is a Portugal-based workshop that operates in the capital city of Lisbon that was founded several years ago by two individuals.
Uni Edition has become one of the established workshops in the region thanks to its outstanding and unique (no pun intended) design.
This time around, the shop breathe new life into a 1996 Honda CB750 with all the aftermarket goodies.
For starters, the CB750 gets a state-of-the-art Koso headlight followed by an analogue speedometer from Motogadget.
Then the bike is installed with a unique CNC-machine triple clamp to accommodate the bike’s front fork (taken from a Suzuki GSX-R), including a top-of-the-line dual Ohlins shocks rear.
Interestingly, the 747cc inline-four engine also gets a comprehensive rebuild thanks to fresh cylinder heads, which boost the power to 73hp and 62Nm.
Lastly, Unik Edition modified the subframe to accommodate a single saddle followed by applying a unique golden-yellow paint job.
The Art of Speed Malaysia 2018 is set to explode this 28 and 29 July 2018 and one lucky folk will bring home a custom 600cc Honda C70!
Dubbed “Papa Jahat” or “Bad Daddy”, the iconic Honda C70 is fitted with a 600cc single-cylinder engine from a Honda XR600R.
The awesome machine will be Sunday’s grand prize while Saturday’s lucky draw prize will be an amazing trip to Japan!
There are many iconic bikes from around the world that have gained legendary statuses and the Honda C70 was one of the first here in Malaysia to start the Supercub movement. For Art of Speed Malaysia 2018, they’ve taken the OG of kapcais and took it to a whole new level. (more…)
Jack Watkins is the person responsible for the Watkins M001 custom bike.
The Gdańsk University of Technology lecturer with a PhD in mechanical design took four years just to design the front end.
Powering this technological marvel is a BMW R 1150 RT engine from 2002.
What happens when a fella with a PhD in mechanical design who works for a Polish industrial firm and also a lecturer/researcher at the Gdańsk University of Technology decided to build a custom bike? The end result is the Watkins M001 and an endless supply of dropped jaws on the floor. (more…)
The president of Indonesia has just purchased a Royal Enfield custom bike just yesterday.
The 350cc Royal Enfield powered custom chopper was built by Indonesia’s very own Elders Garage.
It was inspired by the short local semi documentary film called “Chopperland”.
It’s not every day that a person of power that can ultimately change an entire country excites us bikers on a personal level. Like any other rare occasion, it impresses us quite a bit every time these things happen. The latest Facebook post by a particular Indonesian president got us first for the year 2018. (more…)
Motosikal Bone-X, hasil karya Eastern Bobber bakal mewakili Malaysia di AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building di pertunjukan Intermot lewat tahun ini.
Kami telah mendapat peluang berjumpa dengan Encik Omar jumiran bagi melihat serta menangkap gambar motosikal tersebut dengan lebih dekat.
Ikuti laman kami di mana kami akan membawakan perkembangannya dari masa ke semasa.
Eastern Bobber’s Bone-X will represent Malaysia at the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building at Intermot later this year.
We caught up with Omar Jumiran to view and photograph the bike more closely.
Follow this space as we will bring you more updates from time to time.
It’s probably an injustice if we looked at custom bikes without studying the elements of art and philosophy. Production motorcycles are also works of art, but being produced on the scale of hundreds and thousands, they are considered as being the products of certain templates.
Custom bike builders, on the other hand, operate on the philosophy of one: The one and only. The best one. The One.
That’s certainly what Omar Jumiran, the proprietor of Eastern Bobber, one of Malaysia’s premiere custom motorcycle builders, had in mind when he created his master creation seen here known as the Bone-X.
The Bone-X has earned Omar and Eastern Bobber a spot at the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building at the Intermot show in Cologne, Germany, to be held in October this year, after winning the competition at the Motonation event in early December. Motonation is sponsoring Omar’s trip there. (Please click on the link below for our report from Motonation.)
I had first met Omar two years ago when I covered the Triumph Malaysia-Art of Speed Invitational Bike Build-Off in 2015. Eastern Bobber had been one of the four finalists. Meeting him at his home again, there’s the signature Eastern Bobber Batbike and, the space-framed and girder suspended bike. There were also robot sculptures scattered around the yard.
“I had wanted to build something totally unseen before. So much so, I couldn’t even name the concept for Bone-X,” laughed the soft-spoken ex-metal welder and wrought iron artist.
It’s through this expertise that Omar bent and welded parts of Bone-X, without resorting to CNC machining. Almost every part of the bike is metal, save for the tyres and parts of the brake and clutch cables.
Everything on the bike is radical, starting from two large springs sitting on top of the miniscule rectangular gas tank which forms the bike’s backbone.
The springs are attached to the fore and aft upper suspension levers. Upon closer inspection, one half of each spring is double coiled. “The single coiled part takes care of compression damping, while the double sprung part handles rebound. The levers are long so it needs more spring strength to suspend each end of the bike,” explained Omar. The springs are laid down flat thus more spring tension is needed, compared to most production bikes whose shocks are mounted almost vertical.
Regardless, the springs contribute to something that looks like a rib cage.
Omar aimed for a symmetrical look on each end of the bike, using large diameter, 21-inch wheels. While the rear assembly forms a single-sided swingarm, the front results in a hub centre-steering suspension. The handlebar is attached to the front suspension’s upright link via a shaft on ball joints.
“I’ve always been fascinated by the hub-centre steering front suspension layout ever since I saw the Elf Honda GP race bike in the 80’s, ridden by Ron Haslam. I was just a kid back then.”
Omar opened up a little more, “In my opinion, forks have their distinct shortcomings, hence the single arm setup was explored to take its place. I liked the Yamaha GTS when it came out and I feel it’s a real shame that manufacturers have not continued down that route.” (You can read about the Elf Honda and Yamaha GTS here.)
Heading downwards, the 1967 AJS engine has been either been chromed or polished to fit the overall chromed theme. It’s impossible to miss the exhaust downpipe being routed through the frame’s vertical member.
There’s a vertical lever next to the left side of the engine. Everyone had first thought it was the gear shifter, but it turned out to be the lever for the centrestand, instead. “Ah, the handshifter is overdone and too mainstream now, so I wanted to do something different.”
The powertrain arrangement’s beautiful simplicity is set out in plain sight. A primary drive chain transmits power from the crankshaft to the dry clutch, whose shaft is also the input shaft to the gearbox. But Omar performed some modifications to the final drive. “The final drive chain exits on the left side originally, but I can’t let it run on the outside (left side) of the wheel. So I attached the final drive to an idler shaft to drive the sprocket on the right side.”
The rear wheel’s hub carries the rear sprocket and disc brake.
The result is an organic-looking bike. To Omar’s and his peers, the Bone-X looks skeletal, thereby earning its namesake. However, to the unitiated Joe Public, the bike resembles something inspired by H.R. Giger’s biomechanical concepts.
To our eyes, the Bone-X is as good as it gets, but in the eyes of the artist, there’s room for improvement. “Certain parts of the bike still need better finishing. It looks alright under the lights currently, but we are required to also display the bike outdoors in Germany. It’s during this instance when the imperfections will stick out like sore thumbs.”
“I do hope there are kind souls out there who sees the importance of a Malaysian bike actually competing at the international show. I wouldn’t want to embarrass Malaysia with an unfinished bike, and while it’s hard for me to say this, I will appreciate sponsors who could assist me in completing the Bone-X. it’s time we step out from being Jaguh Kampung,” hopes Omar.
Omar is fully dedicated to the Bone-X now, as The One bike for him. As for us and together with Omar, we hope Bone-X will be The One in the hearts of the international judges and peers in Germany.
Do follow this story all the way to Intermot in Germany.
Para pembina yang berada di Krautmotors dari Jerman telah membina sebuah skuter elektrik buatan khas BMW C Evolution yang dinamakan “E-LisaBad”.
Ditugaskan oleh BMW Motorrad sendiri, pembina buatan khas utama kelahiran Jerman, Rolf Reick, berjaya membina salah sebuah motosikal elektrik buatan khas yang tercantik sekali sepanjang zaman.
Direndahkan serta dilengkapkan dengan tayar perlumbaan yang licik, skuter BMW C Evolution ini menghasilkan sekitar 72Nm tork dengan serta merta; 9Nm lebih daripada skuter BMW C650 Sport.
The folks over at Krautmotors in Germany have constructed a custom BMW C Evolution electric scooter dubbed the “E-LisaBad”.
Assigned by BMW Motorrad themselves, lead custom German builder Rolf Reick succeeded in building one of the most beautiful custom electric motorcycles of all time.
Lowered and fitted with some racing slick rubber, the BMW C Evolution produces around 72Nm of torque instantly; 9Nm more than the BMW C650 Sport scooter.
One look at this bike and you know the future of electric motorcycles is heading towards the right direction. What started out as the BMW C Evolution electric scooter, the geniuses over at Krautmotors were given the rare opportunity to customise this very special two-wheeler made by BMW Motorrad. (more…)
