Our weekly providing of {custom} motorbike information options three fashionable classics from totally different components of the world. Japan’s Heiwa MC delivers a good-looking Triumph Bonneville bobberEire’s Medaza Cycles customizes the Royal Enfield Shotgun 650, and Germany’s Woidwerk serves up a pair of contemporary BMW boxer customs.
Triumph Bonneville T100 by Heiwa Bike Kengo Kimura by no means misses. The founding father of Japan’s Heiwa Mc is a daily fixture on Bike EXIF, persistently impressing with the elegant {custom} machines that he creates.
This bobbed 2000-model Triumph Bonneville T100 is Heiwa’s newest challenge. From its slammed stance to its svelte bodywork and understated finishes, it’s a tasteful tackle the carbureted Bonneville platform.
There’s hardly an inch of this Bonnie that hasn’t been nipped and tucked. A hand-crafted gasoline tank sits up prime, sporting a tapered design that teases the traces of basic Sportster peanut tanks. Simply behind it, the subframe’s been rebuilt with a shorter and decrease design.
Heiwa shortened the entrance forks and upgraded the springs, and swapped out the rear shocks for a pair of Kayaba items. New rims had been laced to the inventory hubs with chrome steel spokes. Measure 19 inches up entrance and 16 inches on the again, they’re wrapped in vintage-style sawtooth tires from Adlert.
The tail finish of the bike additionally options neat handmade struts that hook up with the redesigned shock mounts, holding the rear fender and switch indicators. The custom-made seat displays the gasoline tank’s triangular kind whereas interfacing neatly with the fender. A signature Heiwa taillight finishes off the back-end of the bike.
Heiwa eliminated the Bonneville’s airbox, choosing pod filters mounted to Keihin CR carbs. The aspect covers are gone too, with a custom-made electronics field tucked away beneath the seat. Stacked drag-style exhausts conceal inside baffles, whereas slim handlebars and a small Bates-style headlight preserve the cockpit tidy.
Completed off with paint by N2 Auto and graphics by Lou Peace Design, Heiwa’s Bonneville bobber is completely proportioned and effortlessly cool. Then once more, we’d count on nothing much less from Kimura-san. (Supply)
Royal Enfield Shotgun 650 by Medaza Cycles Earlier this month, scores of fanatics descended on West Sussex for the annual Goodwood Pageant of Velocity. Royal Enfield was in attendance with 4 {custom} bikes primarily based on the Shotgun 650: Kingston Customized’s KingsmanPositive Shot’s SamuraiIcon’s All the time One thingand this new construct from Eire’s Medaza Cyclesdubbed the Sawn-Off Shotgun.
The Medaza workforce consists of artist and designer Don Cronin, with Mick O’ Shea and Chris Harte holding up the mechanical and engineering aspect of the enterprise. With two AMD World Championship wins underneath their belt, Medaza was tasked with constructing one thing “radical however very rideable,” since they’d be piloting the Royal Enfield Shotgun 650 up the hill at Goodwood.
Don envisioned a mash-up between conventional chopper and sportbike ideas—an unlikely mixture that someway works. The Royal Enfield’s upside-down Showa forks had been matched to a custom-built inflexible rear triangle, and the wheels had been swapped for 19F/18R spoked hoops. The up to date rear finish additionally features a {custom} brake mount, and an interior fender that may be moved forwards and backwards, to keep up even spacing with the wheel when the chain pressure is adjusted.
The bike’s sculpted bodywork is all handmade, from the headlight nacelle by way of to the tank, tail, and aspect panels. The silver flake paint is a nod to chopper styling, whereas the traces of the bodywork recall basic Japanese muscle bikes. However the place Medaza’s expertise actually shines by way of is within the numerous handmade components which can be sprinkled throughout this machine.
There are apparent highlights—like the dual chrome steel shotgun pipes and the elegant warmth shields that adorn them, and the distinctive air consumption. However there are additionally finer particulars that showcase the workshop’s artistry.
Medaza’s contact might be seen on the intricate gasoline cap latch, fender stays, and radiator mounts, plus the billet aluminum foot controls and rear grasp cylinder bracket. The entrance sprocket cowl is a murals, as are the mesh panels that fill the gaps between the gasoline tank and steering neck, and the {custom} engine mounts.
These touches are mirrored in one of many Enfield’s neatest particulars—its {custom} taillight meeting, which homes a pair of stacked LEDs.
Like all the things else Medaza fabricated for the Shotgun 650, it rides the road between artwork and engineering superbly. (Supply)
BMW R12 and R18 by Woidwerk Dubbed ‘The Velocity Sisters,’ these two BMW boxers had been created for BMW Motorrad by Ralf Eggl of the Bavarian {custom} store Waiding. With a model new 1,170 cc BMW R12 and 1,802 cc BMW R18 in hand, Ralf got down to create a pair of bikes that, whereas they aren’t similar, definitely appear like siblings.
The 2 BMWs put on near-identical liveries and trim, with delicate variations separating them. Every incorporates a headlight fairing tailor-made to its particular proportions, plus a strip on the tank that was CAD-designed, 3D-printed, and wrapped in Alcantara. Matching leather-based and Alcantara upholstery adorns the seats.
The BMW R12 (above) sports activities a trimmed tail part, with a {custom} cowl and Kellermann flip indicators. A Wilbers shock lifts the rear by 15 mm, whereas new bars and modified foot pegs fine-tune the using place.
The BMW R18 (beneath) required a bit of extra heavy lifting. Woidwerk raised and narrowed the gasoline tank, then fabricated a floating seat assist that ends in a waspish rear cowl. Hidden from view is a Wilbers shock with a 20 mm carry.
The R18 will get an extra efficiency increase, courtesy of the braking system from a BMW R 1300 GS.
Each bikes are completed off with blacked-out exhaust methods from Hattech, terminating in matching slash-cut mufflers. All the brackets and smaller bits and items that tie all the things collectively had been both CNC-machined or 3D-printed.
Lastly, the shared shade scheme is a nod to the Bavarian forests surrounding Ralf’s workshop. The design incorporates a deliberate 75/25 cut up between the quantity of white and inexperienced used—a cheeky reference to the area’s lengthy winters.
“As we are saying right here: Three-quarters of the yr is winter, and the opposite quarter is chilly,” says Ralf. “That’s the Bavarian Forest.” (Supply)
