Ninja Mr. Ride
Can you lot plough a pocket-size as well as modern sports cycle into an interesting full-style cafe racer?
Combining reliability as well as shape, Flavio Vanna as well as Fabio Mattioli receive got succeeded inwards this
They together cast Mr Ride's squad as well as receive got their workshop inwards Brazil.
Let us know nigh them as well as their work.
Where are you lot coming from?
Brasil
Who else worked alongside you?
Fabio Matiolli. Togheter nosotros are "Mr. Ride".
How tin you lot depict yourself (or your team)?
Two crazy guys trying to brand a divergence at customization scene inwards a province where this action is almost impossible (laws, import taxes etc).
What inspired you lot to showtime edifice the bike?
The internship I made at Cherry's Company, owned past times Kaishiroh Kurosu, at Tokyo. When I came dorsum to Brasil, later getting inwards deport on alongside his boldness, talent as well as unique agency of thinking, I decided to showtime alongside a cycle that almost nobody utilization to develop every bit donor for a cafe racers.
I chose the Kawasaki Ninja to develop a cafe racer because I establish rattling challenging to convert a speed cycle 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 cycle into a vintage cafe racer trying to create the cycle that gave nativity to the modern Ninja inwards the past.
What did you lot exercise to the bike?
Since is rattling hard to purchase expert parts inwards Brasil, people utilization to purchase them from China. To built a unique cycle nosotros decided to fabricate every bit many parts from scratch, every bit possible. Like: fuel tank, fenders, tail, side plates, speedometer housing as well as plough lights.
If you've upgraded parts, what brand did you lot conduct as well as where from?
The principal error nosotros made was non making a question to discovery out how the frame was earlier starting. When nosotros removed all the plastic nosotros establish a bunch of hooks that nosotros needed to cutting inwards social club to develop clean the frame.
Building the bottom of the tank was rattling challenging because of the strange blueprint of the frame on this section. This utilization took to a greater extent than fourth dimension than whatever other.
Tell us nigh the finish/logos/design?
We designed the paradigm pattern particularly to highlight the lines of the project: the box-shape tank (inspired past times the onetime Kawasakis) as well as 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 inwards Tokyo.
Any unique features?
Except the speedometer, all the parts were custom made for this bike. As you lot told you lot before, nobody exercise this inwards Brasil.
Unfortunately it's hard to see, only nosotros similar a lot the radiator expansion sleeping accommodation that is hidden below the correct side plate: a whisky flask.
How would you lot depict your bike?
Cafe racer
How does the cycle ride?
It's rattling light, fun to ride as well as maneuver.
What volition you lot exercise next? New projects?
A Honda CBX 750 1989 similar nobody always saw.
Email: flaviohbvianna@gmail.com
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