Tri Apartment Tracker

If inwards a projection you lot bring together to a greater extent than talking heads in addition to and thus seeks advice from a Flat Track freak similar Gary Inman (Sideburn Magazine), hither is a repose in addition to peaceful HONDA CB400T 1980 is transformed into a lite in addition to fun bike.

This built is a collaboration projection past times Bandisca Motorcycles amongst the greek people of The Real Intellectuals in addition to Caferacercult.gr in addition to this sentiment born later the custom motorcycles Athens demonstrate The Wheel to Build in conclusion May.

Bandisca Motorcycles from Bucharest are an independent custom store based inwards Bucharest, they work basically inwards novel trend custom tendences over 70s-80s Japanese in addition to European bikes.

We asked them to explicate this project:

Niko told me that he wanted to built a apartment tracker bike for racing adjacent yr at the Dirt Quake in addition to other European Union events in addition to wanted us to built it, was a large surprise for us because in that place are a lot of practiced builders inwards Hellenic Republic but Niko loves our trend in addition to wanted us to survive the builders, in addition to of course of report nosotros appreciated that thus much.

Where did it come upwards from?
So nosotros started to seek a donor bike, the budget was express in addition to later 2 months, Leo from Caferacercult.gr offered us a junk Honda CB400T that he had somewhere inwards his shed, the bike was dissasembly in addition to the engine was burnt but it was complete…. that was… nosotros become to Athens at the destination of June to choice upwards the iron, was a funny weekend amongst Leo in addition to Niko trying to define how nosotros could construct a apartment tracker bike amongst such a junk, haha, but I said them nosotros volition create it (not real 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 in addition to tuned for other project, in addition to no fucking sentiment close how to construct a apartment teracker bike, I never built i before… So nosotros kickoff to investigate, equally Romania has a potent tradition of speedway racing amongst that one-time Jawas that run amongst ethanol in addition to inwards around aspects speedway seems similar apartment tracker nosotros heared around advices from speedway pilots that allow us know how a speedway bike mus survive raced in addition to what is of import for sideways….

A lot of information comming also from Gary Inman from Sideburn that helped us amongst tyre issues in addition to 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 aught from the CB frame was practiced for that… thus I became angry in addition to when that happens is ameliorate me to beingness far from the grinder… inwards this representative the grider was beside me… thus y cutting everything from the CB frame, keeping only the fundamental stamped column…. I posted around pics in addition to Niko entered inwards panic… haha!!
What did you lot create to the bike?
So the province of affairs was: we've got the fundamental column of the CB, a CB400N total overhauled engine in addition to a overnice tank from a Kawasaki g7ss „stolen" from the Niko's store!… a practiced begining!!

Ok, agreement that nosotros own got no issues amongst the engine, nosotros could focus on the frame design, my married adult woman Mihaela spent several nights checking apartment tracker bikes in addition to trying to pattern a frame shape for this built… in addition to later i calendar week we've got an idea… the Mihaela's pattern meant that nosotros must rennounce to the twin daze nurture pause in addition to construct a monoshock one… no thus bad because anyway the CB was also brusque for our proposes in addition to nosotros would demand to long it a niggling bit, thus nosotros designed an one-time trend monoshock nurture fork in addition to nosotros kickoff to construct in addition to weld every elements… later the function the bike began to survive something closed that what nosotros wanted.

A employment was the tail, mi married adult woman hates the traditional apartment tracker tails thus she designed something unlike but…. how tha fuck I would create that if I own got no sentiment of working on fiberglass?… the alluminium was the answer, I shaped the tail inwards alluminium… I ordinarily create that only amongst fenders but I tryed… later 2 sheets of alluminium junked I got the shape designed and… surprise!! also fitted on the frame!!

At pause marking nosotros used a fully setable YSS nurture daze in addition to a Yamaha SR500 front end fork amongst 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 amongst a vintage handlebar that I got years agone from an one-time 70's Husqvarna that went to the junk in addition to from what I took around parts before, I ever loved that handlebar but only straightaway on this projection I flora the proper house for it.

Ok, the bike was almost built but… I didn't desire batteries or complicate electrics on it in addition to the CB400N engine I got was an 85 non kickstarter model, thus the in conclusion stride was to own got the kickstarter assy from the eighty CB400T donated past times Leo in addition to set it on the 85 engine… seems slow but on fact nosotros uncovering that our 85 was a 6gears model in addition to the eighty was a 5gears model… the kickstarter pinion is non the same… shit again!!! nosotros was i calendar week something to The Rotten Race in addition to nosotros couldn't hold off for the business office comming from our provider inwards Germany… thus nosotros went to the turner in i lawsuit to a greater extent than in addition to made a custom one…

Ok, we've got the frame, the nurture fork, the torso elements, the engine…. nosotros would demand wheels!!! I kickoff to seek for nineteen wheels noticing that no i measure fitted our bike… shit!! nosotros needed to construct them!! later seeking for components nosotros detect that hubs are thus expensive, spokes are thus expensive, rims are thus expensive… nosotros needed to create something that don't drive us neither Niko to the bankruptcy… thus nosotros kickoff to hold off for rims in addition to I could uncovering 2 practiced KTM 36 spoke 19×2.15 rims, nosotros needed in addition to thus to uncovering 36 spoke proper hubs, for the nurture later a lot of tests I couldn't uncovering a 36 spokes hub that allowed us to align the transmission chain in addition to the wheel inwards a proper means amongst the fork I built… later a menstruation of despair, i morning time I saw a hub inwards a box at the shop, was an one-time Gilera 36 spokes hub that fitted perfect!! in addition to also had a practiced brake rotor, nosotros solely needed the nurture sproket that finally nosotros needed to custom built for that because was impossible to uncovering 520 or 525 sprocket for that hub, but nosotros built it!! For the front end nosotros used a DR600 hub.

Tell us close 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 amongst a vintage handlebar that I got years agone from an one-time 70's Husqvarna that went to the junk in addition to from what I took around parts before, I ever loved that handlebar but only straightaway on this projection I flora the proper house for it.

The resultant of thus much function is a apartment tracker As a bike it is done for sideways in addition to plough left fast, in addition to it Achieves the target thus nice.

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