Scout Bobber Build-Off Full-Fairing Cafe Racer. Pj Grakauskas

This is i of the iii finalists inwards the Indina Motorcycles Sout Bobber Built-Off competition
On a tranquillity suburban street exterior of Cleveland, Ohio, patch his married adult woman too ii boys are audio asleep within the house, PJ sits nether a unmarried low-cal inwards his 10x12 shed toiling away on his motorcycles. Looking in, it tin locomote hard to imagine how he has built the immaculate café racers that deport his refer inwards such a minor space, only they had to decease done, too this was his infinite to laid them. When y'all laid bikes because it’s your passion, y'all don’t laid excuses.

Through his younger days, he raced dirt bikes inwards several local Ohio circuits until a span pretty serious crashes Pb to his divergence from the sport. The thrill of speed too passion for motorcycles, however, would never leave. Now Grakauskas plant equally a security inspector for the Occupational Safety too Health Administration (OSHA), inspecting labor sites to ensure they run across the highest security standard.

Like many amateur builders, PJ’s past times builds direct maintain been vintage heaps that he saved from the junker or crashed bikes that he could relieve too redesign. Building a custom on a novel platform won’t locomote the exclusively outset for PJ, though—he’s never built an American V-twin. And believe it or not, this is likewise the outset fourth dimension somebody has given him $10,000 too a gratis motorcycle.

For this competition, PJ is edifice a full-fairing café racer out of his Scout Bobber. He volition locomote making the entire fairing past times mitt inwards his shed, equally good equally upgrading functioning components similar suspension, brakes, intake too exhaust. As beautiful equally this cycle volition await when it’s all finished, PJ assures us it volition ride fifty-fifty better.