BUBBLE VISOR: 29 Jul 2014

29 Jul 2014

R9T.JP

Love this project! BMW Japan invited 4 Japanese custom builders. Free to create their own custom R nine T as they wish...! Check it out, very impressive line up!

Shiroh Nakajima established the custom shop, Ritmo-Sereno, in 2001. Now, having left the Ritmo Sereno shop, he started his new personal studio, 46Works, located in Yatsugatake, Japan. I tried to find pictures of his R nine T but I did not find a good one... yet! Check his R9T video here

Hideya Togashi won the Best Of Show Motorcycle award at the 2006 and 2007 Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show. He started Hidemo or Hide Motorcycles in 2003. Yesterday Hideya posted a sneak peak of his R nine T on instagram. Check his R9T video here

The Bratstyle shop opened in 1998. Go Takami of Brat Style is very much into Vintage MX-style custom motorcycles lately and competes in the Twinshock MX Race while busy manufacturing his Brat Style custom motorcycles. Pics of the killer dirt track R nine T are starting to circulate around the web. Check his R9T video here

Kaichiroh Kurosu won the Best Of Show Motorcycle prize two years in a row at the 2012 and 2013 Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show!! He openend his shop Cherry's Comapany in 2000. Can't wait to see what he has done with the R nine T. Onhis instagram there are some vague pictures of he bike. It looks like a wild beast. Check his R9T video here

Check out the R9T.JP website. Very nice to read/follow how each builder builds his own RnineT custom. In August the 4 bikes will be shown to the public.

Dirt Quake 3 - part 18 - the end

Hubert Bastié and Maxime Petit-déjeuner aka the Mario Brothers both asked me to ride their 2 strokes. Maxime asked me on Saturday if I wanted to try his 125 vespa deathtrap. It tried to kill me but I survived, ha! That was the scariest thing I've riddin so far, damn that thing was incredibly light, aggressive, fast and impossible to ride with that flimsie frontend. No feeling at all. It was like riding with a flat tire.. Now that I think of it, that probably was the problem. I was riding it on the (wrong side of the) road after the race. Most riders where riding on the track with almost no tire presure at all. Riding an almost flat knobby tire doesn't improve the handling very much I reckon. :)

The next day Hubert Bastié said I could try his YZ250 on the campsite in the wet grass. That was a lot of fun :) I tried to get it sideways in the grassland without crashing. I failed miserably and I want to do it again. :) This was my first time on a proper dirttrack bike. No grip at all of course with the dirttrack tires on the wet grass so just before we went back to Amsterdam I had my share of dirt and fell of the Yamaha 2 times. I could not wipe that smile off my face the rest of the day. Thanks dudes for the ride! And thank you Dirt Quake for organizing this great! I'm hooked!

Dirt Quake 3 - part 17

On Saturday my camera battery was empty so I recharged it at the bar. The pics starting from the melting car I made with my pocket camera.