Ducati Test Drive

My friend Casey from Velvet Oven stopped by yesterday to take the Ducati for a spin....          
He approves!!!

The Beezerker can be yours!

Someone find this poor lady a bathroom...  Looks like she needs to pee!  ;)

The past two years have been simply amazing thanks to the impact the Beezerker has had on the motorcycle world and the design world. Seen by thousands and thousands around the world and praised for it's timeless style the Beezerker is responsible for opening so many eyes to what is possible when you devote yourself to uncompromising design and craftsmanship.

I could not be more proud to call this bike mine.

Lucky for all of you the time has come to give someone else the pleasure of owning a motorcycle that will surely be remembered for ages to come.  Please take a look and help spread the word that the Beezerker is available on eBay:

The Beezerker on eBay

Thank you for looking and spreading the word!

Chris

Golden Week

I'm big in Japan!

I have been busy with too much to do these days but I was able to skip out of town to spend Golden Week with my sweet heart in Tokyo. With three national holidays crammed into one week there were lots of festivals and activities to choose from. We were even able to fit in a trip to Odaiba to see some trippy architecture, Gundam, and the Mooneyes car show. Other days were spent picnicking in Yoyogi park, lots of dinners and drinks with friends, museums, book stores, noodles, design showrooms, China town, digging bamboo for dinner in Chiba, and even a visit to Gonpachi for a very special birthday dinner.

Okay, now back to work!!!

Does this make my ass look big?

After a bunch more welding, grinding, and sanding today I finally got the swing arm and rear tire on the Ducati for the first time ever. Now I can start working on the tail piece and tank!

I've had enough!

I am tired of being secretive about my current Ducati build. The teacher instinct in me wants to share and let people see and learn. It's no fun designing and building in a vacuum which is what I feel these top secret builds become... A sucking vertex your stuck in all by yourself! This being said I welcome all input and advise you guys may have... Continuing to learn is key to me and my creative process so please critique.

So for the past month solid I have been cutting, bending, welding, grinding, and then welding and grinding some more to fabricate the front end of the Ducati. I enjoyed designing and building the girder fork on the Beezerker so much that I decided I wanted to try my luck at it again but this time put all I learned previously into the design of this fork.

The Ducati is a fat tired bobber cafe sort of a bike and being that the front tire is a 160 I needed a design that was going to stand up to such a menacing tire.

What you see here is the product of more hours than I care to recall right now. Today was the first time I ever put the front end on the bike and I have to admit I could not be more excited.

This bike will have no paint on it what so ever so my metal work has to be top notch which I am discovering is easier said than done!

It's actually hard to go home for the night now because all I want to do is finish this thing and ride it :)

Sitting Pretty

I have been making slow but steady progress on both the Ducati project as well as the Triton project. Put the Triton together as a roller for the first time last week and I have to say I am really pleased with it's stance.

Thank you Seattle!!!

The Beezerker and I had a wonderful week end at the Ultimate Builder Competition. We walked away with the Peoples Choice award as well as First Place in the Freestyle category.... It was a kick as week end!!!!