Reader submittal. Kawasaki Wayne Gardner "Moriwaki" Replica!

A reader with some serious skills (who wishes to remain anonymous) has sent in some of his OUTSTANDING build pics!! First off his Wayne Gardner Moriwaki Replica! For a little background on the original beastthat this bike was based on please take a look HERE. What an awesome machine and what a great replica.

The next 3 days will feature his AMAZING bikes so please stay tuned!

And thank you very much sir for these fantastic photographs.

Really nice 1982 Suzuki GS1100E

On of the bikes on my personal "all time" list.

A nice selection of XS650 Streettrackers

Sweet little Sportster scrambler..

Reader Submittal.

Recieved a fantastic link today from custom bike builder Jean François Vicente. Shame on me for not knowing about him He does amazing work!

He Writes:
Hi,
I have been hand building one off special bikes for fifteens years.. inclosed are some samples. Take a look at http://vicente-design.com/
Regards
Jean François Vicente

Merci Beaucoup Jean Francois!

Radical Honda CB250 Cafe Racer!

Yamaha R5 Cafe Racer and Friday Eye Candy!

Really nice Yamaha R5 Cafe Racer... and friends. Really creative build. There's a great build thread over HERE on the 2 Stroke World Board . Check it out!

The Barry Sheen Yamaha... coming full circle!

A year or so ago when I started this little hobby I didn't really have a lot of material to work with so I figured I start out with what I had. The best pics I had were all 2-strokes (my first love) so I posted a really excellent picture of Barry Sheen's Yamaha GP bike. I thought it was a TZ750 but it was really a YZR500. Anyway, since then I've come a long way and made some great online friends who've contributed most of the best stuff on here.

Well today has come full circle (so to speak) because I was sent some excellent pictures from my favorite new blogger Mike Stuhler of the excellent stusshotes blog. Low and behold what do I find in my e-mail! God I do love this bike.

But even after reading up on it a bit I still find it hard to think of Barry Sheen on a Yamaha. Here's one of his rides on the crispy side after a wreck.
He was such an icon on those Suzuki's that my minds eye can't see him on much else. But then again Rossi started wining on a Honda and now he's with Yamaha himself so I guess times aren't that different after all.. LOL

Really Nice Sportster Cafe Racer.

This bike is so cleanly built that it makes me wonder why Harley doesn't just build something similar. A tank, a seat, a stylish pipe, some clipons and smaller gauges and presto! Instant follow up to the XLCR. Hell they could even use the XR1200 engine and give it some go.

Nahh... makes too much sense.

Sweet Reader Ride. 1982 Custom Katana.

Reader Steve Adams sends in the pis of his fantastic 1982 Katana.

Steve Writes:
Hi,Just happened upon your blog, some cool bikes on there! Heres my 1982 Suzuki Katana with loads of mods (can you spot them?) it took 18 months to build, what do you think?

Judging by the upsidedown forks, the swingarm, the Ohlins shocks, the brakes, the very trick looking pipe and what is no doubt extensive engine mods.... I think that it's the nicest Katana I've ever seen!

Really fantastic work!! Thanks for the pics!

A Pair of "Twins" Guzzi porn.

Fantastic custom Triumph Thruxton

One SICK Triumph Tracker.

Royal Enfield Interceptor. My Favorite British Classic.

Out of all the great British classics my favorite hands down doesn't come from Norton or Triumph or even Brough or Vincent. It's the Royal Enfield Interceptor. I've never ridden one but in the looks department its the cream of the crop for me. The perfect balance of chrome, posture and line. For more on the bike check out the Motorcycle article HERE

Classic Kawasaki Flat Trackers. Carry over post from my 2-stroke site...

Like I've said before sometimes I get stuff over on my 2-stroke blog that's just too good not to "cross-over" to here. Hope ya don't mind..

My new favotite blogger Mike Stuhler of the excellent STUSSHOTS blog sends in these fantastic pics of a bike I've been enamoured with for years. I've actually posted a small grainy version of that beautiful green and white tracker somewhere on here before but it was a really rough shot. These come straight from the source and the detail is revealing. Reverse cylinder top end, big gulping roundslides, nicely tucked in chamber and some sweet fab work.

Mike Writes:

Hey Steve- Here are a few shots for you that might be of interest to you.Back in late 74/early 75 Erv Kanemoto--who went on to tune World Championship teams for Spencer, Lawson, Gardner, Kocinski and several other somewhat well-known racers, put together a couple of H2 triples for flat tracking, in the hopes of trying to compete against the upcoming and omni-present XR750 onslaught that was about to overtake and dominate American Class C flat track as it was known in the day.Kanemoto was a genius in putting together some of the finest, let alone fastest bikes of the day. This particular little gem of a project involved a Champion frame, Ceriani front end w/ what I believe were Akront aluminum rims. The mags were just starting to be regarded as enough of a weight and time savings, but only a few guys were running them, hence the standard spoke rims. As you can see he ran both on this sweet little piece. I'm not familiar enough with the technical aspects of what he did do in the way of porting/polishing this jewel, but it was pretty much a rocket ship. But, like the TZ that Roberts won Indy with--a week later after the Terre Haute shots attached were taken--they just wouldn't hook up on a dirt track real well. And the power band on these were even more of a lightswitch then even the TZ turned out.But man, if you were a 2 stroke head, and I definitely was and still am, these things sounded f...in wicked.These shots attached were a few I took that historical week. Donnie Castro was just out of a contract from the Yamaha super team as they went it alone with KR that first year. So Erv enlisted Donnie at several races--Terre Haute, Indy, and Syracuse--on the eastern swing, and also had Scott Brelsford at Syracuse as well. Neither qualified in at any of those races that I remember.I've attached some shots of Donnie and the H2. The color shot is from TH and in the far left you can see the brim of Castro's hat, and the dude in the sunglasses is former #9, Gary Nixon. The others are of Donnie at TH and Indy during practice/time trials--again in August '75. I've got some other b/w shots of both DC and Brelsford from Syracuse, but I'll save those for another time and another surprise!
Mike

Can't Wait! I always wondered about the timing of these bikes in relation to King Kenny's dream machine. I can only dream what THAT matchup would have sounded like. Thanks Very Much for filling in the history on these awesome rides.

Another nice XS650 roadracer... with some Friday Eye Candy!

Freaking sweet Norton.

Discovered some great new blogs.

A couple of new absoluly MUST READ bloggers have come to my attention. The first is Mike 'Stu' Stuhler who commented over on my 2-stroke blog. He runs Stusshots. To quote his profile he's "Fan of all racing, but the bikes are what makes the adrenaline flow and the rush set in."

While drooling over some of his work I tripped across a friend of his. Make sure to stop by and visit Larry Lawrence at The Rider Files for some fantastic photography and more importantly, the stories that go with the pictures.

I've been doing some serious wrenching on my Project -X so ther'll be some updates there later and I'll have more on both blogs later today!

Peace.

Nicely Done XS650 Cafe.

Love the front drum brake. It puts the modern exhaust can a little out of place but the trackday he was at probably had sound limit restrictions.