2SHOT 2 kill
Here is a sneaky little preview of the 2SHOT BMW R nine-t that we have been working on over the past year. Be sure to check it out at this years Throttle Roll Street Party. More details: here.
Exponentiation R ninet
Believe it or not, it has been almost an entire year since we first received a couple of BMW R nineTs to our workshop. Avid readers may recall that the first of the two left our stable a little while ago whilst the second is now in its final hours nearing perfection with a projected completion date of early May.
Hold on to your hats coz shit is about to get real
The sheer number of hours spent on custom fabrication for this R nineT is enough to blow your brains, seriously!
Be sure to check for a full update with a spec rundown and all the juicy bits of information coming shortly.
Whisky a Go Go
In the later months of 2015, Gasoline Motor Co was approached by Jack Daniel’s Australia with a desire to build a distinctive Harley-Davidson to suit the cafe racer movement. Now, any fan of either Harley-Davidson or Jack Daniels will be able to tell you that this is certainly not the first time the two entities have joined forces let alone the creation of a custom motorcycle, thus creating quite a conundrum for Gasoline Custom Motorcycles - a group that refuses to imitate, do things by halves or submit to the realms of socially dictated norms thus the team at Gasoline were captivated to venture into the often controversial world of hybrid cafe racer Harley-Davidson culture.
Obviously not the first mash-up of its kind, heck, Harley-Davidson even manufactured its own cafe racer known as the XLCR in the late 70’s (to little popularity) but with the resurgence of racer culture and all of the associated cliches, Gasoline decided to have a go at making something strangely familiar on the ever trusty 1200 Forty-Eight sportster.
Roland Sands Designs offer a plethora of high quality after market parts for Harley-Davidsons and they certainly came through with the goods on this build by supplying some racetrack driven rearsets giving this sportster a super aggressive foot position, clip on handle bars “mounted as low as they go”, a tuck’n’roll solo bob job single seat (re-tanned in house from brown to black) and the pièce de résistance - An anodised black velocity stack air intake which has been grilled to the eye balls, with the famous two-into-one tracker-style exhaust wrapped lovingly in meters of high-temperature insulation.
Furthering to these purpose built bolt on modifications, this Sportster had its tank lifted two and a half inches, stripped back to raw steel and slapped with some custom Jack Daniels inspired vinyls designed in-house. The racer theme continues with an American-style side mounted license plate and low slung speedo the two of which fully custom fabricated and engineered to allow visibility whilst retaining a sleek custom appearance. Completing the retro cafe aesthetic is an enormous set of Firestone champion deluxe rubbers straight from the US of A. Although this Harley-Davidson remains more or less internally standard, the increased airflow thanks to the RSD high flow high performance exhaust and velocity stack intake tuned to perfection give the 73 cubic inch engine plenty of power. In accordance with the increased output, the brakes have been given some extra stopping authority with a significant adjustment and all new custom brake fluid lines and actuating bracket.
With a total build time of around three months, the amount of care, craftsmanship and attention to detail poured into this custom motorcycle has certainly pushed it into a class of its own. Featuring both old and new school design influences this Harley-Davidson is a standout in any setting and certainly turned quite a few heads whilst getting some shots taken with much thanks to the The Rocks Brewery for the use of their cool facility.
More Images here
Blast from the past - W650
It's been quite some time since we played host to this beautiful Kawasaki W650 but we were recently lucky when its owner brought the old girl in for a couple cosmetic tweaks and refinements including heat wrapping the exhaust, some new bars and a dirty big set of Firestones.
Protip: This is the very same W650 as featured in the background image on our homepage.
Getting stuck in to 2016.
We're back and swinging into 2016 like a teenager going at a box of fruity lexia, that is to say that were getting stuck in to all things motorcycle until we either pass-out or puke or both.
R NineT ×1
Have a dig at our latest instalment in our ongoing R nine T series. This BMW is straight up Sci-Fi withs its completely digital HUD centred on low slung clip ons featuring bar end mirrors with integrated indicators. Doing away with BMW's sick-fuckery the standard gold anodised forks were re-plated in black to match the rest of the bikes aesthetic along with an assortment of other components also receiving a blacked out approach. Be sure to stay tuned for further updates on our R nine T adventures or click here for just some of our other custom builds.
Cafe Racer Magazine
Issue 3 of Cafe Racer magazine is on the shelves now, check it out for a cool write up on The Rebellion, some interesting product reviews and an image of a dog riding in a sidecar.
Gasoline Barber Shop
You may have noticed a new link on the sites main navigation bar and yes, Gasoline's very own Barber Shop is now open to the public, so why not come on down and get cut whilst your wheels are serviced.
Retro update:
Grab your sweetheart and burn rubber down to the diner for a shake but don’t forget to put some tunes on that jukebox coz this custom Braaap Mercury is cruising for a bruising and reckons a square like you could enjoy a knuckle-sandwich.
As seen in previous posts, this Gasoline souped up cafe racer made its debut at The 2015 Sydney Motorcycle Show as a little bit of a showoff of what both Gasoline and a Braaap Mercury can do. Sporting a custom cream vinyl wrap with fast blue, red and black vintage pin stripes, tied together with some white walls, this machine is straight up old-school - so don’t be a spaz and sit your wazoo down on a custom tan leather seat and get tight with some awesome clip-on handle bars as you punch this rocket from here to fat-city, no sweat. And If that doesn’t razz your berries, why not cast an eyeball on The Retro’s matching cream high temp exhaust wrap or its totally boss twin tail light configuration, daddy-o.
Note: This bike is now available for purchase. Click here for further details
