“I think aesthetically you have a whole new set of parameters to work with on an electronic bike. The fastest bike at Pikes Peak was an electric bike, that says something. “Anything that gets the blood going, and the throttle hand twitchy.
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I rode it on the street and it’s hard to keep the front wheel on the ground. They built a flat tracker out of that thing, and a super moto out of it. “Yeah for sure, I had a blast when I rode the Harley LiveWire, and I had a chance to ride the Alta, that thing is mad. What about electric bikes, do those serve your passion? “If the bones aren’t correct then you won’t have a good bike.” Roland Sands – TZ Yamaha frame is beautiful in its purposeful simplicity Roland Sands – An array of different custom tanks Custom bikes are all about getting the bones of the bike correct, and then putting everything on, all the pretty stuff, after that. Trying different parts like a front fork, or a tail section or a fender eliminator, or wheel sizes. “We’ll mock stuff up, we’ll put pieces together and work to get the silhouette right.
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Most of the time I’m down there working with my guys working out how to put everything together. “It’s a little of everything, if I’m selling a bike or have an idea, I’ll have it all rendered out so we know where we’re going. With designing do you prefer sketching and scribbling or do you put some metal together and check what it looks like? Or is it mostly computer based. I like to do it all, with motorcycling you don’t have to do one thing, you can do a lot of different things.” Roland Sands road raced for nearly a decade and won the 1998 AMA 250 Grand Prix Championship I ride motocross and a bit of everything now. I mean I’d still love to go back, and I still have a few flat trackers. 80 per cent of these have been big V-twins but the 9T was the first BMW.”īased on the worldwide appreciation Bavarian Fistfighter has received, it looks highly likely the 80% figure given to working on other makes of motorcycle will drop considerably in favour of BMW Motorrad machinery in the future.“Flat track is a totally different deal, I went from two-stroke GP bikes, to Harley-Davidson customs. Since he formed Rough Crafts at the end of 2009, how many custom projects has he laid his magic across? “I never counted how many bikes I’ve built. With this comes more commissions, more ideas and, of course, more late hours. Winston Yeh’s Rough Crafts is growing in terms of popularity and appreciation. It’s not what people are used to but this doesn’t mean it’s wrong!”
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I say it’s because it works without it and works with the bike. Ok, probably the part I really like is the part that isn’t there, and this is the part that most people don’t like! Everybody asks me why there is no tail section. It is all about trying to harmonise the bike. Winston: “When I design a bike I try not to make any one thing stand out. Like when he removed the standard airbox, he had to have somewhere to place the electronics, so he made a new, camouflaged unit to hold them. Winston didn’t remove any of the main electronics but has carefully hidden them. Finally, he speaks and the words instantly point to what makes his work so obviously his – it’s the way everything new is added or modified to fit as a functioning piece as if it was a standard factory item. Asked what part of Bavarian Fistfighter stands out in his mind as the component that summarises the finished machine, Winston pauses for thought.