Monday, April 19, 2010

secret bike, it's done and was delivered...

ok, i had to keep it secret and i still should...oh well, i'll give it a try...shinya had been working on one of the Ducati superbikes and it's finally done! 

a couple of years ago he did "bantam", a 2000 model twincam Harley-Davidson for first time, and he has done a couple of newer model sportsters for racing back in those days in japan. but basically, as you know, he specializes in old motorcycles simply because he loves them.

although he feels great respect for superbikes, he wasn't so interested in those modern (when he says modern it means 1990's~2010) bikes because he just couldn't find anything he liked. so he said "i think i will make something i like by myself!" that's how all the customizations and modification started, right?

shinya loves motorcycles and always respects its original designs. that's the basis of his idea and it's going to stay that way no matter what he creates. but it was quite a challenge for him to work on a modern bike with tons of wires and computers. ♪aarrgghhh♪ while he was working on this Ducati, he often said dispiritedly "oh, i miss old motorcycles so much! they are so simple and much friendlier! i can ride, fix, ride, fix, and ride forever!!" but he also said, "i'm glad that i took a chance to work on the modern bike. now i went through and i take great pride in announcing that I LOVE OLD MOTORCYCLES!"

anyway, we delivered the bike to the owners yesterday. they were all happy. the bike will debut next month by the owner so i'd wait to post more details and pictures until then. but here it is. the name of the bike is "EDGE." it's super frightening fast and yes, that's the exhaust.



最近こそこそと秘密に製作していたDucatiのスーパーバイクが完成しました。来月オーナーの方によってデビューするそうなので、本当はまだ公開してはいけないでしょうけれども、少しだけ。どこを開けてもとてつもない束のワイヤーやコンピュータがどっさり、日々戦い。でも完成!

14 comments:

Chris said...

Looking forward to it!

Blacksheep said...

Yes! What an exciting challenge, very brave! I will be very interested to see how you dealt with the radiator and water hoses.

Dylan Hoey said...

Let's see it!!!!!!!!!

Bastybikes said...

Looking at the lines of the tank and heck i would say ducati 749/ 999 ...:)

funny because right now i am also working at ducati 916... making it one aluminium cafe racer ....inspired by mike hailwoods fairing ...
keep on the good work ...

Anonymous said...

Very cool. Itll be great to see to whole bike in a month.

Large wire harnesses, hoses & injection are not friendly for a clean bike.

11th Hour Industries said...

Looks good from what I can see so far!

menacing ayu said...

Chris: thank you!

Motorcycle Boy: headache, headache!

Moto.Lux: yeees!

Bastybikes: wow! can't wait to see your work.

Bozi: we just couldn't believe how much sheaf of wires it required to just make it run.

Ryan: thank you! we'll show you the whole bike later.

matt machine said...

ahhh....looks wonderful...i cant wait to see it all....

Davidabl said...

From the back it definitely has that "Tron" or "Akira"
thing going on.. About the best to be expected from
a modern bike.. I'll guess it premieres @TheQuail..
I hope to see you there?

menacing ayu said...

matt@machine: i'll put more pix pretty soon!

pushrodmofo: thank you. i'm grateful to shinya for not being afraid of a challenge.

david: not so familiar with AKIRA but sure it won't disturb my mind like other modern bikes. we'll be at the Quail, see you around!

Davidabl said...

Ayu, I guess the generation gap is showing...
"Akira' was first a manga, then an anime maybe 25
years ago. It was probably the first anime that most
of us Americans ever saw. Sci-fi stuff like the Mel Gibson movie "MadMax" but in Tokyo with bosozoku
gangs. Here's the movie poster which gives an idea of what the bikes were like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Akira_movie_poster.jpg

flyin_flip said...

aha! brad pitt's new bike! beautifully done Master Shinya Kimura. Someday...

menacing ayu said...

flyin_flip: it's for somebody else...

flyin_flip said...

deceived by the interwebs again, bah! i better stop websurfing and get back to work. Thank you Ayu