Jacques’ Rat Bobber

Presently everyone seems to want to build a bobber, chopper or cafe racer. Personalised, hand built customs are all the rage. This is great news for us and all those who enjoy these creations. The bad news is that the fundamental principle of capitalism/marketing/sales, basing pricing on supply and demand, has reared its head. People

By |2014-01-30T06:05:06+02:00January 30th, 2014|Categories: Articles|2 Comments

Mike’s Honda CB750

I am slowly making progress with the dismantling of the wrecked 2007 Bonneville that I bought from Marnitz. There are no shortcuts available and everything has to be stripped down before the fun and creativity of building a desert sled can begin. This is the first modern generation motorcycle that I have undertaken to rebuild

By |2014-01-26T22:42:16+02:00January 26th, 2014|Categories: Articles|2 Comments

Gerard’s Vespa SS180

Whilst relaxing on holiday and contemplating how I was going to introduce our first Italian made classic scooter to feature on the blog for 2014, my scatterbrain came up with an old, simple but very influential advertising slogan; "You meet the nicest people on a Honda". To a normally wired brain this may make no

By |2014-01-23T01:01:09+02:00January 23rd, 2014|Categories: Articles|5 Comments

Rui’s BMW R65LS

It is clear that Marnitz and I are going to have our work cut out for us this year to prevent Retro Write Up from becoming a BMW airhead custom motorcycle blog. Not that we have anything against the BMWs, but we like to feature customs created from a variety of manufacturers' models and presently

By |2014-01-19T18:34:03+02:00January 19th, 2014|Categories: Articles|2 Comments

BMW R75/6 Café Racer

We have regularly voiced our dismay at the awkward appearance of BMW's unfortunate new R NineT café racer. It reminds us of the fable about a vain emperor who is duped by two weavers into believing that they would make him a suit of clothes which would appear invisible to stupid people. The weavers dress

By |2014-01-06T23:46:02+02:00January 6th, 2014|Categories: Articles|3 Comments
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