A THOUSAND CUTS. ADS Motorcycles? ?Plan-Z? Honda VT750RS Street Tracker
Written by Andrew Jones
Only those who’ve been on the receiving end of customer feedback will know the pain. Not, ?my coffee’s too hot? or ?I asked for extra anchovies,? feedback. Think non-binary, creative feedback. Architects know it. Graphic designers know it. And unsurprisingly, custom builders know it. Or as New York?s David Seidman from ADS Motorcycles puts it, ?People can tell you what they don?t like, but not what they do like.? And in the case of this ?Plan-Z? Honda VT750RS tracker, Plans A, B and the rest of the alphabet were tried and scrapped before the bike – and David’s patience – was deemed finished. Can you feel the pain"
Note bottle opener on the engine case
?I?m a one-man shop,? says David from his New York base. ?People want me to build their bikes, not a crew. I work with the client to let them be part of the building experience. This adds a lot to the new owner?s involvement in a machine so they can rightly feel, at least in part, that it was created by them.? Sure, it?s a good idea in principle, but with this bike things got a little out of hand… and then they got a LOT out of hand.
As always, we asked David what style of motorbike it was. ?At one time, it was all of the above plus a few extra.? Think he’s joking" Read on. ?Right now, given the seat and bars, it?s closest to a street tracker. But maybe the under-frame muffler makes it something else… though I’m not sure what.? The dono...
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