Written by Andrew Jones
Igor Teeken has been a motorcycle addict for as long as he can remember. ?I was drawing motorcycles with my friend Jos Deckers in primary school; a hardtail Harley as I recall.? In his pre-teen mind, that was the absolute coolest bike he could think of. ?Then I bought my first bike on my 17th birthday. I started with some Honda XLs and then moved on to a CBX750F, a Suzuki DR-Big and some big cross-Europe rides. I welded up new subframes and luggage holders at the blacksmith’s were I was working at the time.?

Although he makes his living in the air-con trade, Igor built a workshop at home so he could create the things filling up his head. ?I had an intermezzo with wood for a while but I’ve been back in love with steel for a few years now. With the practical knowledge gathered in the past, I’ve built a few bikes. I called them Signbike 1 and 2 because my last name means ?sign? in English.
Igor had so much fun racing his previous bike at Glemseck 2016 that he bought a worn out bike 4 days after the race and immediately started to build the Signbike 3, a.k.a. ?SB3?. ?I found the bike just 30km from home, but in very bad shape. It had been standing outdoors for ages, but thankfully it ran after connecting it up to a car battery.?
The SB3 is a ?retro tech-style cafe racer?, specially built for the 1/8 mile sprint at Glemseck. It’s a 1984 Honda CBX750F, just like the first bike road bike had 30 years ago. ?I wanted to race the 1/...