Custom Bikes Of The Week: 22 January, 2017

A classy Moto Guzzi Centauro from the USA, a racy BMW K100 from Japan, and a brawny Honda CB750 from Vietnam. Let’s end the weekend right…
Moto Guzzi V10 Centauro by Craig Rodsmith The 90s isn’t a decade we typically look to for donors. But hand a late-90s Moto Guzzi V10 Centauro over to Craig Rodsmith, and magic happens.
Craig’s an Australian who’s lived in Illinois for twenty years?and although he considers himself more of a mechanic and machinist, he’s become renowned for his metal shaping. So when the owner of the Moto Guzzi wanted something with a more traditional café racer flavor, Craig got busy.
He hand-shaped a new tank, tail, front fender and headlight from aluminum, and fabricated a new subframe to match. He also reworked the original, stainless steel exhaust headers?terminating them in Cone Engineering mufflers?and built a pair of velocity stacks. Craig usually paints his own bikes, but decided to call in reinforcements this time around. He handled the frame and wheels himself, but Kiel Sawusch shot the bodywork, with Brando tackling the hand lettering and striping. Dane Utech laid down some tan leather on the seat?perfectly complementing the Guzzi’s classy new lines. [More]
BMW K100 by An-Bu The Japanese custom scene loves to keep us on our toes. Just look at Koichi Fujita of An-Bu?the Nagoya-based builder’s created some pretty out-there machines, but a sharp, blacked-out BMW K100 racer" That’s n...
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