You meet the nicest people building motorcycles. A few years back Luke Ray of Fuel Magazine and I took a trip to Bandung in Indonesia. After attending the Kustomfest show in Jogjakarta it became apparent that the West Javanese city was a hive of custom culture and home to many talented builders and workshops. So, after doing a bit of research, I put together a shortlist of potential motorcycle workshops to visit and started reaching out to them online.

I?d seen the work of White Collar Bikes at the Kustomfest show. Their motorcycles were some of the most impressive on display adorned in CNC milled parts, carbon fibre components and hand formed aluminium bodywork. Knowing they were based in Bandung I reached out to them first and to my surprise received a timely reply. What I didn?t realise at the time was that White Collar Bike wasn?t a workshop employing a large team of workers, which from the quality and complexity of their builds seemed to be the case. It was, in fact, the work of one man named Ram Ram and his workshop was at his home where he employed just a couple of staff to help build his meticulous custom motorcycles. Regardless of this Ram Ram welcomed us with open arms and we set a date to pay his home workshop a visit. CONTINUE READING »

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