REBUILT LIKE A GUN. Lembinc?s ?The Varial? Royal Enfield Bullet Boardtracker
Written by Marlon Slack
One of the best things about running a motorcycle blog are the friends that we make around the world. We?re on solid beer-drinking terms with builders in the US, across Europe and Australasia. But the guys that we really love are the mad buggers from Indonesia, like the team from Lembinc, who?ve crafted up one of the most kickass Royal Enfield Bullets we?ve ever seen.
Java?s Lembinc is headed by Rizqi Patama. And the cheeky bugger isn?t even a fabricator or bike builder by trade. He works for a design agency. Although it has to be said the highlight of his year is designing the Sekepal Aspal MotoArt Exhibition in Jakarta, a huge event that brings together all the best builds from across the archipelago.
But thankfully for us, by night he turns his talents to bike building. And he?s really into the design angle, with plenty of time spent planning a build before lifting a hammer. ?I made a lot of sketches for this project,? he says, ?For me, sketches are a must?. So he nutted out the plan on photoshop to determine the direction of the build. He landed on this, a 1930?s inspired board tracker. Black or chrome"
Despite the hours slogging away in Photoshop, when the design was finalized Rizqi went about things in a decidedly old-fashioned way. ?I made a 1:1 scale drawing on my garage wall,? he says, ?I know it sounds like an old way of doing things, I believe that nothing in the world can beat the human feel and sense. I drew it to feel every sing...
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