Not ready to let go of the weekend" We’ve got the solution, and it involves a surfboard, the beach, and a cute little scooter.
This little slice of summer is called ‘El Gordo,’ [‘fat’ in Spanish] and it’s the first build from Dutch crew KRUK. Mark van Meerkerk and Ton Everaers hold down day jobs, but combine their talents after hours to make cool things.

Mark’s one of Holland’s top surfers, and works as a mechanical engineering technician and theatrical automation specialist. He’s well versed in custom motorcycles, having owned and built a bunch of them over the years.
Ton’s a graphic and audio-visual designer, and while he’s owned numerous classic bikes and cars most of his life, the custom scene is new ground for him. Both guys wrench regularly in their own sheds, but El Gordo was put together in Ton’s workshop in Delfgauw, just outside Rotterdam.
So what is El Gordo" We assumed it was a Honda Cub, but we were wrong. It’s a Super 50, a Chinese-made Cub clone imported by Super Motor Company in Amsterdam. ?It was kind of weird to chop up a brand new bike,? says Ton, ?but it saved us the hassle of rebuilding a possibly worn out engine and battling rust.?
As for the direction the guys wanted to take, that was a fairly easy decision: ?Since we?re both avid surfers and bikers, we?ve always been charmed by surf explorer bikes with board racks attached to them.?

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