Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 36 i Built

SUBSCRIBE FREEDOM BECKONS FOR £22 A YEAR. SEE PAGE 103 This issue feels like a bit of a celebration of getting back out there. Things are still way off from being ‘normal’ but at least we’re starting to get back into gear and enjoy the kind of lifestyle we used to take for granted. The maddest story this issue is three guys who decided it would be fun to ride their dirt trackers on the ice of Lake Baikal in Siberia. No big deal perhaps, until they realised the temperatures were higher than normal for early spring and the ice was already beginning to melt by the time they arrived. It didn’t stop them. You can read their story on page 92. Built’s roving reporter Fabio Affuso was in Italy…

VINCENT SUMMERS Ø UK SOCAL SUMMERS WHAT DRIVES A GEEZER TO FOCUS HIS LIFE ON BUILDING VINTAGE HARLEY CHOPPERS? WE DROPPED IN ON ONE OF THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS TO FIND OUT Photography by Gary Margerum We’ve featured Vincent Summers’ bikes before in Built but the stories have always been about the builds, rather the man. What makes someone become so steeped in vintage Harley choppers? We dropped in to find out. To set the scene, he’d just completed a 600-mile round trip to a Harley rally in Wales with a bunch of mates on similar vintage iron. In the pissing rain. We’re in the garage where he builds these dream choppers, looking at his own Dyna workhorse and then his chop and, believe me, there’s not a mark on…

LUDWIG Ø LOMBARDY/ITALY ASCOT by LUDWIG CUSTOM MOTORCYCLES ITALIAN BUILDER TRANSFORMS A DATED ASCOT TRACKER INTO TASTY BEACH CRUISER PHOTOGRAPHY BY GUIDO COLLA (SPAZIO 53) Custom motorcycle builders tend to be an creative, eccentric, rebellious bunch, but Riccardo Casarini is an outlier even by these standards. The owner of Ludwig, a custom business in Lombardy, Italy, is a philosopher (his degree thesis was on the aesthetics of speed), a prolific writer and a talented fabricator. “I’ve never been without wheels since I was a child and have always been interested in engines – and writing,” says Riccardo. “Thanks to a good teacher, I was introduced to the haiku of Daisaku Ikeda (a Japanese Buddhist philosopher) while at the same time I was getting my hands dirty in the family workshop.…

MONO MOTORCYCLES Ø CHICHESTER/UK WIRED Got a custom with electrical problems? Mono Motorcycles specialise in helping riders banish their wiring woes Photography by Gary Margerum If you're building a custom bike, you need to know about Mono Motorcycles. Though they specialise in electrics, they’ve created a tidy business helping home builders get their bikes over the finish line. It all started in 2016 when Dan Morris crashed his KTM Superduke and broke his shoulder. He spent the downtime reworking and rebuilding the smashed bike and later that year he restored a Ducati 916 Senna. That project finally convinced him to launch Mono. “When I started, I knew I needed to get a major company behind me, so we went with Datatool, fitting alarms and trackers for customers,” he says. With…

TMMR Ø TENNESSEE/USA BUSTING OUT IN TENNESSEE A BIKE AND MUSIC FESTIVAL AT LORETTA LYNN’S RANCH IN HURRICANE MILLS? WITH AN ADDRESS LIKE THAT, WE HAD TO DROP IN… WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY MICHAEL LICHTER The Tennessee Motorcycles and Music Revival (TMMR), is like a dream, or at least it started out that way. Now it’s a dream made real, and on steroids, with bike shows, flat-track racing, great art, incredible music, camping, test rides, and backwoods enduro trail riding in idyllic countryside. It comes from the brain of Carrie Repp, a motorcycle events consultant who came up with the idea 12 years ago. She saw it as something that would bring together fresh, new Nashville-based music and motorcycle culture. Carrie had been helping other promoters for years, but it was…

UNIK Ø LISBON/PORTUGAL Seize the day Portuguese custom crew turn to Japanese bikes and culture once again to create more Unik machines Photography courtesy of UNIK MOTORCYCLES Unik Edition’s Sakura was an unlikely creation built around a Honda CB500T (Built 33) and we were keen to see what the Lisbon-based crew did next. And here they are: two Honda builds called Inanna and Imperatrix. Unik dudes Tiago Goncalves and Luis Costa explain how they came about. “In Japanese culture ‘sakura’ is the embodiment of beauty and mortality and can be traced back centuries,” says Tiago. “No-one in history personified this metaphor more than the Samurai, the warriors of feudal Japan who lived by bushido, which was a strict moral code of respect, honour and discipline. It was their duty to…

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P&CO Ø ENGLAND MADE IN ENGLAND Built reveals P&Co’s new clothing collection PHOTOS LEE TIMMS LIMITED EDITION A2 DECK JACKET £350 This limited edition piece is crafted from 10oz Bedford cord – a heavyweight corded fabric milled using durable Pima cotton. It was inspired by the military-issued A2 deck jacket owned by P&Co’s creative director and features many of the same characteristics. These include the warm wool-mix lining, storm cuffs and a buttoned storm front. It also has plastic-free corozo buttons and a dependable YKK zipper. Each A2 Deck Jacket is designed and made in England and all are hand-stamped. Only 150 will be constructed and each are individually numbered. LIMITED EDITION 204 SELVEDGE JEANS £220 These are a limited edition – only 150 will be made. They come in…

XTR PEPO Ø SPAIN The Godfather When a customer says he’s a fan of Scorsese’s classic movie, there’s only one possible name for his uprated Ducati Monster… Photography by Cesar Godoy At the heart of Il Padrino is a brand new Ducati Monster 1200R that the owner from Tel Aviv had air-freighted from Israel to XTR Pepo’s base in Spain. “The owner wanted me to create something similar to Siluro [Pepo’s modded Monster 1200], but I don’t like to recreate any bikes I’ve built so I proposed building him something in a dirt track style,” says Pepo. Pepo delivered the bike to the customer at The Reunion at Monza where he rode it in the sprint races. The customer then rode it to an Italian port and it was shipped…

LAKE BAIKAL Ø SIBERIA/RUSSIA ICE racers of Lake Baikal Once you’ve raced flat-track in Moscow, there’s only one place to go for your sideways kicks: a vast frozen lake in Siberia… Words by Egor Stephanizhov. Photography by Michael Shegulin Courtesy of El Solitario My friends Peter Tyushkevich, Mikhail Kholodov and I have always loved bikes, whether it’s building, travelling, or motocross. But flat-track was a game changer. When we discovered an old speedway track 180 miles from Moscow we decided to build three bikes, one based on a two-stroke Soviet IZH Planeta Sport, a Kawasaki KX450 DTX and a Triumph T120R – Peter got this from Born Free co-founder Mike Davis in the States and after drowning it in a pond in St Petersburg and rebuilt it with a Trackmaster frame.…