Apocalypse tomorrow The team at Droog Moto have a knack for designing bikes with a unique flavour. The bulky tyres, the dark colour schemes and the overall ominous looks of their bikes are clear trademarks of the Washington team. The owners first name ‘Max’ is well deserved and fits the image of … [Read more...] about Droog’s Hayabossa
Ron Betist
Born in Amsterdam in the middle of summer 1958, Ron naturally has a sunny character too.
With a father heading the motorbike division of the Amsterdam police force between the sixties and the eighties, Ron grew up with oil in his veins and petrol in his head.
Riding bikes was all he could dream of as a young boy. Illegally riding his father’s BMW at the age of 12, his dad’s colleagues seized him and impounded the bike. A surprised father saw his colleagues riding his own bike to the police station.
After riding police bikes for nearly seven years, Ron moved on mid-eighties to a commercial life in international entertainment for nearly two decades. He became an expert on marketing and sales the last ten years specializing in B2B lead generation.
But that’s ‘just’ his profession. Motorbikes and everything surrounding it is his true passion. He has been [legally] riding for nearly forty years and has had many different sets of wheels. He loves the design and technique of Ducati, the classiness of BMW and the bulliness of Harley Davidson. However, Ron has a British heart:
“I am married to Triumph, but Norton is my mistress”, he will answer when asked about his preferences. Ron is much more a rider than a technician. With a sound understanding of the technique, he can ‘read’ a bike. Taking it apart is not a problem for him, but putting it back together is. So, don’t leave him alone in your shed with a wrench in his hand…
Riding it is and that’s what he lives for.
Whatever the bike or whatever the conditions he will “Always ride in style”.
Tokyo Nights and the best of all worlds
FIVE HUNDRED HOURS were spent building this dream machine. Life started off as a relatively modest Honda CB900 FF back in 1981. When its current owner, Minneapolis resident James Berrau, purchased the machine he was planning to execute just a few changes to transform the bike into a … [Read more...] about Tokyo Nights and the best of all worlds
RnineT by UNIKAT 1/1
Always build in CAPITALS! Our friends from the Polish outfit have every right to write their company name in capitals. But just as much to use the capital ‘T’ indicating their latest build! The creativity of this gang from the Southwest of Poland is extraordinary. The bikes that leave the … [Read more...] about RnineT by UNIKAT 1/1
CB 350 F fueled by Riko
We put it in the layaway For some mysterious reason this project ended up at the bottom of our stack and remained there for too long. With our sincere apologies to our friend Riko Loos we decided it was still a bike worth publishing a post on. It is not so often we get to write about a Honda … [Read more...] about CB 350 F fueled by Riko
Three of a kind (but very different)
Spanish styled Yamahas “Why submit one if you can write about three in the same post”? That’s what Juan Carlos from San Sebastian based Café Racer SSpirit answered to my question why he wanted us to write about the bikes featured in this article. He had sent us a note about the bikes and … [Read more...] about Three of a kind (but very different)
