Four wheels...

My shop ain’t suitable for vehicles with more than two wheels...I though.
Never really sought after an ATV or Quad like almost all living men does.
But when such opportunity appears I´m not worse than I can change.
Got a text message with a small pic of a orange Quad from a friend with the text.
"You can have it...if you get it NOW, otherwise it goes in the bin".
An offer like that is always appealing.
Both questionable status and free, what else is there to have.
Short while after I rolled up in front of his garage, we put in the now beloved irreplaceable Berlingo and home I went.
It turned out to be a RWD 250cc Chinese Quad that have been sitting outside for a while and now he had come to an end with it.

Took a quick Visual inspection at home of the state and it resulted in:
# OEM china (plastic?) tyres with lots of cracks and puncture
# No battery
# Broken brake lever
# Cracked fenders
# Lots of rust and oxidation
# Lots...and lots of little things neding overhaul.
A lap with WD40 on all things that looked needy for that and I rolled it away for a rainy day.
Or at least when the shop is enough up and running.

But what on earth should I have it for?
Mainly just because, not a bad reason really.
But except from getting the mail with it I´m hoping to have it for plow some newly fallen snow and maybe drag some "trees" now and then.
There is no registration on it so it will never be street driven, just around my vast, vast property. #irony

Four wheels....in four wheels

Side view

The mighty front

And the ever more mighty 250cc powerplant

New inhabitant...

Another bucketlist unicorn landed.
Have been dreaming about a Suzuki XN85 since I had the posters on the wall in my boy room in the early eighties.
The feeling of driving a old turbo bike is quite surreal, the turbo kick is quite big and it starts to spool very late, especially if you're a Harley Davidson guy like me.
At 5000rpm it starts to pull and over 6000rpm its "insane".
Not insane maybe, but for me with no experience with high revving Japanese bikes is a big thing.
The name says it all, XN85 stands för 85 horsepower so its no rocketship, but it pulls unexpectedly hard when the turbo spools.

My plan was to buy more of a project bike but this is way better, actually really nice.
Do anything with this except love and take care of it is blasphemy and economic waste.

So if such project bike shows up...

Mirror lettering, so oldschool and period correct

Nice stance

"Turbo" all over the bike

The magic model

The 16" front wheel, hi tech racing equipment in the early eighties

Updates

The updates from the shop are few and far between nowdays but sometimes the ordinary life makes itself visible and stops wrenchin' temporarily.
The renovation of the house is running great, just by the plan, but not all time is spent there.
Also som quality time planning Speedshop Mk II have have appeared lately.
Did a schematic sketch over my new hideout.
The shop will be divided in three parts. Machine room, storage and workshop/garage.
Machine room is for drillpress, lathe, grinders....
That part is also divided by a curtain to keep the dirty jobs in there.
Storage is what it sounds like, a storage room. So most parts, material, good-to-have stuff  etc. will have it's place here.
Workshop/garage
Also what it sounds like.
Both where the bikes are parked and where mechanical work is done.
In here it also will be a another retreat, the Bombus chill zone equipped with stuff like music, TV, magazines, books and appropriate cold and hot beverages.

And don't be surprised if the weather smiles towards us there can be both seating and BBQ outside the shop.

Hibernation

So 2018 came with full force, but in the shop it's calm and quiet.
All my darlings will be resting for some more month.
The BMW, Burgman and the Speedster will wake up first, hopefully for the journey to the new shop.
The Zündapp and the Dragster will rest for longer time and will not make the move with their own power.
The Zündapp will be the first project out of the new shop in the spring of 2019....together with the BMW, in the shape of a Kaferacer.
But until then full focus will be on the house renovation and in a couple of months then focus will shift to building Speedshop MkII.

The Speedster

Zündapp Kaferacer...in the making

The Italjet Dragster is hiding behind a pile of junk

Moto Morini Batbaby for the little ones

BMW K75 covered up for the winter

Suzuki Burgman 125 always redo for battle

Blank canvas

This is what the area later known as Bombus Speedshop MkII looks like today.
A blank canvas, 4 meters wide and 8 meters deep.
And behind the left wall another 12+4m² that's gonna be part of the garage as well

Lots of work, but damn so fun!

Shoptruck vision

I`m blessed with many awesome friends, and one of them is a wiz with the pencil.
He have helped me many times over the years to visualize my twisted ideas, always with super result.
This time he took my beloved shoptruck, the Bombus Beater to the next level with this vision.

Thanks Kristian !

If I´m gonna fulfill this vision is kind of a catch-22.
My life will from now on be heavily focused on renovating our house and the build of Bombus Speedshop MkII with the Berlingo as a steady companion.
And when I´m "done" with my building projects more likely the Berlingo will be replaced with a more appropriate vehicle.

Swapmeet

This past weekend it was time for swapmeet again.
Me and two friends arrange this every year in November
This year held for the sixth time.

Our annual motorcycle (Harley) Swapmeet at the classic venue Rotundan in Hindås, Sweden.