Thrive: Encounter

A video from Thrive Motorcycles in Indonesia. The bike in the video is the Thrive 005 that we featured the blog. This is what they say about the film...

We believe there’s no ship built to be safe, and we're pretty sure we weren’t looking for any adventures, but risks. The film is about the noises that we've always kept in our heads, and about chasing the striking lights to burn our sinful eyes. It’s about bringing in the anxiety that shakes our hands everyday, and finding meaning between purpose and absurdity. 

It’s been three years since we put our helmets on and steered in the direction that we chose and built new meaning for our lives by creating and loving. Jakarta, the megalopolis city, has been the place that has always sparked our imagination with it’s chaos and dynamic behavior of millions of faces, spirits, and cultures. It seductiveness encourages us to silently grow our own mortality to overcome our fears and pain. 

Our motorcycle creature is a puzzle from dozens of personal curiosity, childhood bad dreams, and beautiful mistakes; crafted with respect to the connection between human and their beast. Since we realized the state of feeling safe is only temporary and the present moment is all we ever have, we'll just let ourselves drown into something we love and chase something that matters enough to our experience. 
Encounter (c) 2016 Thrive Motorcycles 
A Join(T) Effort Project with Agung Pambudi 
Directed and Filmed by Agung Pambudi 
Music by The Gaslamp Killer - Keep It Simple Stupid

Thrive 005

Radical street scrambler from Thrive Motorcycles, Jakarta, Indonesia.. Looks like a late-'80s official concept bike, if it were powder blue with a yellow seat. And that's a good thing.

The project was one of our most ambitious. Designed and built for very special friend. We've been friends for a couple of years and from that we could say he is one of the most curious graphic designer we know. 

The bike was designed over dozens of questions in his head, he is a kind of person who always wondered how to put ideas and function at the same place. It always intrigue us when we meet people who have visions and dreams, their vibes always inspire us to build something that’s not only good but also meaningful.

The discussions directing us into the ideas about two things that always cross each other, related with dualism in our life. It’s about the multiplication when two things intersected with each other. Like the good and the bad or the black and white. We always wonder what kind of spirit that live between them, we believe there must be more than only neutral circumstances. We believe if the grey area is more mysterious than you could ever think, it could be really bad and smartly good at the same time. This thought pushes us to develop a motorcycle that can be perfectly use when facing the road in a bad condition but still have her own beauty and sleekness nature from the owner’s thought. 

So we started it by creating the whole new sub frame for this little 2008 Yamaha Scorpio to achieve a clean looks under the seat and maximazing the horizontal grid. We picked an aluminum plate for the whole body panel needs in purpose to reducing the weight in a thick material plate. The engine was in a good condition when she came to our front door, but then a few parts got new replacements, and renewed the gaskets after we put it on a vapor blasting treatment to add some contrast and more value to the bike itself before the coloring phase begin. Then we added a PE 28 Carburetor so now she can breathe more fresh air and we covered the custom made stainless steel exhaust with a black exhaust wrap.

To ensure more control, we use a fatbar handlebar completed with the custom clucth and brake lever, custom dashboard with a light indicators and GPS mounting, custom light switch and start button, ended with the custom bar-end turn signal to keep a clean look on bar area. In front suspension, we used a set of Honda’s upside down forks, but we had to modified the triple trees and steering column to make it fit perfectly on a Yamaha’s chassis. For the rear, we used a Yamaha’s swingarm pair it with Showa Monoshock Suspension on a custom made unitrack system. 

For her shoes we used a pair of 18” spoke rims wrapped with Kenda’s Trial Tread Tyre and controlled by a pair of new disc brake system on a aftermarket trial hubs. We modified the original footstep by adding some detail to enhace the grips and pairing it with the chrome shifter and brake control. Then we add a custom-made skid-plate to cover the engine from dirts and rocks while she goes travelling around. There only two main colors on this bike, Gun Metal Grey on top of brushed metal finish at the aluminum panel, and black for the rest of the bike. We used three different black powder coat texture. 

As we know, maybe we can not win everything but proving and experimenting what we believe is always good for us. The ideas itself will make the output naturally stand out among others in todays attention-seeking-trend. The serene sight will deceive people from the basic purpose of the bike, and that’s what we think about this project.

Happy Christmas from Thrive, Indonesia

Bali Beach Fun

I've never been to Bali. I'm told it's like Ibiza for Aussies. This makes me want to go though. Spotted at the Deus Bali blog. A nice place to spend a few minutes. G

Deus Bali

Following a tip on Hell For Leather, came across this cute Deus Bali built 1/2 pint - or make that thimble size, Honda CB100 street tracker. BP
UPDATE: We should add that Deus Bali are stockists of Sideburn.

Indonesian Budget Barhopper

You remember Gifny from Hajarbroxx Motorcycles, right? Built the Indonesian street tracker. No, not Indiana, Indonesia. Yep, that's him. Anyway, he got back in touch.

How are you doing? I always enjoy your amazing pics on Sideburn everyday..... Just in case you want to put my latest work....It's a 1976 Honda CB100. It's a low-budgeted project owned by a friend of mine. Only swapped the swing arm with a Honda GL200, added bigger tires, and a custom Commando-style tailpiece. Engine is bored up with a 200cc piston. And just put matte paints to get the raw look. Building process can be seen at our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Hajarbroxx-Motorcycles/115078248506795?ref=ts
) ...hope you like it!
Anyway what's your paypal address? I'd like to order the Sideburn magazines....
cheers, Gifny, Hajarbroxx Motorcycles - Indonesia

Note: Barhopper is just how I'd describe this machine. I'm not saying anyone is frequenting any bars on this bike. Especially if they are good Muslims. Cup of tea, anyone? GI

Indonesia Street Tracker

Beijing earlier in the week, now Indonesia. This Street tracker thing is going wild. Can someone tell us why we're not rich yet? Anyway, love this little budget fella we were emailed today.

Dear people at Sideburn magazine, I'm Gifny Richata from Indonesia, and I just want to show you some pics of my recently built custom bike. It's a 1981 Kawa KZ200. I just want to share the joy I have building this bike and want to thank you for showing cool bikes through your blog & online magazine, which some of them really inspired me to build my own. I'm working as a concept artist/illustrator and started my own studio ( www.oraystudios.com ) and now with my friend Nandang, a mechanic who helped me building this bike, we're gonna start a small custom bike garage called Hajarbroxx motorcycles, and hopefully we'll gonna start making really cool bikes in near future... cheers, Gifny.