Award Winning Motorcycles
I am very proud of the bikes I have been involved with. Some started off as bits and pieces, others we new and became unique, while others still just needed some finishing touches.
My bikes have appeared in...
My bikes have been in three shows/events, including the Barrington Concours d'Elegance and they have won their class 100 percent of the time.
See them here.
What follows are past and present projects. Please be in touch if you'd like to be a part of a project or have your bike join the fold.
My bikes have appeared in...
- Ultimate Motorcycling
- Hot Bike
- BMW Vintage Owners Club
My bikes have been in three shows/events, including the Barrington Concours d'Elegance and they have won their class 100 percent of the time.
See them here.
What follows are past and present projects. Please be in touch if you'd like to be a part of a project or have your bike join the fold.
1962 BMW R69S
1962 BMW R69S
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This bike was the zenith of my collecting experience. Over the last 25 years I have assembled a collection of world class motorcycles; seldom do you have the chance to acquire a bike of this quality, history and provenance. This is the first year of what was to be known as BMW’s “Rolls Royce” of motorcycles, the boxer twin 600cc machine. Famous for its Earles-Fork front end and horizontally opposed Boxer Engine these were the smoothest and most dependable of all European motorcycles. Amazingly, this is a matched number bike with only just over 35,000 miles from leaving the factory and just over 600 miles since its restoration. This motorcycle was restored from a good running, low mileage original. The bike came from an older man who had owned it since 1963 and was well maintained. The frame and fork were powder coated and all sheet metal was professionally done in black single stage urethane. Pinstripes are hand brushed. All seals, rubber parts, tires, bushings and bearings were replaced. Some chrome re-plated, polished all aluminum parts, re-laced and polished the rims which are original and in excellent condition, as is the proper Denfeld leather, dual seat. Rare “S” adjustable steering damper. Re-built carburetors, re-wired all the electricals, and replaced many parts. Speedometer has not been touched. Mufflers are period correct accessories. No detail missed, right down to the frame mounted air pump. Brakes, grips, pegs are all new. Pistons are new first oversize, valves reground 600 miles ago. It runs quiet and pulls strong and thus no reason to disassemble a good running engine. Bike usually starts first kick and runs like a Swiss watch, shifts, stops and handles beautifully. It was built in 1961 so does not have the R69S fender tag which is period correct. Everything works as original, correct, and no disappointments. Bike was a part of a large, private collection of an avid BMW connoisseur for approximately 7 years where it was put on display and well pampered in a climate controlled "museum." Was cleaned and detailed regularly. It has not even been wet for washing for the last 15 to 20 years. This bike won both the Paragon Chicago Motorcycle Show and the Barrington Concours (the “Pebble Beach of the Midwest"). Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners Member #7839 |
Ducati
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Origin Story
I love bikes. In fact, I’m generally attracted to and frequently intrigued by machines of all sorts. Such an admission is likely shared by you if you are reading this. Also likely common is the long enduring nature of such interests—stemming from childhood for many of us. I grew up tinkering, taking things apart, drawing, fabricating all sorts of things and building lots of models.
What may be a bit different for me is that as an 11 year old boy almost every model I built was while I was in a hospital. I wasn’t sick but my grandmother was—very much so. She and my mother had raised me until that point. (My folks had divorced before my first birthday and my father went back to his agrarian roots on a farm a thousand miles away.) Since my mom had to work full time I grew up becoming close with my grandmother. My mom could not afford child care. So every day after school I was in my grandmother’s hospital room. This was quite unusual for this era as when children were generally forbidden from going up to inpatient rooms. But, considering the circumstances and my general quietness, an exception was made, and I became somewhat of a fixture until my mom would come and pick me up every evening once she got off work. After school each school day I would arrive and tell my grandmother all about my day. She would then rest and I would finish my homework. Then, I would start to work on my “current build.” I became very proficient with an Exacto knife, Testors glue, tiny paint bottles and thin brushes. There was never a rush to finish. A model never came home until it was finished. I got to know Revell’s merchandise by heart. So, while I built, I learned how things went together and by abstraction how they would work if made of steel and rubber rather than plastic and glue. In fact, I would explain with pride (and imagined expertise) to my grandmother, and the doctors and nurses, what it was I was building, why certain points were pretty tricky to get just right, and finally, once finished, I would unveil it. The kind medical staff would “ooh-and-ahh,” but every time—no matter the quality (or lack thereof) of my build—my grandmother would say it’s “simply beautiful.” Now, fast forward 41 years, all that time in the hospital, must have made an influence on my career as I went on to work in hospital settings, for twenty years—in private practice, as a service chief, as a researcher, and as an associate hospital administrator. I also founded a non-profit organization dedicated to global health matters and I remain full time in clinical research in orthopedics, rehabilitation and sports medicine. Of course in my spare time I have been designing, fixing, restoring, customizing, building or otherwise wrenching on some sort of bike or car. (In fact it has developed into a sideline LLC called STOUTengineering.) |
"Ton-Up Bobber"
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This is our current project "Double Espresso"
The project name is an homage to the signature Ducati twin (or desmo), hence "double" and its reconfiguration as an Italian cafe racer.
We in the final touches of some motor and body modifications and then art.
Here's the list thus far:
We in the final touches of some motor and body modifications and then art.
Here's the list thus far:
- 5 Spoke Marchesini Forged Rear Aluminum Alloy Wheel 17” x 6” $400
- 5 Spoke Marchesini Forged Front Wheel 17” $350
- Slipper clutch system $1200
- Barnett racing clutch plates $120
- All Balls tapered steering bearings $100
- Dual right sided Carbon Fiber Termignoni exhaust system $1500
- Ducati Performance (DP) ECU to match exhaust $600
- Dual 320mm disc/4 piston Brembo caliper front
- Single 245mm disc/2 piston Brembo caliper rear
- Fresh Galfer pads front and rear with less that 3k miles $100
- CRG brake and clutch levers $200
- Zenmoto fender eliminator kit and integrated tail light system $175
- Billet tail plugs $30
- Oberon side view mirror $80
- Vortex Racing clip-ons $145
- Evap/emissions canister removed
- OEM Cowling removed
- Ducati billet reservoir covers $60
- Adjustable S4R suspension linkage $100
- Brand new Continental Conti Motion front tire $100
- Pirelli diablo rear tire $127
- New cam belts $80
- New oil cooler mounts $20
- New chain and steel sprocket set $150
- New ignition and starter relay $60
- New OEM bridge $125
- Gotham Cycles Foot Pegs $250
- Front fork LED Turn Signals $50
- Vapor Digital Dash $185
- Lowbrow Customs Recoil Grips $21
- Rexxer ECU Tuning $439
- Alchemy 3 eye LED headlight with angel eye ring $128
- Yuasa Battery $120
- Relocate Dash and fabricate brackets $550
- Clear and billet Timing Belt Covers $375
- GSG Belly Pan $410
- Paolo Tex Fork Covers $750
