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Kamome Sprinter Custom Harley-Davidson

Jason — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:49:36 +0000

Kamome Sprinter Custom Harley-Davidson

built by Charlie Stockwell of Warr’s Harley-Davidson, London

This year iconic Japanese Denim label Evisu teamed up with Europe’s oldest official Harley-Davidson dealership Warr’s of London and famous custom designer Charlie Stockwell to create and hand build a one-off classically-inspired Harley-Davidson.

Synonymous with luxurious craftsmanship and one-off design, The Evisu x Warr’s Harley-Davidson Motorbike, aptly named the Kamome Sprinter, showcases a darkened harmonic combination of past vintage styles with modern functionality and celebrates the creativity and hand-made practices for which both brands are famous.

The Evisu Warr’s Harley-Davidson mission statement outlines that every detail crafted has its purpose and function throughout this whole creative process. Warr’s famous engineering is expressed through pure lines and timeless elegance in this design, whilst historic influences of performance, precision and production from iconic label Evisu, blends the styling of this bike to perfection.
Welding, engraving, bending metal; stitching, riveting denim and embossing and treating leather – Warr’s & Evisu heritage is celebrated throughout the entire motorcycle and the same technical exactness that Charlie Stockwell rules by was taken into account throughout the design and ultimately drove this bike to completion.

Every detail of this bike offers more than meets the eye. Look closely into the hand engraved engine covers and you will see Japanese inspired art. Nishikigoi Koi, scales, crashing waves and dragons are just some of what can be found on first glance of the beautifully and probably painstakingly hand engraved work of a local gunsmith in London. Look closer and you see more of the Evisu influence in symbols and characters used by the denim brand throughout their 20 year existence.

Spec:

Name - Kamome Sprinter

Design – Charlie Stockwell & Evisu

Completion - 8 weeks

Donor vehicle – 2011 H-D Softail Crossbones

Engine – 96ci Twin-Cam B

Trans – H-D 6-Speed

Frame – H-D Softail

Swingarm – H-D Softail

Forks – H-D Springer

Brakes – H-D

Exhaust – Warr’s/Charlie Stockwell - Spud Shooter Exhaust

Air Cleaner – Warr’s Cali’ Air Cleaner

Handlebars – Warr’s Kamome Drop Bars

Saddle – Warr’s Messinger Solo Antique Brown

Tire Front – Firestone Champion 4.00 x 18

Tire Rear – Firestone Champion 5.00 x 16

Front wheel – 18 x 3.5

Rear wheel – 16 x 3.5

Fenders – Warr’s Frisco

Headlamp – CSC

Tail lamp – CSC

Engraving – Warr’s by appointment

Denim Wrap – Charlie Stockwell & Evisu

Plating – London Chroming

Custom Paint – Classic Cycle Works

Website - www.warrs.com

Facebook - www.facebook.com/warrscustoms

Twitter - www.twitter.com/warrscustoms

Credits:

Words – Takayuki Ono

Photography – Marianne Logica

Special thanks to:

Charlie Stockwell
Head of Design & Custom

Warr’s Harley-Davidson

Direct Line: +44 (0) 20 7751 9121

Tel: +44 (0)20 7736 2934
Fax: +44 (0)20 7371 0644
eMail: charlie@warrs.com

The Frisco Bobber Harley-Davidson By Charlie Stockwell & Warr’s

Jason — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:47:13 +0000

This great Bobber once again comes from our friend Charlie Stockwell. Charlie Stockwell has operated out of the King’s Road workshops of Warr’s Harley-Davidson since 1996. Having spent 15 years working, living and breathing everything Harley-Davidson you would expect someone a little older but this guy is at the tender age of 31.

When Charlie was asked by his customer, John Hardcastle, to transform his H-D Crossbones into something unique, Charlie offered him to start a project that crossed styles both from the Far East and 1970′s California.
A mix of raw materials, traditional practices and hand crafted bodywork. Glowing metal flake paintwork. As with all of Charlie and Warr’s custom Harleys he insists on using the original chassis, engine, transmission and electrics. Keeping these components on every bike make each one as reliable and ridable as the original Harley.
After stripping the bike down, the engine cases and every nut and bolt were sent away to be nickel plated (something regularly seen on Warr’s vintage and custom bikes). The transmission covers covered in glossy black powder coat. He junked the original Crossbones bodywork and opted for a 2010 Sportster tank and internal fuel pump. It needed a little modification before it would fit the Softail chassis and due to the decrease in fuel capacity he sourced a Moon Eyes 1lt fuel flask to strap to the swingarm. The fenders were hand rolled by friends of his in Japan. It may seem like a long way to go to have the fenders made but Charlie wanted to not only use some of the influence from his days of travelling around Asia but have the guys he met make something for the bike too. As with many of his bikes, Wild Hog in Italy hand made and stitched all of the leather work. Saddle, side bag and fuel flask retaining straps. Charlie re-laced the original rear wheel hub onto a 16×3.5 rim and used the original Crossbones front wheel then wrapped them in Coker Rubber. Black front tire and twin whitewall for the rear.
All of the brass components, except the gas cap, were machined at the Warr’s workshops. Grips, pegs, spacers and mounts. The handlebars are a pair of Sportster Iron bars with the paint striped back and polished.
The headlamp was mounted low down on the left hand side of forks to keep the front end clean and springs exposed. A small side mount license plate holder was fabricated to also hold the rear light.
The incredible paintwork and pin striping is courtesy of Keith Baker of Classic Cycle Works. Charlie has had Keith paint everyone of his custom Harleys to date and says he wouldn’t use anyone else! “To keep with the theme of the bike we wanted to use a deep ‘Root Beer’ and orange candy over a mix of gold and silver flake”. Quite an iconic colour form the 70′s California scene. Then the details would be in the pin striping and the use of white gold and gold leaf. The end result is quite amazing. The depth of colour and dance like movement in the metalflake is awesome!
The bike was named the Frisco Bobber and rightly so. Branded in gold leaf across the oil tank.

Spec:

Credits
Photos: MLPro
Writer: Emily Scott-Tao (Freelance Automotive)

General
Frisco Bobber
Base model: 2010 Crossbones
Builder: Charlie Stockwell of Warr’s Harley-Davidson
Time: 6 weeks
City: London
Country: England
Web: www.warrs.com

Engine
Harley-Davidson Twin Cam B
96ci
H-D Delphi Fuel Injection
Air Cleaner:, Warr’s Cali’ Chrome & Copper
Exhaust: Modified originals
Trans: H-D 6 Speed

Rolling Chassis & Accessories
Frame: H-D Softail
Rake: Stock
Fork: H-D Springer
Headlight: Warr’s Springer Side Mount 4″
Handlebars: 883 Iron
Risers: Brass
Hand controls: Warr’s
Foot Controls: H-D Softail Forward Controls
Front Wheel: 3.5 x 16
Rear Wheel: 3.5 x 16″
Front Tire: Coker
Rear Tire: Coker
Brakes: H-D
Fuel Tank: Modified Sportster & Moon Eyes Emergency tank
Oil Tank: H-D Softail
Seat: Wild Hog for Warr’s
Saddlebag: Wild Hog for Warr’s
Rear Fender: Yoshi for Warr’s
Front Fender: Yoshi for Warr’s

Paint & Pinstripe: Keith Baker – Classic Cycle Works
Copper & Nickel plating: London Chroming Co.
Design & Build: Charlie Stockwell

For more of Charlie’s work at Warr’s Harley-Davidson please go to www.warrs.com, Warr’s official twitter page: www.twitter.com/warrscustoms and their official facebook page: www.facebook.com/warrscustoms

Unorthodox by Warr’s Charlie Stockwell of Warr’s London

Jason — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:33:23 +0000

London based custom Harley-Davidson^® designer Charlie Stockwell of Warr’s Harley-Davidson, Europe’s oldest Harley dealership, introduces his latest creation. ‘Unorthodox’.

It’s a striking distance from the designs we are used to from Stockwell and Warr’s H-D. Best known for his award winning and trend setting vintage designs, no-one was expecting such a bike to be wheeled out of the Warr’s workshop on the King’s Road in the heart of Chelsea. He dared to break tradition and did exactly that. A breath taking cocktail of chrome and carbon fibre. Neo-vintage styling. No leather or tassels on this Harley.

Nearly everything on ‘Unorthodox’ is hand made by Stockwell himself. The original Harley-Davidson^® Fatboy^® was stripped down leaving just the engine and chassis. The oil tank was removed from beneath the seat and the chassis re-shaped to drop the solid one-of-a-kind carbon fibre solo saddle to an extreme slammed ride height. A new oil tank was fabricated to fit inside the original, tear-drop shaped, Fatboy fuel tank. Stockwell crafted the high-low dual exhaust system which rather cleverly houses the rear lights in the carbon mufflers. To enhance the bikes fierce stance only a pair of MotoGP spec Ohlins front forks will do. It doesn’t stop there, custom made CNC triple trees mount the forks to the frame. Brembo monobloc calipers are fitted to deal with the brute force of the new tuned 113ci Screamin’Eagle H-D Engine which has been treated with glossy black powder coat and the cooling fins Diamond Cut for a show sparkle. Carbon fibre, race style clip-on handlebars are fitted with Performance Machine controls to match the huge wheels wrapped in Metzeler rubber, 3″ open primary drive and foot controls.

For more info please visit our friends at
Warr’s Harley-Davidson

Russell Mitchell’s Exile, The Anti-Chopper Chopper

Jason — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:03:06 +0000

Past History with Russell Mitchell

By Mark Masker

Photography by Courtesy Of Exile Cycles, Howard Kelly, Ernie Lopez, Mark Masker

Not all of the famous builders got started early on. Some were in grade school (or younger) when Street Chopper first hit the stands. Russell Mitchell was one of them. He was born in Frampton on Severn, a small farming village in the west of England. They barely had color TV, let alone imported American chopper magazines back then. When he hit his teens, he was a huge skateboarder but by the time he was 16 he’d made the jump to a motor and two wheels and hasn’t looked back since. “I had a buddy of mine who was big into cars who’d occasionally come across American bike magazines like Street Chopper. I remember seeing crazy things like Arlen’s two-engine Sportster,” he reflected.

There were local custom chop rags too, though. Back Street Heroes was one of the more successful European chopper books, and Russell agreed that Street Chopper and other American biker magazines influenced it. “The whole custom bike scene in England at that time (mid-to-late ’70s) was very fledgling,” Russell told us. At the time, people went as flashy as possible, including him, believe it or not. Don’t believe us? Take a look at his first custom job: a coffin-tanked Lambretta scooter. No, you read it right. His first build was actually a chopperized scooter. “I was part of a small faction called The Scooter Scum and we did everything we could to piss off the straight mod scooter contingency by doing everything we could to make our scooters look like choppers.” Saying he did that with the Lambretta would be an exercise in understatement. In its stock form the scooter’s gas tank sat under the seat; Russell threw that out and swapped in a coffin tank atop the chassis spine. He also hand made solid hex steel forks, heated up in a forge, and twisted in a hair pin. The paint? Not exactly the flat black that’s Exile Cycle’s signature move. Try a warrior carrying off a naked chick on the back of a sabertooth tiger. “I named it Exile and it won all the shows but it was the sort of deal where you had to have chrome everything. We had a shop in Birmingham that was our go-to place. Bitchin’ chrome, but it was horribly expensive.”

Via: Streetchopperweb.com

Thunder Struck Custom Chopper – SOUL SHAKER

Jason — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:24:17 +0000

by Mark Daley

Featured on the cover of V-Twin Magazine (May 2008 issue). A 120 cubic inch Accurate Engineering Outlaw Pan Head, dual SS carbs. Baker 6 speed trans, Thunderstruck belt drive. Thunderstruck/Ego Trip Wheels. All sheet metal & accessories work by Mark Daley. Paint by Mad Gini.

Owners: John and Dee Barker, Grants Pass OR.

Via: ThunderStruckcustombikes

Thunder Struck Custom Choppers – Hammer

Jason — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:49:52 +0000

Built with a 147 cubic inch Engenuity engine, Thunderstruck Ego tripp wheels.

Baker 6 speed transmission, custom sheet metal, Thunderstruck Billet 4 U belt drive.

Via: Thunderstruckcustombikes.com