Vodka, Bears and metal

[alleyoop]

Hello everybody!
My name is Yaro, I'm from Russia. I'm running a motorcycle workshop here in Moscow, and my passion is building custom bikes. Ran over this forum while looking for some metalshaping info, and I belive that it can help me develop my skills.

[weldtoride]

Yaro, welcome to the forum from Illinois, USA.

I agree, there is loads of great info here, I have learned so much.

What style(s) of motorcycle are you building? What's your favorite style?

[alleyoop]

Weldtoride, we are building mostly caferacers, scramblers and rarely bobbers. Due to lack of customizing "infrastructure" here we have to do almost everything ourselves, from tube bending, welding and metalshaping, to painting, and dyno tuning.
Those motorsycles that we were building didn't really require high-end metalshaping skills. But now we have two upcoming projects, a 05' yamaha mt-01 and 08' kawasaki gtr 1400 (a retarded ford crashed into my brother while he was rollin in a traffic jam, and we v got an almost totalled motorcycle with running engine and a repairable frame for free, so why not, thats why such a strange choice) and theese two projects will include complicated aluminium and carbon fiber fairings, which, to be honest, we can't form now with our level (especially aluminium). But we will try, learn and develop our skills, and hopefully succeed

[Peter Tommasini]

Hi Yaro welcome to the forum
Peter

[Jere]

Hello Yaro and welcome.

Jere