Blog — SR500

Shanghai Customs SR400

Shanghai Customs have high ambition. Matthew, a Kiwi living in China, who discovered a love for motorcycles whilst holidaying in the Philippines has assembled a crew and is fast building a motorcycle empire. Alongside customising small capacity bikes to tackle the bustling city streets of the worlds most populated city, the team are looking to expand their horizons by utilising Chinese industry to build bespoke machines and custom parts for export. This SR400 named 水 - Shui (water) is their vision of that export offering. Between touring Chinese factories attempting to establish proper relationships and product quality for the Shanghai...

Auto Fabrica Type #2

Auto Fabrica, or 'The Perfectionists' as they are commonly referred to here in The Shed, are back with Type 2, another exquisite piece of engineering art, this time built around the SR500. A punchy lump chosen for it's solid, reliable track record and it's willingness to being stripped back to the barest of bones, ready for a ground up re-build. Auto Fabrica's mission was to create something that hadn't been done before, easy to say but harder to do when so many people have used the SR for builds in the past. Of course, the simplest way to make a...

CMBL ZedCat

CMBL, from right down there in pirate country, has had a busy year. In between shaping boards for surfists and co-running a cafe with his missus, John Eldridge has found the time to follow up his first build, The Beach Hopper, with another two. This SR500 is the second and a natural progression in terms of style and skills progression. Prior to this John had only ridden bikes but he felt the Deus-esque surf and motorcycle mix was just as welcome on our shores as it was across the pond or down under, although perhaps slightly less romantic given our...

Michael's SR500 Lambada

Michael Eichler grew up skating, snowboarding and camping in the mountains and hills of south-west Germany, and at the age of 15 he was introduced to the world of two wheels on his first bike, a Hercules Prima 5 with 25cc and a full 25kmh top speed. It was great fun at the time... "A lot has changed since then. Now I’m 30, live in Kentish Town, married to the most wonderful girl, and hardly get a chance to camp or Snowboard. But my passion for two wheels didn’t fade away since I was 15. Quite the opposite in fact....