Ridefast January 2022

The winning Bike – the Brooklyn Banger by Supertech Pinetown
and Paz custom and restore shop.
Here’s the story from Steve at Supertech and how he came to
build the Brooklyn Banger:
I have done a lot of Custom builds in collaboration with Mike
Britz at Paz Customs. Between the two of us we have come up
with some great builds over the years.
And now we had the chance to build the R-18 “Brooklyn
Banger”.
I always had the idea of a Salt Pan Racer or that classic old
school Hot Rod – Garage built look – with no overboard colours
and a style or attention to detail that a Racer would notice or
would want.
Keeping the era in mind of the R-18 was designed to replicate
– the choice of colours in those days would also have been
limited – probably Army Green, Desert sand beige or Gun/ battleship
Grey – so hence our perfect choice of an authentic BMW
Colour - BROOKLYN GREY and kept with the classic pin strip
of the First edition in a basic Burgundy colour which went great
with the Grey. We carried the pin stripe to the cylinder heads,
forks and rear mudguard as well.
Next was the ”Rose Gold“ – which we replicated from the New
S1000RR engine covers and rear sub frame – it was the perfect
match to compliment the Brooklyn Grey and burgundy.
For the bars we kept a classic sweep back of a beach bar to
accommodate more riders and not too aggressive stance of a
straight drag race bar – custom mirrors and internal cables to
finish the handlebar set up.
We moved the speedo / dash display unit in to a custom hand
built headlight unit to house the speedo and headlight in one –
as per the period of the BMW ’s of that era. We also moved and
mounted the spot lights to give an aggressive front end look.
The seat was hand shaped from foam and eventually made out
of Carbon Fibre and resin with a hand stitched leather cover
mounted on a one -off also hand-made and welded seat mount
to look like it came out the factory like that with LED taillight.
The rear mudguard was hand-made and cut to the perfect size
after 10 attempts to make the look work and also mounted on a
custom once off mudguard hoop that we meticulously welded to
the original rear swing arm- like it was Factory fitted.
We Blacked out all the chrome parts and engine covers – made
handmade – 3d Printed engine and tank badges that were hand
painted and airbrushed in black and burgundy.
Last and Loudest – we had a hand made one off set of full
stainless exhaust pipes made – to replicate the era of the welds
and joins and not just a bent pipe and kept the classic and iconic
Fishtail silencer – classic but with a touch of garage racer – and
yes the sound is great!!
This bike is a vision and passion of a few great ideas and minds
all put into one bike which looks awesome and just show cases
the many options available to customers to build a once off bike
with their own ideas in mind.
Make life a ride….
www.paz.co.za
www.supertech.co.za