ST1100 rebuild in Slovakia

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A friend of mine made contact with someone in Slovakia who had a body trim panel he was after. It turns out that the seller has also rescued and revived a crashed ST1100. Magnificent job, including one-off custom carbon fiber bodywork. A very handsome result, I'm sure you'll agree. I've encouraged him to join the site- we'll see whether he does.

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Wow!
Looks like someone wanted a Sabre with the engine mounted correctly.
I too was thinking it looks like a Sabre.

I wish he'd been available last fall when I wiped out my 1300... but then @sirbike wouldn't have had his chance at it. So in the end I'm content with the way things have worked out.
 
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Here's the back story on this bike, from the man himself:

That ST1100 has very "complicated" history. One man buy it in 90´ and bring in small village near Bratislava. Before he got license plate he came to pub to little show off what he bought. Bike comes from Switzerland (less horse power ,lower max.rev and gas re-circulation). To better understand... in that time shortly after velvet revolution there were only few motorbikes and most of them two stroke Jawa.

My friend ask to try it and in first curve he saw car, made a panic and turn that very heavy bike to ditch an broke - cracks complete whole body. see firs pict..
I bought it from him and started my very long project. Bike was in some different rebuilds, and I suppose that one is the best. I try to made big large travel body before ...but after one year of hard work I saw on that "strange"project and intermediately recognize it is not beauty and cut hole fiberglass body in half hour... :) see the attachment...

First was light one seat body, and after ten years I rebuilt it again , but for two person...

I still have it and I try to sell it, because I have two another motorbike. I am asking very low price, but still there is no interest. You know, Covid crisis is there and people don´t know how all this circus finished ...

I hope You understand all, I am not native a try to learn English for long years..but still I need more speak and more listen
Looking at the various configurations it's been through I like the one-up configuration just as much as the two-up.


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Nice work. This reminds me of the Tracy body kit for the 70's era CB750
 

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Nice work. This reminds me of the Tracy body kit for the 70's era CB750
WOW now there's a flash from the past. I thought about one of those a lot for my 7.5 but then money was much more of a concern. And like making a chopper out of them, it did make the engine look a little too wide.
 
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Here's the back story on this bike, from the man himself:



Looking at the various configurations it's been through I like the one-up configuration just as much as the two-up.


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This is what I used to do at works for many years. Nowadays every jobs like this is done on 3D printer and my life at work is a lots easier :rofl1:
 

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A friend of mine made contact with someone in Slovakia who had a body trim panel he was after. It turns out that the seller has also rescued and revived a crashed ST1100. Magnificent job, including one-off custom carbon fiber bodywork. A very handsome result, I'm sure you'll agree. I've encouraged him to join the site- we'll see whether he does.

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Carbon fiber is not so easy to work with and if you ad the design and the thinking to build something like that, this guy is really talented.
Very interesting, thank you for posting this!
 
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