Australian Motorcycle News — January 30, 2018

1. Customiser’s porn:
   an original Ceriani
   4LS 230mm
   drum brake


2. Motogadget dash
   display in a recessed
   top yoke


3. The single-sided
   swingarm caused
   the most headaches


4. Leads to the
   twin-plugged
   heads becomes
   a styling visual.
   Whodathunkit?

“It’s strange seeing a drum on a

bike like this – but it ain’t no

mortal bit of braking hardware”

Happy returns

Oddly, the highlight of the bike,

the unibody tank and seat,

wasn’t too diffi cult for the guys.

Also made in-house, every bit of

it is perfect – the cut-outs for the

frame, the scallops for the legs

and the way it blends the best

parts of a traditional cafe racer

with details from a hard-angled

KTM superbike catalogue.

The R107R is a great way for

Nozem to return to the market.

“I’m looking forward to 2018,”

Lorenzo says, “I’ve got a few

new projects, a new workshop

coming and a few other things

to look forward to.”

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What a bore
But the open-ended brief must have been an inviting
return. “The customer wanted a monocoque bike,”
Lorenzo says, “and gave us plenty of freedom to do what
we wanted, within the budget”, so the team went out
hunting for a donor bike. A brief search found this 1984
R 80 at a local BMW specialist, already fi tted with a worked
Siebenrock 1070cc big-bore engine.
Work started at the front, with a pair of Honda CBR900RR
forks fi tted to a custom top triple clamp, recessed for a
Motogadget speedo and tacho unit. Curiously, those high-
performance forks were mated to a front drum brake. It’s
strange seeing a drum on a bike like this – but it ain’t no
mortal bit of braking hardware. It’s an original Ceriani 4LS
230mm model that the team tracked down in Belgium. On
a scale of silver to gold, this is pure platinum.

Hardest part

Like all their builds, the frame was

extensively modifi ed, cut, shut and powder-

coated to match. The exhaust system was

also made by the team and runs a scratch-

built 2-1 system that ends in a Laser GP-style

silencer. All typically clinical work by Nozem

• but one part of the process had them
  tearing their hair out.
  “The hardest part of the build was the
  swingarm,” Lorenzo says. “It’s all because of
  the space required to fi t the new rear wheel.
  We had to cut part of the swingarm out
  and fi t a new drive shaft to clear the rim. To
  reinforce it properly and get everything lined
  up was quite a hassle.”