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Cleveland CycleWerks Custom BSA | #motorcycle

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" Scott Colosimo runs Cleveland CycleWerks, a company making cool, affordable custom-style bikes that cost as little as $3195. This bike isn’t on a CCW dealer floor though: it’s Scott’s personal ride, a 1954 BSA M21 that he built himself. Scott wanted a hardtail, cut down to the essential elements that make a bike stop and go. “A modern take on a British classic,” he says. So he bought this bike sight unseen from eBay, assured by the owner that it was a “real rider”. In reality, it was worn out and unsafe.

Scott stripped the bike down and sketched out his vision. Then he went to work to fix the 60 years of bad craftsmanship and chopping that had been inflicted on the frame. Then the mechanicals were overhauled: the gears were dog-eared so the teeth engage easier, the motor was disassembled, inspected, cleaned and re-assembled, and the exhaust was massaged into a better sweep and position... "

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Posted February 9, 2012 by mafiax