Renegade Issue 31

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Two wheels in excellent quality and 3D design.
Nevertheless daily business had to be continued
beside the project – the money to blow into the
build-off bike had to come in: He lifted the curtain
a little bit and soon found sponsors for the proj-
ect. NH-Power jumped onto the “crazy” idea im-
mediately and sponsored the complete primary
belt drive system, afterward modified by the team.
Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hyde added the mufflers to the
homemade pipes and – always in for extreme
ideas – Michael Naumann of “Naumann & Co.”
created the Air Ride system for the motorcycle –
both front and rear! VW Hamburg added some
cash into the travel budget and the Abu Dhabi trip
was financially secured. But the bike still had to be
built – and it would be a massive workload loom-
ing ahead. Rather than settling on established
and reliable technology, the team fabricated their
own swingarm and fork which was to inherit the
Nauman Airride. Additional task, the bike’s func-
tions were to be controlled by a touchpanel which
was to be integrated into the tank surface – that
brought another friend into the project to program
the electronic system that everything can be ac-
tivated by tapping the shops logo: Starter, Airride
and all lights were set up, wired and activated,
causing the system to blow up in a huge clowd
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of smoke and the distinctive smell of burned elec-
tronic parts – bummer...
Time was running out quickly, so the “second gen-
eration” electronic control module entertained the
security check in the hand luggage en route to the
Middle East ¬– with nothing else but the faint hope
that it could be set to work as planned in Abu Dha-
bi. No “Plan B”, no back-up, no switches or relais
in the luggage – all or nothing, do or die...
The massive amount of metal work also took its
time: Flo and his team worked day and night, but
the days before the sheduled shipping of the com-
poments, all available hands were activated to see
the welding torches and screwdrivers flying!
His ordered “baking oven” for professional powder
coating did not show up in time, so they also had
to create their very own “powder-o-matic 2000”,
which formerly served for baking break and other
things, to get the job done. Heaven know’s where
he found the time for his girlfriend, but while the
project was going on he also found the time to get
another “job done” – and his business soon has to
serve 3 people of his own family.
Danny Schramm of Schrammwerk knows the drill
– he always is on the receiving end of mayhem,
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