SHORT FILM: Modern Motorcycle Company

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Victoria, Australia


“Modern Motor Cycle Company is quite straightforward as an idea. It’s a workshop and a shopfront where Christian can sell some parts and some posters while making bikes of his own initiation as well as bikes for customers and friends. Christian trained as a car mechanic, and then as an industrial designer. Having found himself then designing shitty kitchenware for a couple of years in CAD, and feeling a disconnection from the realness of mechanical work, he started MMCC to make bikes and hopefully combine his design and mechanical training. At times he’s felt the frustration of having too much mechanical work and not enough time making bikes from the ground up, but on the whole he’s doing pretty well. I think he is satisfied.”

Excerpt from article ‘much to learn’ from ‘Head full of snakes issue one’.
headfullofsnakes.blogspot.com/

GARAGE: XMas List

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In only a few weeks, I'll be headed back to Chicago, which means project SR250 will be fully underway. My aim for this build is to take on more of the previously outsourced work myself. This means having a better outfitted garage. I moved in only a few months before leaving for Germany, so when I get back I have a list of tools and machinery that I'll be looking to acquire. My main focus will be towards metal manipulation.

And so the list begins...

Mig Welder. Can't do much fabrication without one of these.

Pipe bender, for exhaust and frame bends.

I picked up a compressor, so now I'll need a media blaster.

Mini HVLP spray gun, for some in-house paint work.

A couple different size vice/anvils are a must.

A whole bunch of these guys.

Live in the IL area? Have anything you're willing to part with? Shoot me an e-mail or comment below. I'd love to take things off your hands.