He really gave me the chance to develop my knowledge and skill with the bikes. After a while I started working at Ironwood Custom Motorcycles. Trying but failing college for multiple years I wanted to work. Trying to weld in my neighbor’s garage with his little MIG-welder and using an angle grinder was the first time I worked with metal. The featured CB is my first motorcycle, which I bought when I was 18. I started watching videos of people building bikes and I just had to try that for myself. From there the passion grew bit by bit.Īfter seeing MotoGP in Assen here in the Netherlands in 2015, it really started flowing.
I like to think that’s the foundation of what I do now.
#Bike workshop venice full
Bins full of blocks to create anything my imagination would show me. Playing with sticks and rocks, beer caps, etc. Well, as a kid I always created stuff from anything I found. Please tell us a bit about yourself, your history with motorcycles, and your workshop.I get a lot of conversations about this bike everywhere I go.”īelow, we talk to Chiel for the full details on the build, and share some more shots from his friend and photographer Kolja W. And obviously it’s an eye-catcher, so there are always staring faces and a thumbs up, which is always nice. With the sticky Avon tires I can just tear through corners…. Other highlights include new electrics, LED lighting, a rebuilt engine with 650 cam and Delkevic headers, custom airbox, new fork internals and YSS rear shocks, custom Jowi Paulissen saddle, and much more. Taking inspiration from MotoGP and short circuit racing, he formed set of carbon fiber fenders in-house - his first time delving into that process - along with fabrication of the necessary steel brackets, and upgraded the brakes with a double front disc conversion. “It’s a personal project where I wanted to show myself (and now the world) what I could do with all the skills I’ve learned and being able to work fully from own design.” Now, several more years of experience under his belt, he decided to transform the machine into a bike that would showcase his skills: The bike you see here is a 1978 CB550K, and it was actually Chiel’s first full-size motorcycle, bought when he was 18. Here I got the chance to really develop my metal working skills.” After a year and a half I think, I started working at a steel interior company. “He really gave me the chance to develop my knowledge and skill with the bikes. When he was a little older, he went to work with Arjan van den Boom of Ironwood Custom Motorcycles: Even before that, Chiel had been the kind of kid who was always playing with LEGO bricks and building blocks - a born builder. Perfect for the time.” - Įnter our new friend Chiel Nipius of Nius Moto, whose love of two wheels goes back to his 50cc Honda Benly, bought when he was 15. “Like it’s larger sibling, the 550 proved a reliable, comfortable, easy-to-maintain, every-day motorcycle. The Honda CB550 remains one of the sweetest midsize machines ever produced, a 50-bhp inline four that handled well, ran sewing-machine smooth, and had the gorgeous looks of the heavier CB750.
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