918CFWooden Racer is a motorbike inspired to the glorious cafè racers, modified bikes for speed and good handling rather than for comfort. Rockers bought standard factory-made motorcycles and stripped them down, tuning them up and modifying them to appear like racing bikes. Their bikes were not merely transport, but were used as an object of intimidation and masculinity.
918CFWooden Racer is a motorbike with unique elements that let it to be recognised immediately. It’s design is clean: a big lamp, a big and masculine tank and a small and short tail. Materials are used to surprise riders: Carbon fiber for the lightweight tail while wood for the tank. It’s unconvenctional to find wood on a motorbike, expecially on a tank. It’s the soul of this project.
