If you happen to be in the greater Sydney area and you see this thing on the street, well, I'm not suggesting you snatch it and mail it to me here in the States, but. If you'd like to know more about The Hopper, or anything else about Rising Sun Workshop, check out Silodrome's full interview and mosey on over to RSW's website. I'll be honest with you all, my only complaint about The Hopper is that I can't go down to my friendly neighborhood Honda dealer and buy one off the floor right now. I don’t know how many hours went into the build, but it is safe to say between everyone involved, with everything around the build, including filming social media short videos etc we would have hundreds and hundreds of hours in it." It did mean a bunch of 16 hour days, but the end result speaks for itself. We had many delays with the bike, like motorcycle accidents, deadlines shifting, running a workshop, overseas holidays and as the collaboration was always about building an amazing bike on a small budget, the labor or build hours would just be put in whenever possible. We had members help on the build, and that was always going to be the case, but like everyone, life gets in the way, so building a custom bike takes a back seat. The biggest challenge on this build was time. It features a built-in draft beer dispensing system, a rad sparkly vinyl seat made to look like the top of a glass of beer, and killer old-school chopper aesthetics. Basically a company calling card, The Hopper was designed to travel around to bars, bike shows, festivals, and other places where thirsty people gather to spread the gospel of hops. Speaking of weird customs, the guys at Rising Sun Workshop recently teamed up with best mates Young Henrys Brewing to build a rolling beer bar called The Hopper out of a CT110 and, whew, it may be the most perfect bike ever built. He has claimed a few world records in the process as the oldest person to circle the globe, with the smallest side-car ever to make the 41,000 kilometre trip. They can be had for pennies at government surplus auctions in Oz, and they are, in a word, perfect for small bike customization projects. Bob has circumnavigated the world solo on an 18 year old postie bike with a tiny side-car attached. They're damn near bulletproof and, after a thirty-some year run in worldwide production, are common as dirt in places not called America. All credit to him, as it was a hard trip on my vstrom. He bought an ex postal service’s cub 110 postie bike for cheap and continued the trip. For those of you who aren't familiar, the CT110 is a pocket-sized, small-displacement dual sport that rocks a 105cc air-cooled single mated to a semi-auto four-speed trans with a centrifugal clutch. His Husqvarna trail bike had shit itself on the way to Cape York. ⠀ Sydney to London on a Wing and a PrayerĪbout a million years ago, the Australian Post bought tons of tiny, mighty, Honda CT110s, modified them for postal duties, and the legendary Postie Bike was born.
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