SKULL

Production: Orekhovo Custom Art
Year:2004 Owner:Sergey "SKULL"Orekhovo, Moscow Assembly time: 6 months Engine: ИМЗ, 650сс Exhaust: bypass Orekhovo Custom Art Carburetors: K - 68 Air filters: K&N Ignition: electronic. Transmission: ИМЗ-4-speed. Rear gearbox: ИМЗ (9th pair) Frame: Orekhovo Custom Art, hardtail Steering wheel: ИМЗ Tank: NSU Wing: Orekhovo Custom Art Spotlight: ИМЗ-Ural "Voyage" Brake light: Orekhovo Custom Art Footrests and pedals: Orekhovo Custom Art Grips: Orekhovo Custom Art Saddle: Orekhovo Custom Art Side stand: Orekhovo Custom Art Front fork: ИЖ "Orion" Traverse: broad, Orekhovo Custom Art Front wheel: 21 inch, 160 spokes, Orekhovo Custom Art Rear wheel: 15-inch, 80 spokes, Orekhovo Custom Art Front tires: Michelin Commander 80/90-21 Rear tires: Nokian 205/60-15 Brakes: ИЖ "Orion"

"Skull" is already the third motorcycle Andrei Cherepanov (it, by the way, also has the name of the Skull). " Uralovsky" engine was removed from his first two motorcycles. Because the motor is not annoying or anything.Build a new motorcycle on the basis of this engine took the guys from the Moscow workshop of Custom Art that in the Orekhovo. Under the motto "Manual work better!" let's cut metal cutting machine. Frame - Hardtail, long and thin. Nothing more - so sees the Skull real chopper. As I demanded from him, though some explanations as to why like it silhouette, he answered simply, not according to Freud: "Beautiful"!

Front fork taken from the "ИЖ", made direct to the wheel to sit up, leaning forward, not backward and not directly. To drive on the frame - Hardtail this is important: with her all tussock - fossa feel as though the "catch" them on the spine. Wheel... This unique "trick" orekhovskaya group: as many spokes as they are inserted into the rim does not one Russian customizer. Limited to 160 things in the foreground and 120th in the back. Rear - car tires domestic brand "Taganka": wide and almost square. It to the asphalt clung like teeth. Was graceful tractor: as if he neither side wind, or even what kind of misfortunes are not afraid. It is not shifting, not shakes, goes smoothly along a given course. In favor of minimalism refused from the front wing. In the rain ride unpleasant, but the style requires victims.
In the design of the Skull implemented a passion for «cubism» : lever steering, rear view mirror, lever kick starter, stand, bolts and other protruding parts - all square or hexagonal shape. The tank from NSU (where only Andrew found him?). It is an integral part of all his motorcycle.

Article taken from the magazine "Moto" № 12, 2005.