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El Solitario is very grateful to her satanic lens majesty Miss Kristina Fender…
2013, Norfolk Arena, Kings Lynn, UK. Second edition of Sideburn´s very famous “moto-mayhem”…
To view the first part click here: https://www.elsolitariomc.com/2012/10/one-week-with-el-solitario-mc-by-kristina-fender/
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR THE FULL PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY: https://www.elsolitariomc.com/motorcycles/yamaha/winning-loser/ The Winning Loser was El Solitario’s first ever bike to be built from scratch, and it was executed to perform in the first edition of the extint Metamorfosis Masiva garage builders contest in Spain. The only two rules to participate in this contest were, to transform a Yamaha SR250 & to spend less than €1.000 in parts. There was no limit on the amount of hours we could spend fabricating and that is what we did. With over 500 hours the Winning Loser is a true example of what constitutes an El Solitario One-Of-a-Kind Motorcycle. Specifications: • Front end lowered 4″ • Metric wrenches used as struts to lower rear • Vintage bicycle handlebars on vintage flanders risers are positioned upside down • Vintage head light • Hand painted Insignias by Artists Raulowsky & Ornamental Conifer • 19′ avon speedmaster front tire • 16′ firestone deluxe rear tire • Custom leather “rock star” seat • 2x 1.5 liter stainless fuel tanks with brass petcocks and caps • 1983 yamaha xt250 kickstart installed in order to simplify the layout • No battery – 68.000 microfarads capacitor for sparks • Chopper Dave cast alloy “cheat death” pegs • Custom
any given morning on the Rias Baixas Speed Demon; “Kill” 1976 Moto Morini 3 y 1/2 El Solitario 14oz Dry Red Sevage Denim Coveralls. Ecru & Indigo finishes available El Solitario signature Racing Leathers El Solitario Leather Riding Pants Always cool and inspiring to have our soul sister fidgeting all over the garage. El Solitario family, while not satiated by our own little revolution on the controversial motorcycle arena, believes we can impulse a positive drift to motored life, creating new gear fit for purpose for today’s road life, a life we know well. Meanwhile, get a kick out of KT’s candid eye at some of El Solitario’s new products & adventures before they are launched.
When Kristina Fender decided to jump in the U*KCUF Mothership, we realized how fortunate guys we were, as her epic photos would be a gift for our future joy. Finally here is a small but powerful preview of what crossed into her seductive lens range during the W&W weekend. Enjoy!
Photographer Kristina Fender is a dreamer. Her passion for sidecars began just one year ago. “It was love at first sight“, she admits, “I went to the Jarama Classic Moto event last year and I had never seen a machine like those before. But when I saw them on the track, the copilot dancing on the sidecar platform, I just knew someday I would be there!“. There she met Leandro and Rosa, both sidecar racers, who made possible her baptism as copilot one year later in the same place, the Jarama. “Leandro called me one month before the event to know if I would dare to race as copilot in the Classic Moto 2011 and without even thinking I said YES! I had been hoping for this opportunity the whole year so I decided to go for it. I had never tried it before but in my mind I had to find out if that love at first sight was true love or just a false alarm…“. And Kris´ first experience with sidecars would be a memorable one. She joined Mani, a sidecar pilot whom she met 5 minutes before the beginning of the first round. “I didn´t even know
“Siempre me ha fascinado la relacion que tiene el hombre, como genero, y la maquina, y esa pasion y dedicacion que le proyecta como si de una extension de su propia alma se tratase. Bonneville te ofrece la opcion de ver esta sensacion en su pura esencia, cada maquina te revela parte de la personalidad de su creador, y el mero hecho de estar ya alli te dice que no solo va a enseñartela, sino que pretende demostrarte que es la mejor, la mas rapida, la mas resistente.Tanto los motores como las carrocerias son autenticas obras de arte, y al verlas ahi paradas o en pista no tienes mas remedio que pensar en todos los dias de trabajo que les ha llevado el llegar hasta aqui.Supongo que fotografiando pretendo llegar al fondo de esta cuestion, pero lo unico que consigo captar es que entre el hombre y la maquina hay amor, un amor parecido al que hay entre un hombre y una mujer.” KRISTINA FIND MORE HERE!
The human body needs certain ergonomics to tackle the task of riding off-road in extreme conditions. It is hard and you need to be fit and concentrated, otherwise you won’t survive. Specially when years start adding up! The other key factors to keep in mind are risk management, weight and reliability.
Ride, work, ride, repeat. It’s a scientifically proven system that unleashes some unexpected benefits of motorcycling. In a recent study scientists found that people scored higher on tests of memory, reasoning, and planning after 30 minutes of riding a bike than they did before they rode.
El Solitario is very grateful to her satanic lens majesty Miss Kristina Fender…
2013, Norfolk Arena, Kings Lynn, UK. Second edition of Sideburn´s very famous “moto-mayhem”…
To view the first part click here: https://www.elsolitariomc.com/2012/10/one-week-with-el-solitario-mc-by-kristina-fender/
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR THE FULL PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY: https://www.elsolitariomc.com/motorcycles/yamaha/winning-loser/ The Winning Loser was El Solitario’s first ever bike to be built from scratch, and it was executed to perform in the first edition of the extint Metamorfosis Masiva garage builders contest in Spain. The only two rules to participate in this contest were, to transform a Yamaha SR250 & to spend less than €1.000 in parts. There was no limit on the amount of hours we could spend fabricating and that is what we did. With over 500 hours the Winning Loser is a true example of what constitutes an El Solitario One-Of-a-Kind Motorcycle. Specifications: • Front end lowered 4″ • Metric wrenches used as struts to lower rear • Vintage bicycle handlebars on vintage flanders risers are positioned upside down • Vintage head light • Hand painted Insignias by Artists Raulowsky & Ornamental Conifer • 19′ avon speedmaster front tire • 16′ firestone deluxe rear tire • Custom leather “rock star” seat • 2x 1.5 liter stainless fuel tanks with brass petcocks and caps • 1983 yamaha xt250 kickstart installed in order to simplify the layout • No battery – 68.000 microfarads capacitor for sparks • Chopper Dave cast alloy “cheat death” pegs • Custom 50-tooth rear sprocket and new regina chain • Vintage smith tachometer on custom aluminum bracket • Rear light from an old bultaco caged inside the cowl • Rearset foot controls
any given morning on the Rias Baixas Speed Demon; “Kill” 1976 Moto Morini 3 y 1/2 El Solitario 14oz Dry Red Sevage Denim Coveralls. Ecru & Indigo finishes available El Solitario signature Racing Leathers El Solitario Leather Riding Pants Always cool and inspiring to have our soul sister fidgeting all over the garage. El Solitario family, while not satiated by our own little revolution on the controversial motorcycle arena, believes we can impulse a positive drift to motored life, creating new gear fit for purpose for today’s road life, a life we know well. Meanwhile, get a kick out of KT’s candid eye at some of El Solitario’s new products & adventures before they are launched.
When Kristina Fender decided to jump in the U*KCUF Mothership, we realized how fortunate guys we were, as her epic photos would be a gift for our future joy. Finally here is a small but powerful preview of what crossed into her seductive lens range during the W&W weekend. Enjoy!
Photographer Kristina Fender is a dreamer. Her passion for sidecars began just one year ago. “It was love at first sight“, she admits, “I went to the Jarama Classic Moto event last year and I had never seen a machine like those before. But when I saw them on the track, the copilot dancing on the sidecar platform, I just knew someday I would be there!“. There she met Leandro and Rosa, both sidecar racers, who made possible her baptism as copilot one year later in the same place, the Jarama. “Leandro called me one month before the event to know if I would dare to race as copilot in the Classic Moto 2011 and without even thinking I said YES! I had been hoping for this opportunity the whole year so I decided to go for it. I had never tried it before but in my mind I had to find out if that love at first sight was true love or just a false alarm…“. And Kris´ first experience with sidecars would be a memorable one. She joined Mani, a sidecar pilot whom she met 5 minutes before the beginning of the first round. “I didn´t even know him in person. All the sidecars were lined up at the starting line and Mani finally arrived; the nerves came all at once…Rosa quickly explained to me what I had to do, I grabbed the front bar of the sidecar and off we went! Oh my god, what am I doing here!!“, she remembers, “and before I knew we were tackling the first right turn, then right again, then left….the speed threw me out of the sidecar and the centrifugal force was brutal! On the last turn I couldn´t even feel my hands and almost didn´t have any strength to hold on to the bar…and finally … the finish line!!“. There she discovered it was really true love! After a turbulent first week-end, the next step on the way was the Pau-Arnos circuit (France) this past June. This circuit is beautiful, quite small and set in the heart of a green valley, but all that glitters is not gold. It has plenty of grandient change with a difference in height of 55 meters between the highest and lowest points. “I went to Pau to replace a copilot that would arrive next day and to meet the pilot that will take me to Coyotes in August“. But that was not all…She also met Christian, a french pilot…and his F2 sidecar!. “He offered me to be his copilot for a series and of course I accepted. After the first two laps in that roller coaster circuit he looked at me to check if I was ok, by signs I asserted…and suddenly I felt a mix of inertia, acceleration and speed and thought I was going to fly away on the next turn along with the croissant I had eaten for breakfast!” she exclaims laughing. “Next day it was time to ride with
“Siempre me ha fascinado la relacion que tiene el hombre, como genero, y la maquina, y esa pasion y dedicacion que le proyecta como si de una extension de su propia alma se tratase. Bonneville te ofrece la opcion de ver esta sensacion en su pura esencia, cada maquina te revela parte de la personalidad de su creador, y el mero hecho de estar ya alli te dice que no solo va a enseñartela, sino que pretende demostrarte que es la mejor, la mas rapida, la mas resistente.Tanto los motores como las carrocerias son autenticas obras de arte, y al verlas ahi paradas o en pista no tienes mas remedio que pensar en todos los dias de trabajo que les ha llevado el llegar hasta aqui.Supongo que fotografiando pretendo llegar al fondo de esta cuestion, pero lo unico que consigo captar es que entre el hombre y la maquina hay amor, un amor parecido al que hay entre un hombre y una mujer.” KRISTINA FIND MORE HERE!
The human body needs certain ergonomics to tackle the task of riding off-road in extreme conditions. It is hard and you need to be fit and concentrated, otherwise you won’t survive. Specially when years start adding up! The other key factors to keep in mind are risk management, weight and reliability.
Ride, work, ride, repeat. It’s a scientifically proven system that unleashes some unexpected benefits of motorcycling. In a recent study scientists found that people scored higher on tests of memory, reasoning, and planning after 30 minutes of riding a bike than they did before they rode.