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BAI MIHAIE - LUPALB, S-AU MAI VAZUT CAZURI nu ar fi primul caz de neglijentza in serviciu nu am vreut sa-i jignesc doar o masura de precautzie oricum, nu se compara cacao meu de blitz de la camera cu blitzul lor

shi acum poze de la intalniri shi expozitzii la care au participat cei de la STEED

discutzia nu are rost pana nu aflam shi punctul ei de vedere taximetristul a spus ca ea nu a acordat cedeaza trecerea au venit politzishtii au masurat, sa ashteptam rezultatele anchetei am facut shi noi nishte poze ca sa nu le dea pierdute politzishtii p-ale lor!!! mai mult nu putem face ba da, sa o vizitam shi sa o incurajam

12. Caminiti's Ultimate Steed What you see here is what I invisioned as the Ultimate Cammy Steed. I started with the first Daytec 250 wide-tire Softail frame. This was one of the first that Phil Day designed for us with a triangulated swing arm, so it would look like a rigid frame. We stretched the chassis a full five inches forward and tossed in a dramatic forty-degree rake. That should handle the requirements of fat, long and low. I e-mailed Cammy on the road with a ton of scanned photos of billet wheel designs and he chose the PM designs that were selected for his ride. With an 18" 250 Avon gripper on the rear and a 21" on the leading edge I almost had a rolling chassis. About a month into the design process I was at the Laughlin River Run and ran across Roger Goldammers' show trailer rig. Rodger lives up in Canada, and when he gets snowed in during the winter his imagination runs loose. His version of "Cabin Fever" is what you see in his design on the triple trees. I had to have on of these for Cammys' rolling masterpiece. Ken ended up with the first production of Rogers' Trees. Goldammer starts out with a solid 125-pound block of billet aluminum. After almost 40 hours of machine time running a CAD/ CAM programmed mould making milling machine, you wind up with the ultimate in engineering design and function. Capped off with special Perse Performance 41mm sculpted lower legs and the bike was beginning to take on a stunning profile. My shop is located in Scottsdale, Arizona and this bike was going to find a home in Houston, Texas. That's about 1200 miles from my base of operation, so I wanted a very reliable drive train. Big is cool, but it's got to start every time. I enlisted the expertise of Nigel Patrick to build the first motors he's done with Dual-Plug heads (two spark plugs per cylinder) along with a compression release to make the 113" Musclebike motor crank over with ease. Ken's bike has the first set of 'round' billet cylinders that came out of Nigel's workshop too. I had them polish the motor to a mirror finish prior to assembly to match the Baker 6 speed Tranny that would deliver all that power to the ground. Tying the motor to the transmission is a Rivera / Primo 3" open belt-drive with an Evolution Industries belt guard to protect the old pant-leg. Keith Terry supplied the 2.0 kw high torque starter. This beast cranks over effortlessly every time. What a relief to find the right combination of components that will deliver the goods every time. Now it was my turn to really go to work. I assembled the rolling chassis and then took digital pictures of the roller. With the photos in hand I could do over-lay tracings of fender and tank designs. After about two weeks of sleepless nights I finally decided on the final design and e-mailed Ken the sketches. With his approval of my drawings, I enlisted Andy Palmer of Exotic Toys in Garden Grove California to bring my Gas tank design to life in sheet metal. Andy and I go way back, he did the body for my Cobra inspired custom Steed in 1995. This time I drew from some of the design cues of the the Cobra bike to make an integral fuel-cell and seat platform with some compound curves that only a master metal-smith could bring to life. Andy did his Aluminum magic while I fabricated the Steel rear fender at my shop in Arizona. When the whole bodywork came to life, I new that we had a winner. It was stunning in its raw unpainted form. Ken wanted a pearl or metallic orange, and I worked with the Lenny at Scottsdale Paint supply. We formulated about 6 different samples of "Cammy Orange" and shipped them off to New York where the Rangers were playing that week and awaited his choice of a custom blended color. In the mean time, we tore the bike back to the basic elements to put the final finish on everything. All the chrome was shipped out to Royal Plating in Tucson, where J.R. does all the shiny stuff for us. We did all the application of the PPG urethane Paint in house at Steeds. I was working on some graphic designs to accent the paint, and once the color was applied to the bodywork and chassis, I decided that this machine didn't need anything to distract form the clean flowing lines. This bike was just going to be "Cammy Orange" and that's all. I wired the entire bike with a wiring harness supplied by Rick and Marlin at Wire Plus. I ran all the wires internally through the frame to hide all of the juice for the trick electronics that we worked into this machine. The indicator lights are LED's that were built flush into the fuel tank, and buried under the clear-coat. The Dakota Digital Tach and Speedo were frenched flush into the tank, even the front self-canceling turn signals are LED's hidden in the front foot-pegs. The rear directional LED lights are also built recessed into the paint on the trailing edge of the rear fender. The LED tag holder and taillight is a Steed proprietary component that's a trademark on many of our bikes.

11. Pudge What you see is exactly what he asked for; a fast, long low fat Steed with no 'devil shit' painted on it. I started out the next day driving back to Scottsdale with a cell phone call to Daytec's Paul Kirk. Daytec was just starting to offer a 250-Softail-style frame at the time, but it had a single horizontal tube swingarm. I personally think that the point of a Softail is to have a frame with the lines of a rigid, but with the comfort of suspension. So I wasn't thrilled with the swingarm that they offered. With a little coaxing and help from Phil Day, this is one of the first frames that they built with a 250 triangulated swing arm. They now build these chassis' for us with our trademark logo gusset and proprietary design details for our regular production bikes. I convinced Ken to have us build him his second Steed bike at the same time. I didn't want to build two identical bikes on these new Steed softail chassis. I went in two completely different directions with the design of these Major League machines. Ken wanted curvy and fat, Pudge just wanted 'green,' so I decided to go 'pointy and slim' on Pudge's Quarterhorse SE. A couple of weeks into the design process with Ivan; I attended the Laughlin River Run and met these amazing Canadian guys from Goldammer cycles. They have developed a radical streamlined set of triple trees from a single 125-pound block of billet aluminum. I liked what they had but I wanted to so something even more spectacular on this bike for the golden gloved Rodriguez machine. I worked with Roger Goldammer after the show and we designed this Steed/Goldammer "X" tree that is now a proprietary Steed product. They are not cheap by any means, but this is absolutely the most beautiful front end to ever grace a bike that has come out of our facility. This is the first article tree produced on Pudge's Steed and we have the CNC program ready to make more per order. I hand bent and fabricated the 'X' bars and the mirrors even have backlighted LED gauges. There's a Tach and voltmeter in the right mirror and the red LED's in the left mirror. It also has the Speedo and Odometer functions as well. This is an ultra high-tech and clean solution to having a full compliment of gauges. I also developed a system of LED's boxed in through the fuel tank that illuminated the turn signal indicators, high-beam lights, oil and even a real time digital voltmeter. All these indicator lights are invisible when the bike is parked and illuminate when you fire up this Quarterhorse. This bike has more instruments than your typical HD full bagger bike. You can't see any of them in these shots. Crazy yes, cool yes, inexpensive NO. We're writing the book on this one. Top this off with a Billet 113 c.i. Patrick Racing motor with round cylinders and dual Mikuni carb, the new Samson 'Challenger' series exhaust, a 6-Speed Baker transmission with a 3" open Rivera/Primo belt-drive, PM wheels and you've got a power train combination that will deliver the horses and reliability too. All the bodywork was done in house. I spent a few days hammering, cutting grinding and welding to make the pointed fenders that hug the massive Avon tires. Captn' Mike layered on the chunkiest 'bass-boat' green metallic paint that we could acquire, over a black basecoat. Then I laid out a set of inverted flames and sprayed them in a finer grade of green metallic over a silver base. Ron 'the Legend' pinstriped the whole flaming glitter amalgamation and then we piled on the clear and sanded the whole thing flat before Cappy buffed it to a shimmering gloss. I hid all the wiring, which included self-canceling turn signals in the foot pegs and LED's in the trailing edge of the rear fender. The license bracket is a Steed side mount that also holds the OEM Wilwood 4-piston chromed brake caliper. The front dual disc set up is also our DOT approved Steed/Wilwood system that has a pretty interesting brake hose set up; check it out.