By: Arnel B. Santos-Ynigo
For this week we are featuring a Deus Sea Sider inspired Honda C70 (Econo Power) build project by Mr. Andrew Ford Guardo a Freelance Website / Graphic / UI & UX Designer based in Cebu and an emerging Vintage/Retro bike builder from Lahug Cebu. He built this cub for the owner Ms. Sheena Bombarda, who is into Scuba diving, free diving, and snorkeling. He offered to buy the bike from her as it was not running for 6 years already. Andrew told her that he can restore the bike and bring it back to life. She declined to sell it as it was a "family heirloom” but after a few months she contacted him again asking about the best theme to apply to the cub. Andrew showed her the "Deus Sea Sider" cub and Sheena was really excited and enthusiastic about the project.
"I've been into custom bike modification since 2007 but a year earlier than that I was into skeleton custom bike setup which was so mainstream during those time. It was my elder brother Philip who introduced and influenced me on custom bike building, one time he showed me photos of motorcycle expos in Switzerland where a replica of a motorcycle from the movie easy rider movie was exhibited, he loves the Bobber kind of setup and I'm into Vintage Motorcycle Restoration and Cafe Style." Andrew shared during our interview
Going into the bike it was not running when Andrew started working on it. It was leaking oil, rusted and majority of the parts showed a great level of oxidation. During the strip down Andrew noticed that the cub was a camshaft version with no side bearing. He knew that its a bit noisy and it wont last long. So he always followed his mantra to always go for the "long term" approach so he opted to replace it with a compatible head which he got from Ricardo "Titing" of TH Custom Build Cycles.
The Surfboard rack is made of rattan wood. "I haven't seen anyone use this material for vintage/retro build projects I'm sure the majority uses a GI Tube then have it padded with rubber though it doesn't coincide in my “long term” approach idea but it's something “new and unique” with a “traditional touch” Andrew shared during the interview. The Front cargo rack is made of stainless steel tube and palo-china wood, the headlight is from a vintage bicycle headlight which was custom modified with modern materials some other accessories being used are aftermarket parts which were bought online. Some parts are hand built like the handlebar holder which is from an 5mm aluminum plate from a junk shop and which was cut manually by a guitar string (which is mind blowing). The signal light and headlight holders are fabricated from discarded metal flat bars from the junk shop as well.
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