Mushroom eater The story

14 January 2011 -

Amsterdam (FBI HQ)-Going for Gold at the COTY this year?...you better be ready for Bostjan  His story about his Mushroom eater and coming in second at the COTY 2010.
    
#36 Mushroom eater, Bostjan Slovenia, 631 points, 2nd overall COTY 2010

Mushroom eater, The story by Bostjan
 

FBI 2008 first visit,first contact with guy called Florent(his bikes/frames are amongst top 3 in last 3 years of COTY. He is the MAN!!!  from France. KBK 2009 Lausanne, bought a frame called Predikateur from Florent.  1 of 2 ever made as I heard, the other one is in Strassbourg. FF class in my opinion, Basman is a TT, but that is another story

And then it was collecting dust for more then a year… Lots of ideas what to build from it but nothing revolutionary. Everything is already built, if not in bicycle world then in motorcycle or car custom world. So I decided to build something to look like chopper from psychedelic 60’s or 70’s.

I found an old tricycle built for handicap person in backyard of somebody who was selling old Yugoslavian “muscle”bicycle. Tricycle was interesting because of differential and old Shimano 3 speed hub.Bought both and knew it will be a trike.


3 weeks till FBI 2010…off to Jaka’s, together we will be faster I thought and we were, 5 days from dawn till dusk, almost :). Front end from old Yugoslavian “muscle”, handlebar comes from the same, extended forks, lots of modifications on back end to fit the trike thing, custom made seat, ”sissybar” is from my rat hornet, crancks and pedals from old racing KTM, front wheel is cheap BMX, rear wheels you must know where they come from…

Paintjob… sucks! Want to put a lot of patterns and lots of different psychedelic colours, but I saw that there is not enough time. Its just plain V-tape for stripe, mixed green and gold together and on top of that clearcoat with blue flakes,you can see them if you look hard and close enough.

Thank you for all your points, I wish you gave me more of them to beat that ugly electric Basman :)

Big thanks to Florent (T-cycles), Jaka (Katabrank bicycles), Zoki’s paint shop, Milan, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin… And Rastabikes from Moscow for beautiful prize.

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