One of our readers (Thanks, Aaron!) pointed us in the direction of this bike called Trouble, built by Goldammer Cycle Works. If you recall, last year, Goldammer won the 2004 AMD/Custom Chrome World Championship of custom bike building with an entry called the BTR3, a really nice looking bike built in the image of the old board trackers. Being the defending champions they had to come up with another great bike and it looks like the judges liked it. The results are official, they won again! They took first place in the 2005 AMD/Custom Chrome World Championship.
Trouble is almost the antithesis of some of the overdone and overblown choppers coming out of the famous shops around the country. Trouble has a clean and fluid design that looks so well engineered that adding anything else would make it look cluttered. In fact, looking at the photos, I can't see any chrome which is one of the most refreshing changes along with simple and clean paint, no flames and skulls, just a smooth and clean finish with a subtle pinstripe.
Trouble is also missing the huge rear tire and instead has the old style laced wheels with narrow rubber. No starter motor either, this one's a kicker. And it's also missing a rear cylinder! Trouble is a single with a blower! Not gaudy, not extravagant and in your face but like the rest of the bike, very well executed.
I wish we had more details and I'm sure they'll be coming out very quickly but this bike looks too good not to put it out here. Enjoy. Comments?
Goldammer Cycle Works
Trouble by Goldammer
AMD/Custom Chrome World Championship
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Doug says
November 23, 2005 at 1:35 pmvery cool bikes…I’d like to see the see the blown single cylinder in a cafe/sport chassis.
Willie says
November 23, 2005 at 6:19 pmWow everybody needs to check out their site and see the work they do
Bruce Hauser says
November 30, 2005 at 11:34 amI had a chance to see this baby in Roger Goldammers shop this summer just before he took it to Sturgess, he was pulling an all nighter to get it done for the drive to Sturgess.
My jaw dropped the second I saw it on the stand, then he gave me the full tour of TROUBLE, of how he spent 11 days shaping the headlight cowl and 18 days building the master brake cylinder into the right hand grip, the “invisible” touch sensitive blinker switches and the LED signals/brake light hidden in a thin line under the seat.
Not to mention he has the tires custom made for these bikes and all the fluids (including oil) flow through the frame with cables etc.
Another bike “LOW” is just something else, dark green and flat black , it would give Batman a woody, all tucked in and low, Roger reaches under the bike and the hydraulics lift and extend it silently and all you could hear in the shop were the gasps of delight from my wife and kids (and me!)
This bike reeks of original style!
BTR3 was in the trailer looking forward to the ride to Sturgess, she is a beauty!
And he has a crazy modded motocross bike that I would be absolutely terrified to ride (over 100 bhp if i remember correctly). Roger is a real gentleman and an artist in the truest sense of the word. I feel he deserves this award, as he is going to send motorcycle design into a whole new arena.
His website is… http://www.goldammercycle.com
Great work Roger, and thanks for the tour!
Bruce Hauser
Werner Muenchheimer says
January 11, 2009 at 7:21 amVery nice craftsmenship. An outstanding optical experience. Design as the ultimate goal. A perfect showbike. Completely useless on the road, loud, uncomftable and a waste of money.