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SBK FastDates World Superbike model with Imagine Vehicles 2014 LA Calendar Motorcycle show Best of Show winner.
Imagine Vehicles International 1979 Honda CBX1100 Cafe Racer Best of Show Winner
photography by Jim Gianatsis
Taking Best of Show at the 2014 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show in the Calendar Bike Building Championship was a brand new custom bike builder to the motorcycle scene. Calin Senciac's Imagine Vehicles International / ImagineVehicles.com motorsports fabrication shop with an incredible custom billet aluminum designed cafe racer.
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chassis was custom built by Terry Ward and the shop crew, housing a legendary 1979 Honda CBX 1047cc air-cooled in-line 6-cylinder engine.
Image Vehicles now joins other celebrity builders including Jesse James, Russell Mitchell, Jesse Rooke, Roland Sands, and Shinya Kimura among many who first premiered their bikes at the Calendar Show and went on to have their winning bikes featured in the FastDates.com Calendars to assure their place in history among the premier custom bike builders in the world.
The engine is the legendary Honda CBX 6-cylinder 1047cc motor suspended in an original / prototype aluminum frame, and employing a Ducati 1199 Panigale single sided rear swingarm and hub with Brembo brake, Ohlins TTX rear shock. The front headlight body and instrument brackets are also custom billets, as are the foot controls. hand controls on Rizoma.
Wheels are beautiful super light weight Dymag Carbon Fibre with Michelin Pilot race tires.
The front suspension is Kayaba front forks with Tokio 6-piston brakes and wave rotors. - Jim Gianatsis |

Above from left: TJ Darymple and Terry wardat work with the intital mock-ip and fabrication of the CBX at their shop.
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2014 LA Calendar Best of Show winner Image Vehicles International with Calendar Kittens Petra and Jitka, singer Katie Cole.
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