motorbike rentals » ISTANBUL motorcycle hire, rent a bike Great communications and service. All emails answered promptly, and more importantly, all services provided faultlessly. Really pleased with ease of rental and the bike I used.for 3 weeks. Could not have been better!Photos for Moto Super Store Is this your business? Claim your business page and access your free Yelp for Business Owners account. Immediately update business information Respond to reviews and customer messages See the customer leads your business page generates Monitor how many people view your business pageBy using this site you agree to the use of cookies. Cem and Çağrı were wonderful hosts. The bike tour focussed on the Sirkeci station area and Golden Horn inlet, and included great stories... Cem was raised locally so knew everything. I highly recommend this tour. Istanbul is one of the most interesting cities in the world. At 60 I'm not ready to give up activities like biking.

My wife and I decided that despite Istanbul not getting the highest ratings for bikeability we would trust a guide to navigate safely and provide us an upclose overview of the city for subsequent days of more indepth experiences. It turned out fantastic! Our guide Fatih was terrific -... I love to take a bike tour the first day in a new city. We took a private tour and it was a great way to start our vacation. Even a pick up from our hotel. Bikes are in great shape. Never biked in a dangerous location. Never felt in harms way. A great way to see the... Chose this tour as asian side wasnt included in my coming itinerary. My guide was excellent and was a pleasant ride mainly on good bike paths plus two different ferry trips You get to cycle right around the Golden Horn and learn a bit about the fascinating history of a part of Istanbul. It was a lot of fun. Cem was incredibly knowledgeable and a great leader, I felt very safe cycling around with him. The tour was filled with information and stories and facts about all these really beautiful buildings....

It was nice to try riding bike in Istanbul.. It was so easy to visit many beautiful please in short time..honda motorcycle dealer in flint michigan And I recommend you to try that with (Istanbul on bike) the owner is really kind and easy to contact with..used bikes for sale in dar es salaam Even the price is good.. used motorcycle parts craigslist albuquerque Our guide Çağrı was fantastic! 1000cc bike for sale in saWe loved the Golden Horn tour that took us through neighborhoods off the beaten path. motorcycle shops in statesboro ga

Great way to see part of the "real" Istanbul-- the bike up the hill to the old city walls was demanding but so worth it. motorcycle dyno machine for sale south africaÇağrı was so accommodating and encouraged us to go at our own pace. motorcycle shops near stevenage My girlfriend and I went on a great tour with Istanbul on Bike. We would highly recommend checking them out. The golden horn tour was a great route, with lots to see. Bike tour in Istanbul is a great option to discover off the beaten paths of the city in a half day tour (takes about 4 hours). Besides seeing the highlights of Istanbul you will also have an occassion to pedal in the back streets of the city and you will be able to learn more about daily life style. Istanbul is by no means cycle friendly, we didn;t see many bikes anywhere around Sultanahmet or Galata.

The tram lines, busy bus traffic and numerous steep hills do not make it easy. However Istanbul on Bike are aware of this and seemed to have created a number of rides that make clever use of terrain and are an enjoyable cycling...While Turkey’s manufacturers are famous for many commodities, custom-made vehicles are not among them...yet. The country relies heavily on imports and locally built models of international manufacturers like Yamaha and Honda, among others. Bunker Custom Motorcycles is a young company that might just change that. The small Istanbul-based workshop has been receiving international recognition and nothing but praise for their most recent refurbishing and customizing projects, among them a mesmerizingly elegant Yamaha SR500. We visited the two founders Mert (29, art director and visual communications specialist) and Can Uzer (31, engineer and video producer) in their Seyrantepe workshop. Located inside a spacious warehouse, the building also harbors their video production company, Bandit.

When did you build your first motorbike? Can: My ‘63 model Triumph 2009, refurbished and re- assembled in our living room. We live on the ground floor (laughs). The second one was an ‘83 model BMW for Mert, which we did in the warehouse that I rented for my shoe distribution business back then. Since 2009 we finished a total of 11 motorbikes, and we have another four projects currently in the making. Do you have a favorite model or brand? Can: Definitely Triumph, I have two of them. Mert: I am trying to find a Kawasaki Z1000, it is like a Delorean for me. There are plenty of them in Germany, in mint condition even, but we don’t seem to have any in Turkey. Can you actually build an entire motorbike from scratch? C: We could, but in Turkey it is simply too much effort to get it certified by the authorities afterwards, so we focus on customizing and refurbishing. How long does it take to finish a customizing project? C: Depends on how much the customer wants done.

We always try to keep it simple, not using expensive parts, and doing as much as possible with our own hands. Usually we build three bikes simultaneously in three to four months. We’d much rather focus on one bike at a time though, to make it better in terms of design. Whenever things get hectic, you start copying yourself. We are pretty picky about our customers actually, we can’t build for everyone. If we start a new project, we need to do it our way and we need to feel free about it, there needs to be a connection between us and the customers. We actually prefer not to call them customers. Ideally they become friends and we ride with them. What is the oldest bike you have refurbished so far? C: A ‘54 model Triumph, a real classic for a friend of ours, tattoo artist Denizhan Özkar. He didn’t want extensive changes, just a restoration, so we helped him. Is it difficult to source motorbikes and spare parts for your projects? C: When I bought my first bike, I worked as a çırak (apprentice) with an old mechanic for three months, to learn how to disassemble bikes and put them back together again.

He mostly works with old motorbikes and people call him Norton Ali, because he is specialized in English motorcycles. I am also in touch with other people like him from all over Anatolia, bike builders and repairers. They like me somehow, so they always call me whenever they discover an old bike for sale. Sometimes you also find old bikes online. Once I bought a bike from Adana, flew there by plane, disassembled it in four hours, gave the parts to a shipping company and took the next plane back. The gas tanks you see here are mostly designed by us and welded from scratch. While I do the painting, Mert takes care of the metal hammering. We also refurbish engines ourselves, almost nothing is done outside our workshop. M: Some steps require heavy machinery though; we have to outsource them to other workshops. We are very passionate about handmade things and we don’t like expensive components. You can find an old carburetor for 200 dollars, or you buy a new one for 1,000 dollars. Finding the old one and refurbishing it has more value for us.

Did you have a background in this profession or did you just experiment to acquire all the skills necessary to build a motorbike? M: It seems hard, right? Given that we don’t have that DIY garage culture in Turkey. In America everybody living in the suburbs has some kind of workshop to play around and experience with metal or woodwork. We basically had to build our own playground to get started with metalwork, customizing our motorbike, the whole designing and redesigning process. We needed a space to do all those things. C: We wanted to use those tools and play with them. We don’t like the consumer culture we are living in, where you buy new items instead of fixing the old ones. That is why we bought these old bikes. Whenever they stop working or they need some fixing we can actually do something to fix it. A new bike is much more complex. We picked up most of our skills from Youtube videos by the way, and by trial and error. We are completely self-taught. How would you describe your aesthetics beyond ‘preserving old things’?

M: We love found objects. C: We like rusty old stuff. M: Bikes are designed around primitive functions, commuting for example. Some bikes were only designed around that. When a customer comes to us and tells us they want to ride the bike in the city, and they’d like to carry a bag around on it without hassle, we approach the project with our own aesthetics while also adding functionality to our design. Do you have your own motorbike community in Istanbul? C: We travel in small groups, but we don’t do that to be recognized as a group. We prefer going to forests and remote areas, not to pubs. C: Our bikes are vehicles to escape Istanbul. In Istanbul we mostly go around by bike at night, after we finish work here, which is usually pretty late. We like the seaside between the bridges for example and the Black Sea coastal areas. Bunker Custom Motorcycles seems deeply rooted in your personal lifestyle. Do you consider it a business, or does it transcend the mere purpose of generating income?

C: We first did our own bikes, then we made bikes for our friends, and it became a kind of community. Eventually it occurred to us that we could be doing this as a business, building and refurbishing motorbikes. Unfortunately, craftsmanship generates very low revenue in Turkey. People don’t hold this kind of labor in high regard, and so they value it less than other work. We want this part of the business to stay like a hobby. If you have to finish 20 bikes a year you need more people. Hiring mechanics is difficult because most of them just want to finish the job, and then go on doing more of that. We prefer taking our time to figure out how to do an even better job. At the bottom line, we refurbish old bikes and we build new bikes, and by doing that we slowly build a community and a brand. Bunker Custom Motorcycles will not stay just a bike workshop forever. We are already working on a sub brand for custom-made leather products and bike parts, all designed and produced by us.