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Offline MRieck

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Best (or very good) gauge restorer is where?
« on: April 11, 2017, 01:43:03 PM »
I remember seeing a thread but the search function is pretty much useless. Thanks!
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Re: Best (or very good) gauge restorer is where?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2017, 01:50:20 PM »
Marcel -- sells kits and you can send your gauges to him for work  www.cb750faces.com

For stock and non-stock (including Motogadget) customization and restoration (including Smiths and VDO Porsche gauges)
Buz Ras at Seattle Speedometer  http://seattlespeedometer.com/
Buz is not cheap. He does high end work for Walt Siegl Motorcycles and other builders.
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Re: Best (or very good) gauge restorer is where?
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2017, 02:16:58 PM »
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on April 11, 2017, 01:50:20 PM
Marcel -- sells kits and you can send your gauges to him for work  www.cb750faces.com

For stock and non-stock (including Motogadget) customization and restoration (including Smiths and VDO Porsche gauges)
Buz Ras at Seattle Speedometer  http://seattlespeedometer.com/
Buz is not cheap. He does high end work for Walt Siegl Motorcycles and other builders.
Thanks brother!
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Re: Best (or very good) gauge restorer is where?
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2017, 03:38:58 PM »
There's this place I saw on Instagram...yes, I know. http://seattlespeedometer.com/

But Maxwell Hazan uses/has used him for some of his $100k+ bikes.
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Re: Best (or very good) gauge restorer is where?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2017, 04:22:21 PM »
Quote from: DaveBarbier on April 11, 2017, 03:38:58 PM
There's this place I saw on Instagram...yes, I know. http://seattlespeedometer.com/

But Maxwell Hazan uses/has used him for some of his $100k+ bikes.

Buz is an artist when it comes to gauge restoration and customization.  He's one of the few people who can mod a motogadget chronoclassic (the gauge is sealed in inert gas).  He makes vintage Porsche gauges look brand new, too.  On top of being an artisan, he's a nice guy.  Very much like JMR.
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1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

Sold/Emeritus
1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold

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Re: Best (or very good) gauge restorer is where?
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2017, 04:25:50 PM »
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on April 11, 2017, 01:50:20 PM
Marcel -- sells kits and you can send your gauges to him for work  www.cb750faces.com
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+100 on Marcel, especially for SC, K0, and K1 gages.

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Re: Best (or very good) gauge restorer is where?
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2017, 05:21:42 PM »
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on April 11, 2017, 04:22:21 PM
Quote from: DaveBarbier on April 11, 2017, 03:38:58 PM
There's this place I saw on Instagram...yes, I know. http://seattlespeedometer.com/

But Maxwell Hazan uses/has used him for some of his $100k+ bikes.

Buz is an artist when it comes to gauge restoration and customization.  He's one of the few people who can mod a motogadget chronoclassic (the gauge is sealed in inert gas).  He makes vintage Porsche gauges look brand new, too.  On top of being an artisan, he's a nice guy.  Very much like JMR.

I saw a few pictures of his work with Motogadget gauges, yeah, he seems legit. That's why I posted :)
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Re: Best (or very good) gauge restorer is where?
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2017, 05:49:20 PM »
Thanks for all the great feedback guys....brothers till the end. ;D
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