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Title: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: papa grumpy on April 18, 2007, 11:54:51 PM
Jim Knopf's amazing Eight-Ball is featured as a photo spread and interview in RAPID magazine (an Australian mag specialising in customised sports/race bikes).

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u267/ozpapagrumpy/rapidcovermay07.jpg)
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bubba zanetti on April 19, 2007, 12:26:53 AM
Yeah I got that at lunch. Pretty cool to have a GS in Rapid.  :thumb: :thumb:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: Lukewarm Wilson on April 19, 2007, 12:27:55 AM
cool I'd better grab that, about time they showed something less then 1000cc's :thumb: :cheers:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bubba zanetti on April 19, 2007, 01:37:30 AM
Quote from: Lukewarm Wilson on April 19, 2007, 12:27:55 AM
cool I'd better grab that, about time they showed something less then 1000cc's :thumb: :cheers:

Too true, it's getting that way they should rename it Hirebuses & the occasional R1 or gixxer 1000.
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: Jim Knopf on April 19, 2007, 02:49:26 AM
Servus,

thats GREAT! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

can anyone send me a issue from the mag to me, to Germany? :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

Thanks.

Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bubba zanetti on April 19, 2007, 04:25:20 AM
Not a problem, PM me where to send to.  :thumb:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: gsJack on April 19, 2007, 05:57:54 AM
How about scanning the page/pages covering the Eight-Ball GS and posting here for all to see?
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: dgyver on April 19, 2007, 06:40:40 AM
Sweet! Awesome to see rag to print something good about the GS.  :thumb:

Yeah I would like to see the whole article too.
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: genEricStL on April 19, 2007, 06:51:34 AM
Quote from: Jim Knopf on April 19, 2007, 02:49:26 AM
Servus,

thats GREAT! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

can anyone send me a issue from the mag to me, to Germany? :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

Thanks.



Is that the rear-end on the lower right on the front of the magazine ??? LOL - with that large of a flat expanse you could rent it out for advertising  :thumb:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: Jim Knopf on April 19, 2007, 12:28:24 PM
Quote from: bubba zanetti on April 19, 2007, 04:25:20 AM
Not a problem, PM me where to send to.  :thumb:

servus,

you´ve a PM.

Thanks. :thumb:

Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bubba zanetti on April 19, 2007, 02:03:11 PM
I'll see about scanning it the next day or so at work.

Jim I'll get it in the mail early next week.

genEricStL, the tyre isn't that big it's only a 360
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: GeeP on April 19, 2007, 06:28:14 PM
Nice work Jim   :thumb:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: genEricStL on April 19, 2007, 07:37:00 PM
Quote from: bubba zanetti on April 19, 2007, 02:03:11 PM
genEricStL, the tyre isn't that big it's only a 360

Ahhh ... ok .

Mine's a 130 ... a little over 1/3rd the size of his  :o It's a big freaking tire lol
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: dgyver on April 19, 2007, 08:10:35 PM
Here is a pic from a previous thread....

(http://500xtrem.50.funpic.de/4images/show.php?image_id=625)
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: FearedGS500 on April 19, 2007, 09:31:37 PM
that bike is just plan sick
:o
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: Jim Knopf on April 20, 2007, 03:01:39 AM
servus,

another pic from the rear wheel:

(http://www.gstwins.com/photogallery/albums/userpics/11027/normal_show5.jpg)

have a nice day! O0

more about the bike, here in the thread:  http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=9730.0



Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: gsJack on April 20, 2007, 06:59:52 AM
Gotta save that pic to post when someone asks how wide a tire they can put on a GS.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: werase643 on April 20, 2007, 07:23:45 AM
jim,
have you actually ridden the bike since these mods(before the paint).....or is it just a show piece?

then the 64,000 dollar question would have to be....
if you did this for a show piece...why didn't you build a H-D? .... since at least you could sell it and get real $ for it..  some RUB would have to have a kewl H-D.....at any cost.

Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: Jim Knopf on April 20, 2007, 09:04:45 AM
Quote from: werase643 on April 20, 2007, 07:23:45 AM
jim,
have you actually ridden the bike since these mods(before the paint).....or is it just a show piece?

then the 64,000 dollar question would have to be....
if you did this for a show piece...why didn't you build a H-D? .... since at least you could sell it and get real $ for it..  some RUB would have to have a kewl H-D.....at any cost.

servus,

to 1: i take 1500 km on the bike in september 2006. not only for show! 8)

to 2: everybody made a H-D.  ;) ;) ;)  i made the gs because nobody made a strange gs before. the gs is my love and i want to have a very specially GS. i made the gs only for me.  in a few years i made a H-D! :thumb:

Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: werase643 on April 20, 2007, 03:41:51 PM
kewl Jim,

I under stand the make it for me mentality
also that it is also pissing up a rope to get my $ back if/when I sell it

how did it ride with that tire on the back?

Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bucks1605 on April 20, 2007, 04:14:22 PM
Quote from: Jim Knopf on April 20, 2007, 03:01:39 AM
servus,

another pic from the rear wheel:

(http://www.gstwins.com/photogallery/albums/userpics/11027/normal_show5.jpg)

have a nice day! O0

more about the bike, here in the thread:  http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=9730.0





What size tire is that? It looks bigger than a 350.
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: NiceGuysFinishLast on April 20, 2007, 08:04:43 PM
It's a 360
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: scottpA_GS on April 20, 2007, 08:15:09 PM
HD's are crap!!!

Jim your GS is SWEET !!! I dont even know what to say. There is NOTHING here in the US like that... I only wish us underlings in the US could even come close to the mods that you have done time and time again to the GS...

I cant wait to see next years GS  :thumb:

You should have your own TV show... you would blow away the lame ass chopper shows here in the US !!!

Keep up the AWESOME work !!!  :cheers:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: genEricStL on April 20, 2007, 10:01:21 PM
I think the Speed Channel's supposed to have a show like biker build-off but with real bikes ... it's been a while since I read that though ... it was in an article bashing Speed's Superbikes show for giving sport riders a bad name hehe
With that GS as an entry , i'd bet if Jim were to come to the states they'd give him an episode on Biker Build-off ... they gave one to one of the mechanics from Team Jordan and he had only built the one kinda boring bike . Jim's bike SMOKES those bikes  :thumb:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bubba zanetti on April 22, 2007, 07:11:14 PM
PM sent Jim  :thumb:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bubba zanetti on April 25, 2007, 01:46:45 AM
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c290/bubba500/Rapid1.jpg)

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c290/bubba500/Rapid2.jpg)
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bubba zanetti on April 25, 2007, 01:47:17 AM
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c290/bubba500/Rapid3.jpg)

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c290/bubba500/Rapid4.jpg)
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: RVertigo on April 25, 2007, 01:48:49 AM
I think I need glasses...   :cry:
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bubba zanetti on April 25, 2007, 01:51:12 AM
I'll lend ya mine.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: Jim Knopf on April 27, 2007, 02:52:32 AM
servus Bubba Zanetti,

thanks for the scan! :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: Jim Knopf on April 27, 2007, 11:08:50 PM
servus,

the magazine is arrived.

thanks bubba.

please sent me your adress.

Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: bubba zanetti on April 28, 2007, 12:17:42 AM
PM sent Jim.
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: Jay_wolf on April 28, 2007, 04:45:10 AM
I Love All This Modification , A Bike Should Be A Reflection Of This Creator,

Amazing Bike!!
Title: Re: Jim Knopf's Eight-Ball featured in Rapid magazine
Post by: Jim Knopf on April 30, 2007, 01:39:40 AM
servus,

anybody here from england who can me send the newest issue from the Streetfighter Magazin??????????????????????????