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 Barnett’s Magazine Online has already featured Bryan’s outside the box approach to customs with his take on a Buell-powered Super Motard called Mindy that looked ready to take on all comers. Now, he’s been busy totally fabricating a hardcore hooligan bike for the street he calls Mabel. I say it’s a hooligan bike because I know just looking at it that I’d really, really love to wring this thing out without regard to worrying about license points or anything like that. Damn it, it looks like a fun bike to head to the nearest set of curvy roads and have at it, then turn around and give it another go.
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  If you haven’t noticed, that’s not an aftermarket or modified frame in any way. It’s a one-off tube frame that has a lovely set of curves of its own. From the twin curved down tubes that change direction and gracefully arch over the engine cases and support it from above to the twin tube swingarm, it’s got a look of its own. High-tech suspension consisting of a beefy inverted fork and long-travel twin rear shocks with their outside oil reservoirs compliment the dual radial-mounted Beringer brakes up front with a single Beringer disc setup out back. Controls are also by Beringer including the mid-mount rear controls. All nice stuff when things get a little too hairy. A set of neat looking lightweight wheels also help Mabel to stop quicker and accelerate harder.
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  Everything that’s here is here for a purpose and that purpose is to be able to hustle down the road or track at speeds that make for great fun. The handmade bodywork fits the purpose and looks surprisingly like a factory prototype. Bryan’s choice of a finish for the frame gives me the impression it’s somehow made of magnesium, which of course it isn’t, but it does metallically compliment the brushed finish of the seat/tail section and the white tank with a tasty black center stripe and a splash of gold striping on each side. The TPJ cast badge on the tank sides takes the usual painted graphics up quite a few notches in my book. All in all it’s a cohesive and properly proportioned build that looks ready for production by somebody smart enough to know a good thing when they see it.
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  Throw a little padding on the seat and I’d be ready to take off for a fun weekend. Barring that, it has the look of a bike that would love to loft its front wheel at a twitch of the throttle before laying it back down to power through the next curve. Some bikes just bring out the inner hooligan in all of us and Bryan Schimke’s Mabel is just asking for a good time regardless of whose feelings she might hurt. You gotta love a gal or a bike like that.Â