The Electra Amsterdam Sport is priced at $750 and has an aluminum frame, swept-back bars, 9-speed derailleur, fenders, and no chain case, lights, rack or bell. The shop had only the diamond frame version, but there is a “women’s” version – a mixte frame! I enjoyed the ride on the Amsterdam Sport a lot. For someone looking for a new commuter, I put this in a class with bikes to consider seriously. It’s lightweight and quick, but the ride is surprisingly smooth for aluminum. The seat post angle is more like a Dutch bike, so my legs go slightly forward while pedaling instead of straight down, but the torso position is sporty with the handlebars even with the seat.

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 Stephen has won many build offs and shows including 1st Place, Peoples Choice Ultimate Bike Builder's Daytona 2011, 1st Place Radical Rat's Hole Daytona 2011, Best in Show Daytona Biketoberfest 2009, and has either placed 1st or been Best in Show...   The all-billet aluminum engine is standard on the Viper Diamondback, and available for custom bike applications, starting at (excl.  With his background and experience, he is just the type of custom bike builder we wanted to partner with using our state of the art Viper/Ilmor engine.  I made my first calls that following Monday and made plans to visit the Viper folks at Daytona Bike.  We met, they looked over two bikes that I had built and was displaying and agreed that it would be mutually beneficial to do business together, and so fell into place the billet jewel of my latest creation.  There on a stand, with flattering lighting was what I knew had to be the engine for this bike. Ilmor Engineering has partnered with Viper Motorcycle Company to apply its decades of race-winning precision engineering and artful design to the classic V-Twin motorcycle engine.   Along with the dramatic performance, the engine is designed to stay cool under any conditions with the use of a unique 3-stage dry-sump oiling system providing much needed cooling to the cylinder heads, well beyond conventional air-cooling.   The result is an engine with more grunt than any other V-twin on the market:  The Viper/Ilmor 152 cubic inch, all billet, short stroke V-Twin, produces a heart-pounding 159 ft-lbs of torque.

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