Lawless Bikes

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December 2017, there is a little bit of the xmas holidays over and I feel inspired to do something productive with the time...

But first a little meet & greet: My name is Johann de Wet, I live with 3 beautiful blonde women (my wife Ilze and 2 daughters Iva and Amelie) in the equally beautiful town of Paarl (translates as Pearl rather fittingly) in Western Cape, South Africa. Since I can remember I’ve always been in love with everything 2 wheels. Back to the Lawless Bikes story then...

I was busy with a little DIY project to build some tables and chairs for my daughters’s rooms. Somewhere between googling images for this project and cafe racer motorcycles I came upon some wooden balance bikes which got the creative juices flowing. Since I had some wood left from the mentioned project I thought I’d attempt to build a balance bike for my girls inspired by some of my favourite motorcycles. This first attempt came out surprisingly cute and a couple of colleagues asked me to build bikes for them as well.

I decided to create a facebook account for the bikes, mainly to share the hobby, and had to decide on a name. My surname, De Wet, translates to “The Law” which inspired “Law Bikes” and later morphed into a more fun “Lawless Bikes”. Since then there have been many iterations of the bikes in an attempt to improve the quality and usability. I now have a few base models which I use as the base and customise them according to customer’s wishes.

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