<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-33.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Yury Shif is a famous Byelorussian customizer who designs and constructs motorcycles and then creates their doubles.</p>
<p><br />
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<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-2.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Going to his office through the workshop. It smells like paint here. The squeal of the buffing machine is followed by the knocks of some tools and the work never stops here. On the floor there are two cups reminding of the former wins.</p>
<p>There are a lot of bikes in the room, but it is a bad omen to take pictures of those which are not ready yet.</p>
<p>He didn’t study well at school, but had a strong desire to ride on something. So, his career began when he adjusted a motor to his bicycle by himself, which was not difficult for him. However, he made his his first custom Silver Stork only at age 41. Do you want to know what he’d been doing all that time in between? Who doesn’t!</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-3.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>He was a manager of a karting team which also had a success which he is proud of as well.</p>
<p>He studied in Germany and the designs he creates, do not come to him in dreams as some people think. Each motorcycle is a result of hard work.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>It so happened that customizing is considered underground in Russian and post-Soviet countries, but Yury disagrees with that saying that he’s won contests in the USA and Germany, so what he does cannot be underground by no means.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-5.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The secret of his success lies in the fact that he always tries to work harder that he should to make his bike as close to his ideal (like Silver Stork) as possible. There are lucky and unlucky streaks in is work but he never gives up.</p>
<p>The Machine.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-6.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Silver Stork. The idea to name his bike Silver Stork is not accidental. In the US and Germany a stork is associated with Belarus.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-7.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Some bikes have their doubles, made at the requests of his customers. They may have a different color or name, like Silver Stork 2. Some of his bikes go for serial production which he is very proud of, like it happened with his Мinsk М4 200 bike. Its high-quality and not too pretentious at the same time.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-8.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>To make a motorcycle, they have to make a draft, a model, an experimental model, a production piece, and then they receive a serial production model.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-9.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>He says that some of his bikes reflect the character of their owners which is hard to achieve, and adds that he has two criteria for his work: I’m not ashamed of it and I’m proud of it.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-10.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>It takes his team and him a half of a year to make a motorcycle. In the picture you see Abordage, to creat which they had to study the history of piracy. The client was more than satisfied with the work.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-11.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-12.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-13.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-14.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-15.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-16.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-17.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>But sometimes it so happens that Yury does not what his customer wants, but something that he feels right about. Thus, instead of the black Chopper, he made a white Duster and the customer liked it very much.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-19.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-20.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-21.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-22.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-23.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Both this biker and his bike look like a demon.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-24.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-25.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-26.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-27.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The owner of this motorcycle wanted to have an aerographic painting of a famous Soviet cartoon on it. Cute, isn’t it?</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-28.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-29.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-30.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>To prove that a good motorcycle can have a Russian motor and details made in Russia as well, he’s created this masterpiece.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-31.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-32.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-33.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Yury says that he has several bikes of his own but prefers to drive a car.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-34.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The hardest part is to make up a name for a bike. He named this one in Spanish – Prueba de vida – because it did not sound well in English – Proof of the life.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-35.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-36.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>One of his clients, a famous Russian actor on his bike.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-37.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Time Machine. It was named after a famous Russian music band, which later put it on the cover of its album.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-38.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is Yury’s right hand and one of the most experienced and talented workers in the team.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-39.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>His clients are mostly successful businessmen and famous people from different cities and countries of the world.</p>
<p>In the picture: Gustav Skippone.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-40.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-41.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-42.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-43.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>No Jokes.</p>
<p>If a customer does not like the bike, Yury takes it back to find another purchaser fo it. No bike is left without an owner.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-44.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>It took him much effort to prove that his motorcycles, just as Belarus, are worth attention of the American and European viewers. What he didn’t like at these competitions was that a lot of people didn’t know where Belarus was situated and asked him this question.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-45.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>He says smiling slyly, that he’s not going to build bikes all his life, and maybe later on he will shoot a movie or something. For the progeny, he has already left his bikes and now wants to leave something else.</p>
<p>Yury Shif is a famous Byelorussian customizer who designs and constructs motorcycles and then creates their doubles.</p>
<p><br />
<br /><span id="more-73568"></span></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-2.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Going to his office through the workshop. It smells like paint here. The squeal of the buffing machine is followed by the knocks of some tools and the work never stops here. On the floor there are two cups reminding of the former wins.</p>
<p>There are a lot of bikes in the room, but it is a bad omen to take pictures of those which are not ready yet.</p>
<p>He didn’t study well at school, but had a strong desire to ride on something. So, his career began when he adjusted a motor to his bicycle by himself, which was not difficult for him. However, he made his his first custom Silver Stork only at age 41. Do you want to know what he’d been doing all that time in between? Who doesn’t!</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-3.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>He was a manager of a karting team which also had a success which he is proud of as well.</p>
<p>He studied in Germany and the designs he creates, do not come to him in dreams as some people think. Each motorcycle is a result of hard work.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>It so happened that customizing is considered underground in Russian and post-Soviet countries, but Yury disagrees with that saying that he’s won contests in the USA and Germany, so what he does cannot be underground by no means.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-5.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The secret of his success lies in the fact that he always tries to work harder that he should to make his bike as close to his ideal (like Silver Stork) as possible. There are lucky and unlucky streaks in is work but he never gives up.</p>
<p>The Machine.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-6.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Silver Stork. The idea to name his bike Silver Stork is not accidental. In the US and Germany a stork is associated with Belarus.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-7.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Some bikes have their doubles, made at the requests of his customers. They may have a different color or name, like Silver Stork 2. Some of his bikes go for serial production which he is very proud of, like it happened with his Мinsk М4 200 bike. Its high-quality and not too pretentious at the same time.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-8.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>To make a motorcycle, they have to make a draft, a model, an experimental model, a production piece, and then they receive a serial production model.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-9.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>He says that some of his bikes reflect the character of their owners which is hard to achieve, and adds that he has two criteria for his work: I’m not ashamed of it and I’m proud of it.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-10.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>It takes his team and him a half of a year to make a motorcycle. In the picture you see Abordage, to creat which they had to study the history of piracy. The client was more than satisfied with the work.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-11.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-12.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-13.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-14.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-15.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-16.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-17.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>But sometimes it so happens that Yury does not what his customer wants, but something that he feels right about. Thus, instead of the black Chopper, he made a white Duster and the customer liked it very much.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-19.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-20.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-21.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-22.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-23.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Both this biker and his bike look like a demon.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-24.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-25.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-26.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-27.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The owner of this motorcycle wanted to have an aerographic painting of a famous Soviet cartoon on it. Cute, isn’t it?</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-28.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-29.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-30.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>To prove that a good motorcycle can have a Russian motor and details made in Russia as well, he’s created this masterpiece.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-31.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-32.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-33.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Yury says that he has several bikes of his own but prefers to drive a car.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-34.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The hardest part is to make up a name for a bike. He named this one in Spanish – Prueba de vida – because it did not sound well in English – Proof of the life.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-35.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-36.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>One of his clients, a famous Russian actor on his bike.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-37.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Time Machine. It was named after a famous Russian music band, which later put it on the cover of its album.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-38.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is Yury’s right hand and one of the most experienced and talented workers in the team.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-39.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>His clients are mostly successful businessmen and famous people from different cities and countries of the world.</p>
<p>In the picture: Gustav Skippone.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-40.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-41.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-42.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-43.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>No Jokes.</p>
<p>If a customer does not like the bike, Yury takes it back to find another purchaser fo it. No bike is left without an owner.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-44.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>It took him much effort to prove that his motorcycles, just as Belarus, are worth attention of the American and European viewers. What he didn’t like at these competitions was that a lot of people didn’t know where Belarus was situated and asked him this question.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/championcustomizer/customizingchampionphotos-45.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>He says smiling slyly, that he’s not going to build bikes all his life, and maybe later on he will shoot a movie or something. For the progeny, he has already left his bikes and now wants to leave something else.</p>
