The story so far with Hesketh Motorcycles
A little prequel to tomorrows sequel in our journey with Hesketh motorcycles
Our journey with Hesketh started with a crazed email sent by Rupert.
“Dudes you're building bikes again, first one in 33 years !!!! Have you thought about some photographs in the ultimate motor studio that could compliment your groovy masterpiece and taken by fellow motorcyclists too. You know it makes sense”
Ok so it was wine o'clock and Rupert was as excited as Jason on a chainsaw, three for one deal in Lidl.
Hesketh Motorcycles was now owned by Paul Sleeman a designer and passionate motorcyclist. Paul had spent a great deal of time maintaining and tweaking the original bikes and eventually, from what we had gathered, reached a point where he thought lets stop fixing and just build something worthy of the brand but with todays technology, grunt and style.
The Hesketh 24 was born
A thing of beauty but make no mistake this is a muscle car with two wheels if you get my drift.
After a more sensible conversation between Paul and Emma, Gun Hill Studios was commissioned to photograph and film this beast from every angle, highlighting the attention to detail behind this 2 litre monster, which due to its low centre of gravity handles like a much lighter bike but with the torque of Godzilla.
In our first shoot we shot on grey to highlight the Hesketh 24 colour scheme, even changing the motorised turntable to grey. We didn’t want to be manually turning the bike as we were also commissioned to deliver one of our high resolution 360 degree spins. The Hesketh 24 bodywork is in the unmistakable colours of James Hunt’s Hesketh F1 car with graphics designed and produced by none other than BSB champion, Tommy Hill. In fact Tommy was the first person to ride the Hesketh 24 in public at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed taking the new model up the famous hill-climb.
Torque to me baby tell me something that I wanna hear...
After some filming in and out of the studio, Rupert set about writing the theme tune based on the low pounding rhythm of this two litre twin. Yes folks best part of a litre per cylinder, on two wheels pounding into the distance with an unforgiving certainty. Deep fast and funky, that's just how we like it.
In and out of the studio reflecting the hesketh 24 in sight and sound.
Since our first shoot for the Hesketh 24 we have followed and actively supported Paul and his team at Hesketh Motorcycles. In and out of the studio we have a soft spot for supporting motoring innovation and beauty wherever we find it, along with the people behind it.
Here’s some pics from the road movie we shot down in sussex for the Hesketh 24.
Paul Sleeman and his team are never ones to stand still and after the great reception that the Hesketh 24 received they went on to build customer specific modifications such as this gold and black livery
Paul Sleeman takes a moment in the infinity cove
Moving forward here's another creation from the Hesketh Team. Stripped down metal madness, meet the Sonnet. Actually this was a nightmare to photograph. Reflections a plenty. Luckily our studio has both white and black turntables and the height to photograph from above. Chrome wasn't built in a day and photographing it was a long day but certainly worth it.
So here we are the night before another shoot or maybe you're reading this in the future. Actually you are although in your present. Yes folks its been another long day in the studio. So to tomorrows shoot which is the unveiling of the very latest Hesketh Motorcycle. I just spoke to Paul Sleeman and Gun Hill Studios will be the first to see it at 10am tomorrow morning and he wants our first impressions good or bad. He says its nuts but we can all be the judge of that ;-) Join us tomorrow for the reveal and live footage throughout the day as we show The Valiant SC some TLC and find out what it means to me ;-)
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Comments (6)
You twitts could let us hear it , but instead it was stupid music.
yeah I had to googletube it to find more info (with sound)
I'll do some raw clips when I get a mo :-)
That is beautiful motorbike
What an incredible bike...and it has my name on it!! It's 1st on the lottery win list🤞🏻
sweet ride