about us

TGS owner and
proprietor Tobias Guckel,
Motorcycle Master Craftsman

and Gifted Design Engineer,

with expirience in the

motorcycle and automotive industries since 1989.

TGS Motorcycles
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Tobias Guckel Special
Motorcycles

Tobias rides Motorcross Bikes since the middle of the 80´s and numerous

Race Bikes, Harleys and
TGS Custombikes,
he has many years of experience on all makes and models of bikes as a Motorcycle Mechanic.
Tobias has specialised on

Newbuild-Custombikes, but any form of repairs, as well as regular after-sales service work is undertaken at
TGS Motorcycles.

My first bike was a “Zündapp KS 80” that I bought myself when I was only 12 years old. It cost 25 Euro and I modified it adding a new fender and changing the guise with metalwork, removing all the useless parts. I designed a “John Player Special” painting scheme in black and gold and swapped the handlebars for one from a motocross bike.
I used to be a motocross rider and bought myself a Yamaha Motocross bike in the middle of the 80's. I trained at last two hours a day on my home-made Motocross track, but as time went on became fascinated in Sport Bikes and mostly rode my bikes at high speed. I have owned about ten Suzuki GSXR750's which have all received severe work-overs: Weight-loss, new paint, modified GFK parts, engine and chassis tuning, etc. I consider design to be as equally important as the technology.

In 1995, I had a motorcycle accident on the way to training on the Salzburgring in Austria. The bike was totally destroyed. I had had a lot of accidents before this one, but this was by far the worst. It made me want to quit following a career of becoming a racer and I have since slowed down a bit.

At the end of the 80's, I had served my apprenticeship in a Ford automobile workshop where I learned about metal working, painting and bodywork. I then worked for seven years at a big motorcycle shop with a racing team building race bikes, but also choppers and streetfighters. As well as being a painter, my responsibilities included overhauling and repairing engines and gearboxes. Field experience was gained working on Suzuki, Kawasaki, Ducati, Aprilia, Cagiva and KTMs.

In 1998, I decided to open my own workshop repairing and rebuilding racers, choppers and streetfighters and in 2000, I built my first custombike for one of my customers. This was a turning point and I realised that building custombikes was my passion.

Old Style has always been my favourite and is likely to remain so. Rigid, wild, fast and loud.

To begin, the idea of form and design are purely in my head. Despite drawing the idea onto paper, further ideas come to mind during the build and become integrated into the design as I go along, refining the final bike.

Outside my work on custombikes, I am also a fan of historic sports cars. In the past I have tuned cars, but these days tend to concentrate more on the bikes. Only my personal car collection gets a tuning now and then: an NSU TT, a Mini Cooper and a Porsche Carrera 911.

Numerous awards confirm the quality of our work:

3. place "CCE Bikes", official european championship of custom bike building
in Mainz 2010 with "Vitus Motorcycle"

1. place "best of show" AMD show, international winner,
with "Seppster 3 Speed Junkey" in Zürich/Swiss Performance 2010

Winner European Biker Build Off 2009 with "Sgt. Pepper"

2. place "Radical" in Faak am See 2009 with "Seppster 3 Speed Junkey"
3. place "Oldstyle" in Faak am See 2009 with "HD Panhead"
1. place "Rat´s Hole Show", Sturgis/USA 2009 with "Seppster 3 Speed Junkey"
9. place official world championship of custom bike building,USA 2009 with "Seppster 3 Speed Junkey"
1. place "best Custombike", Pullman City Harley Stampede 2009 with "Seppster 2 Ice Racer"
1. platz "master brain" in Saalbach Hinterglemm/Biker Mania 2009 with "Seppster 3 Speed Junkey"
1. place "best inovation bike" in Saalbach 2009 with "Seppster 3 Speed Junkey"
1. place "Bobber" in Saalbach Hinterglemm 2009 with "HD Panhead"
2. place "Bobber" in Saalbach Hinterglemm 2009 with "Interstellar Overdrive"
3. place "Custombike" in Saalbach Hinterglemm 2009 with "Carrera"
1. place "Custom Chrome Bikes", official european chamiponship of custom bike building,
Mainz 2009 with "Interstellar Overdrive"
and best german customizer in freestyle class 2009 with "Seppster 3 Speed Junkey"

1. place "best of show", Faak am See 2008 with "Seppster 2 Ice Racer"
2. place "radical", Faak am See 2008 with "Seppster 2 Ice Racer"
1. place "ride in show", Faak am See 2008 with "HD Panhead"
2. place Intermot Köln bikeshow 2008 with "Seppster 2 Ice Racer"

3. place official world championship of custom bike building, USA 2008 with "Seppster 2 Ice Racer"
1. place "legend top 50 show", USA 2008 with "Seppster 2 Ice Racer"

1. place "best chopper", Pullman City Harley Stampede 2008 with "Suzie Wong"
2. place "best racer", Pullman City Harley Stampede 2008, with "Carrera"
3. place "best racer", Pullman City Harley Stampede 2008, with "Helter Skelter"

3. place official european championship of custom bike building,
Mainz 2008 with "Seppster 2 Ice Racer"
1. place "kitbikes", official european championship of custom bike building,
Mainz 2008 with "Voodoo Child"

1. place "oldstyle", Faak am See 2007 with "Seppster"
2. place "oldstyle", Faak am See 2007 with "Voodoo Child"
2. place "ride in show", Faak am See 2007 with "Seppster"

1. place "best of show", Pullmann City Harley Stampede 2007 with "Seppster"
3. place "best chopper", Pullmann City Harley Stampede 2007 with "Erwin´s Highnecker"

5. place official european championship of custom bike building, Mainz 2007 with "Seppster"
1. place "kitbikes" official european championship of custom bike building,
Mainz 2007 with "Helter Skelter"
1. place "president´s pick award", Mainz 2007 with "Seppster"

1. platz "best of show", custombike und streetfighter expo, Ingolstadt 2007 with "Seppster"

1. place "oldstyle", Faak am See 2006 with "Helter Skelter"
1. place "best poser" Pullman City Harley Stampede 2006 with "Enter the Dragon"
1. place "best paint" Pullman City Harley Stampede 2005 with "Enter the Dragon"
1. place "best poser" Pullman City Harley Stampede 2005 with "Green Hornet"
3. place "oldstyle", Faak am See 2004 with "Retrolution"
1. platz "loud bike", Bavarian Steel Days 2004 with "Green Hornet"
1. place "nice bike", Bavarian Steel Days 2004 with "Orange Dragstyle"
3. place "nice bike", Bavarian Steel Days 2004 with "Green Hornet"
7. place official european championship of custom bike building, Mainz 2004 with "Green Hornet"
1. place "oldstyle", Pullman City Harley Stampede 2002 with "Lotus Bobber"

Headquarters

Building and facilities work began in 1998 -
the company TGS Motorcycles was founded in 1999

Master Craftsman certification in 2000

In 2001 expansion of the company headquarters

(Workshop, Office Area, Warehouse, and Display Floor to 400 m²
[approx. 4300 ft²])

2008/2009
Expansion of the Display Floor, Warehouse, as well as the Workshop
to approx. 1000 m² [10800 ft²]
and the building of new Assembly and Metalworking Shops