I
used to hate Harleys when I was a kid. Oil leaking
pieces of junk with decades
old engineering. I raced motocross and I thought
the technology of the Jap bikes was cool. I kind
of like Harleys now. It must be me that changed
because their bikes are still about the same.
I started my machine shop back in '93 and I wanted to build
bikes starting around '98. The only problem besides the lack
of time and money, was that the bike scene seemed to be all
overblown, stretched out, billet barge garbage. Not very interesting,
so bike building was still on the back burner.
Two
things happened in '00 and '01 that got me going. The first
was motorcycle mania
on the Discover
Channel and the
other was finding "The Horse" magazine #15 on the
news stand. Before "The Horse" I never knew there
was cool stuff out there.
So here we are, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting
a new chopper shop, and we're one of 'em.
Anyway, we build our own frames and do the CNC machining in
house. Our goal is to do a kind of a production deal where
we're able to keep the prices reasonably affordable.
-GS-