Vindikta

Just a sample of some of the seat pans heading out this week to some of the leather workers that use our pans, and some extra for the upcoming Long Beach motorcycle swap meet. The pans are laser cut from 11 gauge steel and the stainless steel mounts are TIG welded. We don’t use carriage bolts or 5 cent bolts from the local depot store. Some people want the pans just bent with nothing welded to them and even a few go out just as the laser cut blank with no bend. We’ve done quite a few custom orders for customers that wanted a specific style or radius and some of these pans have had some incredible leather attached to them on a few award winning bikes. In the next few weeks, we’ll add the contact info for a few of the leather workers that use these pans and turn out some mind blowing artwork.

With a little help, I got the shovel head engine and trans pulled from the donor bike. I would have liked to keep the original frame, but it was too badly damaged from the accident that it was in with the previous owner.

Fortunately, I happen to have the original frame that the engine belonged to, and I decided to hard tail it and make some slight modifications. I cut the rear swing arm section off and also chopped the neck. I want to keep the original cast gusset and HD numbers. I am planning on stretching the neck as well as adding the hard tail. I salvaged some 1 1/8 tubing from the wrecked frame for the stretch and the plan is to use 1 ¼” for the rear section. The plan is to have it together by the end of August, hopefully.

 Second photo

I will start adding into my blog posts some behind the scenes looks at what I do here in my shop. I field questions from people inquiring how things are done, so I will show some photos of various works in progress. Here are some photos of replicating a vintage bar for a customer’s bike. Here, I figure out the angles by laying out the bends.

 
A closeup of one side.

Another busy week and my weekend is already here! Getting the bike ready for a run up to San Francisco soon, I’ll be posting pics of what I see on my travels, as well as photos from past bike shows I’ve attended. If you haven’t already, head to the Long Beach to see me at the SoCal Motorcycle Swap Meet at Veteran’s Stadium. It’s every month, rain or shine. And wow, it has been shine with this California summer heat!

I finally got around to making a Facebook page for the business after I keep having so many people tell me that I should have one. It’s nothing too fancy, just a lot of pics of the shop, projects, customer’s bikes, recent trips and some friends I ride with. I’m going to try and keep it updated on a weekly basis with stuff, as time permits. But feel free to check it out, become a fan, or not, and add pics or comments, just search for Vindikta and you’ll see the fan page. I’m not using it to market or sell anything, just an easy way to keep things updated and to share some stuff. Thanks !!