Vindikta

Seat Pans Available

Joe De Vita — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:40:27 +0000

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.

Rigid Build Update

Joe De Vita — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:38:42 +0000

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

Duplicating a Vintage Bar

Joe De Vita — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:29:36 +0000

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.

Time Flies

Joe De Vita — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:00:34 +0000

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!

Vindikta now on Facebook

Joe De Vita — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:16:41 +0000

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 !!

Motorcycle Art Show in Orange on July 17th

Joe De Vita — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:49:06 +0000

Motorcycles as art? Any rider knows that this rings true and the Blacksmith Gallery in Orange is celebrating! A show of metalworkers, engravers, leather craftsmen and more in a show entitled, “Thy Will Be Done”. The gallery is located at 1014 N. Parker Street in Orange and will be in full swing by 6pm. Come and show your support to those who also see the beauty of bikes and the freedom of riding!

Born Free and Vatos y Viclas shows

Joe De Vita — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:00:39 +0000

For everyone that skipped the Ink N Iron festival and the Bakersfield Thunder Run on Saturday and made it to the 2nd annual Born Free Show, you got to see some great bikes and lots of friends. Hopefully this event will continue to grow in popularity. The show was a big street party, with lots of great bikes, free food and sodas (just throw in a donation to support the cause) and a beautiful pan head that was being raffled off and an overall great time. Definitely make it out to support the cause next year. I took some general pics of some of the bikes and the event that I have on the MySpace and FaceBook. On Sunday I rode with some friends that took me to Vatos y Viclas event in Temecula, another good event. It was a different genre of bikes from Born Free, but a good party another good day and a great weekend of bikes, friends and riding.

1979 HD Shovelhead

Joe De Vita — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:40:04 +0000

Here are a few pics of the latest project I’m trying to work on in my spare time. I acquired a 1979 HD shovelhead from a friend of mine. It was in an accident about 5 years ago and has been sitting in storage. The frame had so much bondo, old purple metal flake paint and was covered with rattle can black. I got most of it off and you can see the frame after in came back from sand blasting. I’m going to hard tail the frame and keep the bare bones theme to the bike. The current pic shows the engine in the cracked and bent frame from the accident.

Custom Handlebars

Joe De Vita — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:34:17 +0000

Vindikta offers custom motorcycle handlebars!

Any style in 7/8, 1″, 1 1/4

All bars dimpled for stock controls

All 1″ bars are now available in Polished Stainless Steel for $145

Slotting for internal wiring available

Prices begin at $150 for RAW STEEL
Powder Coating add $60
Chrome add $80

Check out our popular Narrow Apes and Sweeper bars

http://stores.ebay.com/Vindikta

All Handlebars are 100% fabricated in house at our shop in Southern California

Please allow 2-3 weeks for custom orders
Contact: info@vindikta.com
Phone: (909) 215-9489

Latest Project

Joe De Vita — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:53:55 +0000

Here’s a pic of the latest project in the shop. My buddy Andy at Live Wire Fab Works is taking this on and making some adjustments to it. Nothing being done to the bike is from a catalog or “off the shelf”. Everything that is being added to the bike will be hand fabricated. The bike will have a custom set of hand built pipes, a sissy bar, modified “old school” passenger pegs and various other adjustments to achieve the look the customer wanted. The tag bracket is built by Andy and is 3/16ths steel, 100% Tig welded and comes in a vertical and horizontal frame. They are built to your specs whether you want it to mount to your ¾” or 1” axle or your passenger peg mount.
The black bike is a stock Harley soft tail Night Train. There was no cutting or welding to the stock frame involved in making this look. It includes a set of Andy’s pipes and his rear fender that he fabricated to achieve this look. This bike turns heads and gets a crowd around it wherever we ride.
I’ll post the completed pics of the project bike up in about 2-3 weeks. If anyone is interested in having Andy do some custom work for you or you just want to ask him a question, you can contact him at LiveWireFabWorks@yahoo.com, or get in touch with me. He also shares a booth with me at the Long Beach Cycle Swap/Show every month so stop by and say hi.
More bikes and more custom work will be posted in the coming months!!!