Vindikta

Start the New Year out right by hitting up the Easy Rider Show on January 7th, 2012! Located at the Anaheim Convention Center, there are hundreds of bikes and builders! We will be there with our booth and a bike in the show, so look for Vindikta and say hello!

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Holiday rush overwhelming you already? Cruise on down to the coast and visit the David Mann Chopperfest in Ventura. The location is right on the beach, and enjoy the creative bikes that fellow bikers have built. Vindikta will be there vending with our booth, so look for us in the vendor area! This year, we will have a bike in the chopper show, too!

The 8th annual ChopperFest will be held at the Ventura County Fairgrounds this Sunday, December 11th 2011 from 8am-4pm. ChopperFest is a tribute to David Mann featuring a New and Old Skool Motorcycle Show, Custom Bike Builder Displays, New and Used Parts Swap Meet, Motorcycle Vendors, Art Display, Live Blues Rock Bands, Food and Beer. This signature event gathers together those who honor the lifestyle depicted in David Mann’s artwork and appreciate the many custom “Chopper” designs spawned by his unique imagination. Past participants have included Russell Mitchell, Chica, Dave Perewitz, Keith Ball, Donny Smith, Scott Long and Gard Hollinger. As always, David Mann’s wife Jacquie will fly out from Kansas City to present the “hand crafted and one of a kind Bike Show trophies.” To top it all off, a rare original painting by the master himself will once again grace the event T-Shirts and promotions. A portion of all proceeds will go to the David Mann Memorial Fund.

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It’s nearly here! The David Mann Chopperfest will be bigger than ever with loads of bikes, vendors, and fun! Check out our Vindikta booth, and look for our signature red & black!

The 8th annual ChopperFest will be held at the Ventura County Fairgrounds this Sunday, December 11th 2011 from 8am-4pm. ChopperFest is a tribute to David Mann featuring a New and Old Skool Motorcycle Show, Custom Bike Builder Displays, New and Used Parts Swap Meet, Motorcycle Vendors, Art Display, Live Blues Rock Bands, Food and Beer. This signature event gathers together those who honor the lifestyle depicted in David Mann’s artwork and appreciate the many custom “Chopper” designs spawned by his unique imagination. Past participants have included Russell Mitchell, Chica, Dave Perewitz, Keith Ball, Donny Smith, Scott Long and Gard Hollinger. As always, David Mann’s wife Jacquie will fly out from Kansas City to present the “hand crafted and one of a kind Bike Show trophies.” To top it all off, a rare original painting by the master himself will once again grace the event T-Shirts and promotions. A portion of all proceeds will go to the David Mann Memorial Fund.

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Our shop will be closed on November 24th and 25th to observe the Thanksgiving holiday. We have the David Mann and Easy Rider motorcycle shows on the horizon, so we have big things planned and a chopper to complete! Add us on Facebook to see our bike work in progress!

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Want to see our newest creations? Check out the GALLERY section of our website, to view our latest work!

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.

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.

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

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!!!

I just went out to the event for Saturday and made it to the Artistry in Iron event just after the show opened and as most people were heading for the vendors, I got the opportunity to have Kris Krome give me and a few other people a detailed overview of his Sturgis World Championship bike. Later I got to meet and ask questions to guys such as Bryan Fuller, Todd Silicato, Gard Hollinger and Christian Dotson. They were just hanging out next to their bikes and were all really down to earth and eager and friendly to answer the myriad of questions I had about their designs. That really made the trip worth it. When you have the opportunity to ask the “why” of aspects in the builds it really is inspiring.
For Example, Kris Krome’s bike was made primarily from polished stainless steel, the front end didn’t turn at the traditional head tube, it had two pivot points within the frame. The front axle was connected to the forks in what was essentially a hidden springer design that were two internal bearings. (he has pics on his site and U-tube videos of the build).

Most of bikes in the general show were the primarily the standard “theme” and “Easter egg” designs, with some exceptions. I liked the bikes from the guys at Sacred Steel Cycles, No flash, wild paint, just pure mechanical simplicity, design, form and function. I posted pics of a few of the bikes in the Artistry in Iron show and my favorite Sacred Steel bike that was in the general show.