Visit the Easyriders Show on January 7th, 2012 and check out our bike and booth! Located at the Anaheim Convention Center, with hundreds of bikes and builders! Due to our busy schedule in 2012, we will ONLY be at the Anaheim location, and not attending the Sacramento show.
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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.
TrackbackIt’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!
TrackbackVindikta will be riding out to check out the American Heat Motorcycle Weekend in Palm Springs this weekend. Since Fall is approaching, we got to get our riding in when we have this great weather!
American Heat Palm Springs Motorcycle Weekend is more than just bikes. There are stunt shows, live entertainment and retail vendors galore. A portion of the proceeds from this event benefits local charities.
This Saturday, April 16th head on out to the Hippy Killer Hoedown Custom Car & Motorcycle Show in Winchester, CA. Vindikta will not be vending here, but we are attending the event to enjoy the day! Live music, vendors, food and giveaways at the Wild West Arena.
Here are more bikes that caught my eye:
A closeup.
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.
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!!!
TrackbackI’m heading out to Las Vegas on October 3rd to spend the day at the Las Vegas Bike Fest. I will be going out to support some friends at their booths, have some fun, and to scope it out for next year when I will have a booth there. I am also planning on being at the 3 day CA Bike Week in the vendor village at the end of October. If anyone will be in Vegas for the event, or at the Bike Week, let me know. I’ll post some more info on Bike Week as it draws closer.
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