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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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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 had the opportunity to attend the 34th Bator Classic Motorcycle show at El Camino College this past weekend. I uploaded a few pics to the Vindikta MySpace page, of a few of the bikes that caught my attention. The one motorcycle that I really admired was the Moto Rumi. The owner of the bike was kind enough to take some time and he educated me on the history of the Moto Rumi brand and the intricacies of this particular machine. It was truly a motorcycle that when up close, one could see the simple functionality and how it was combined with beautiful Italian art. I have a few more detailed photos of the bike that were not uploaded. If anyone wants to see more pics of a truly beautiful machine, send me an email and I’ll post/forward them to you.