A big thanks goes out to Lisa Ballard from Chop Cult for being kind enough to give AMO some national coverage or even international exposure. Mikey Arnold of Forever The Chaos Life for the kind words and Badass pics. Go check out Chop Cult this to see inside AMO! I hope you enjoy it!
This year my shop made matco history, being the first bike/fab shop to grace the pages of there 2014 tool calender. This calender was distributed nationwide and 100,000 calenders were sold in a month or so crazy crazy! My daily driver orange big twin is center stage and my cousins xs I built is up in it also!
Here are some pics of the bike that pulled down three editors choice awards in Sturgis just last month!It'so crazy, I was not expecting to win anything out there just being a small garage one man show! It sure motivated me in my shop cause now I have a feeling of "how am I gonna top this year!" I will though look out for this ride in Oct/Nov issue of the Horse backstreet choppers.
I made my first trip down to the smokeout in Rockingham, NC. My cousin Kurt and his XSsive bobber completely restored and hardtailed for this specific show. I met up with a lot of great people and builders. Nancy "nurse nut" shot my cousins bike for November's issue of the Horse! So pick up a copy
So Handy lift company sponsers our group the chop-in-block, they asked us to come and judge there 1st annual handy bike show. So we loaded acouple bikes each, that's Gary from Kustoms inc., Jesse from Raw Iron Choppers and I. The highlight of the trip was blasting around the NASCAR 3/4 mile track at 120 mph on our hand built custom chops (and the painted ladies). We will be back to support it next year so go check it out and again thanks to handy for the invite.
Biltwell seat hinge mount modified slightly. I lopt the notch off and Tig welded a 1/4 in" plate under it to give it a lil height. Then lined her up and welded it to the flat gusset. Super clean alil overboard but whatever.
Whipped these up for my cousin Kurt's 82 xs. Due to the cold and unpredictable weather in Ohio this bike has the option of heated hand and ass warmers! Slash cut and tigged welded.
My buddy Dennis dropped off the 7/8" z-bars. They started out at about 11"s center center to center. So I hacked 4 3/4" out of the middle. Spun a 3" long slug .690" diameter to slip in. Drilled acouple holes in the barz for slug welding, chanfered the ends and tigged em up. Wham Bham!
