If the candy-blue base with silver tribal graphics, sky-high neck, extremely long Springer frontend, and fat rigid rear section of this bike look vaguely familiar, it's most likely because you saw it splashed across the TV screen while watching the Speed Channel's American Thunder show back in '05. During the course of several episodes, the V-Twin-centric TV show highlighted the shop building this bike (Tommy Boy Inc. [TBI], located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA) followed the build, and even ran several minutes of film of Renegade star and motorcycle enthusiast Lorenzo Llamas test-riding this stretched-out, wide-tired chop.
Not too bad for a company that had just barreled out of the custom motorcycle gates. We guess the whole "right place at the right time" thing is true.
We had briefly caught a few seconds of the test-ride episode and were mildly impressed with the bike. However, a few months later while at the Laughlin River Run, we were about to turn the corner and make our way down the next row of vendors when a blinding glint of chrome shot off the neck of this super-stretched Springer.
After rubbing the stars out of our eyes, we dodged our way in and out of the path of gleaming chrome and made our way over to the bike. We were immediately impressed. The bike put off this '60-'70s chopper vibe, only compiled with modern components.
Not only was this one of the longer frontends we'd seen in a while, but the neck was kicked up so high in the sky that the ol' chopper gods had to be smiling. After inspecting the bike for several minutes, we were approached by Mr. Tommy Boy himself, Tom Amini, and his business partner, Harold Miller. We spent the next 25 minutes listening to the two of them discuss their debut tribal chopper.