The original factory Indian clutch and foot brake pedals don't have any style to them at all so creating new ones were mandatory for us. We wanted to give the edges some style so we went for a rounded look and drilled some chamfered holes into them for a cool effect, which also flowed in with the sissy bar. Steering dampeners were cool back in their day and I wanted to create a totally custom Kiwi made steering dampener. The boys created the knob that represented Saturn with its rings around it. Quite a nice finishing touch which brings in the space theme.
Designing an exhaust system for a bike is one of those items that can either make or break a bike and we needed it to be outstanding and complement the rest of the bike. One of our friends named "Bagger" dropped in during the fabrication stages of the build and when he saw the bike he went digging through his junk pile at home and donated us two very cool rocket shape exhaust tips. No one had any idea what they were off but they were just plain cool.
Travis Bonde is a very talented fabricator who stops by regularly as he loves to see what we have going on at the shop. Travis started pounding on some sheetmetal and eventually created a cool tank. He sat it on the frame and wow, now we had our tank, perfect. Since the Chica rear fender had a rib down the center of it, we thought it would be cool to have a matching rib running down the center of the gas tank.
Shirley from Bad Ass Seats in Las Vegas got word of our bike build through a mutual friend and she insisted on donating one of her awesome hand crafted custom seats that Ronnie from Pyrographix designed. Shirley is a cool English lady who is so sweet that even though we had other offers to do our seat, she was the one.
The paintwork on this bike is super nice, however, I purposely didn't want a deluxe finish on the frame and forks. This took Josh from Nostalgia Restyling quite by surprise as it is contrary to what Josh likes to produce. All of our frame and fork joints are TIG welded and are absolutely perfect and there is no way we were going to have them covered up with filler. We wanted to show them off so there was no filler work done to the weld areas.
Monte Moore who is an outstanding artist was excited to do the tank art for the bike build. When I asked why he was so excited, he replied "man you build the most kick ass bikes on earth, why wouldn't I be?" When you look into his work on the tank you will see the finest of details. Our handlebar height had to be no higher than 48 inches as it had to fit inside of a van. Likewise, with the sissy bar, as it too could not exceed 48 inches either.
The Kiwi guys Scott and Mader contributed to the build as well and had the idea of making a rocket look like it was coming from the engine area and piercing through the steering neck and coming out the front and incorporating the front part into a head light mount.
When I saw the chrome work that Nick and Mariana (Riverside Plating) did on the rear fender it totally blew me away as they fully chromed the fender and it was a beautiful work of art, just absolutely perfect.
After several hard weeks of work, the bike's final assembly started coming together. First was the leaf spring pack with its chrome and red alternating leaf colors, then the forks onto the frame, a front wheel and then the rear wheel and before you knew it was up on wheels and looking mighty "tight". I have several kick ass Kiwi Tribe guys working with me on this build which I can't speak highly enough about, Scott Mills, Justin Hale (Mader) and Joe Lambert (Engine Joe).
Some companies really rocked and made things happen for us and without them this project would not have been done from start to finish in eight weeks.
We are "the Principal of old school" and when school is in session others will pay attention to the principal. We've set a new standard.