Being an old Shovel, she needs about eight hours of love after every 40 hours of riding, but she starts 99 percent of the time on one kick. "I personally refuse to ride a bike with push button start," Noel stated. Noel swears she rides true, and is able to maintain speeds of 85 to 90 mph. Noel has conquered South Dakota's Needles Highway in Custer State Park aboard her and swears she was in her element taking the famous curves and eating the road. "The bike rides really good. For example, when me and the boys are out riding on our hardtails and we come up to a set of railroad tracks I accelerate, lift my feet up even with the tank, and look back as I fly over the tracks with a big smile on my face as everybody else slows down to three miles an hour and is standing up. They all have given me the finger because my steel seat on a mountain bike shock has 6 inches of travel and I don't even feel a bump," Noel lamented.
The bars are positioned to give the perfect ergonomics between the riders' seat to their hands. There's nothing like trying to ride an uncomfortable bike, Noelski ensured this bike was built to ride. With every design component, he designed the look to compliment the ride. In other words, he built this bike with the rider in mind, the way a builder should. "I have a crossover on the lower frame rail with a chain over it and an X welded underneath the tranny as well as a brace on the down tubes under the neck-it all really helps eliminate the twisting a frame wants to do. Another unique thing about that bike or the bikes I build, is I put transmission adjusters on the tranny plate. You wouldn't adjust your rear wheel without those two bolts back there, so why would you run a open primary transmission and tighten the belt with no plate without two simple little bolts. It takes a lot of effort out of aligning your primary belts up.
And here's another little sidebar about this bike and its paint. I had a vision in my head of a burnt rust, sunset sunburst, fiery warm orange color. I painted this bike to be seen at night under a street light in front of a bar somewhere. I explained the color to John Kosmoski and a bunch of other paint guys, but nobody knew what color I was talking about. I spent $400 on Kandy from the Exotic Color collection, got it to the shop and when I was ready to start painting the color just wasn't going to do it. Then I had a can of tangerine sitting on the shelf that I spotted, I had been up for three days, I did a bunch of test sprays but nothing was close. Then I grabbed this can of Kandy that I had for I don't know how long and thought if I put this on two or three times heavier than it's supposed to be sprayed I might get what I want. I wasn't even sure until eight to 10 coats later when my brain was saying "that's the color."
Now, as for the name. Well for starters her maiden voyage was at midnight to the Seville Gentlemen's Club in downtown Minneapolis-nicest club in town. I always wanted to call it, Seville, but never gave it too much thought. I couldn't come up with any other name that fit that bike better than Seville. It rides and looks like a Seville, so that's what I named it. Subsequently it's sponsored by the Gentlemen's Club by the same name.