I wanted to build a clean and simple bike with good lines, but like everyone else, I wanted something different. I really liked the lines of Jesse's El Diablos, but I didn’t want to build an exact duplicate. I ordered the frame with 6 inches up and 2 inches out, plus a 10-inch over front end.

I mounted the tank high up on the backbone, and I shortened my risers to 2 inches with drag bars. I placed the rear fender on the bike and kept cutting it till I liked the look. I knew I didn’t want a sprung seat, and I can’t stand the really big fat seats either. So I made a small seat pan and figured out a way to mount it like a flip up seat.

When I originally started this build my intention was to use a stock twin cam and 6-speed transmission, but not knowing when I was going to get to do this again, I talked myself into an S&S 113. Since I went with 113, I continued my plan of the 6-speed transmission, a Primo 3-inch belt drive system and a Spyke starter.

Now that the driveline was complete I spent a day making a set of pipes. I wanted something that was a little trick but loud was the main motivating factor. With the mock up complete, the big question of how not to paint it loomed.

I wanted to do something for the finish that I knew very few people would copy and hopefully piss some people off. I searched the internet for 24 hours and found a patina for metal. The process of applying a patina is kinda simple, you start out by sanding your metal to get it really smooth, you then heat the metal and apply the patina in circular motion let it sit for 12 hours and apply the sealer.

When you apply the sealer this particular patina goes from the look of rust to a dark rich rusty brown finish. Once the Patina was finished I hooked up with this artist named Mike Adair and let him go to town on the tins.

After seeing Mike's graphics, I knew I had to do something crazy for the seat. Since I had this Chulo skull on the tank with a blue rag I wanted to figure out some way to incorporate a blue bandana into the seat. So I tooled and laced a pieces of leather and sewed it to the bandana and wrapped the seat in the rag.

I also made a piece of leather that is riveted to the underside of the seat and then stained the leather with an antique tan finish. Just to let you know there is very little chrome on this bike, I used as many pieces as possible that were polished for the simple reason that as the metal oxidizes I think it will add to the whole look of the bike.