Hey, what's going on.
I'm Christopher de Francesco custom bike builder from Toronto
at a shop called Vicious Cycles.
The bike's inspired by Indian Larry loved his work.
Growing up, watching biker build off.
You can see all the inspiration in the build from him and all the different
little things that Indian Larry loved putting on his motorcycles.
So.
That's where all the inspiration came from.
I wanted a modern riding and the reliability out of a modern motorcycle.
Make it an old chopper, Indian Larry style, and that you can jump
on and ride whenever you wanted to.
No problems, fuel injection.
You use the key fob, just like a brand new Harley Davidson would,
get on it.
You fire it up with the key fob and take off and go.
I had Skin's Custom Paint, paint the bike.
He's a local artist in Ontario.
I, I went to him with this idea of just a flame paint job,
something retro, something cool that an old chopper would have.
He came up with the color.
He, he, he got a Brandy Candy Red from House Colors, Silverlake
from House Of Color as well.
And he went with a rainbow flake.
And in the sun, the different angles when it hits it, it just
changes colors like a rainbow.
It's really cool.
I love the paint job so much.
It actually inspired me to name the bike El Diablo, the colors made it look like
it's something that the devil would ride.
So what better name than El Diablo for this bike?
Indian Larry had his right hand, man.
Paul Cox always make his seat.
So I love that style seat cause I emailed him and I said, look,
I want a seat pan made by you.
If you could do that for me, that'd be awesome.
He made me the seat pan and actually signed the bottom side
of it and shipped it out to me.
And then I had Julio Menna of Menna Custom Seats.
He wrapped it, did the leather work, all the tooling, the dying, all the stitching.
He did all that because the theme of the bike and the
name of the bike is El Diablo.
I gave him this idea.
I wanted the devil's skull and you know, the name of the bike on the seat.
And then he kind did the rest and it came out perfect.
The stock frame wasn't gonna do took the motor right out of this thing.
We actually chopped the frame up.
It had a U channel in this section here.
It, it was hideous.
It, it looked so stupid and I really wanted to open it up.
Really make it look like a custom frame, like a, a custom rigid frame.
Obviously it's still a Softail.
So you have a suspension when you ride it rides.
Great.
Really?
It looks like an Indian Larry frame now.
So the front Springer is a DNA Springer.
It's actually four under four under meaning four inches shorter than a stock
length, DNA Springer that they sell.
And the reason I wanted it four under was to make the bike sit really low.
The only way to achieve that was getting the four under front end.
The bars are a Burly narrow ape.
With internal throttle, Performance Machine controls, we got Resurrexion
Cycles risers, identical Indian Larry risers, which look super cool.
He's famous for the throwback risers.
He ran him on all his choppers.
When I saw his resurrection cycles sold them, I needed a set.
They fit the bike.
Perfect.
These are Sampson Side Winder exhaust.
They really look like they're custom built.
Like I bent them and weld them myself, but really you can order it right off
their website, right off the catalog.
It's right from Sampson.
They sound incredible.
They look incredible.
So that's why I really love running these cuz still a modern Harley.
A lot of guys love accessibility with parts, especially you can order 'em
online, throw 'em on and they give you that old school look that old
school sound can go wrong with them.
Right?
The Panhead rocker boxes make the twin cam look old and
obviously Indian Larry always.
Panhead and his, so I wanted it to still have that style and that look
of an old Panhead, but of course the reliability and the modern
technology of a fuel injected twin can.
Right.
So yeah, the dish.
Yeah.
The whole thing.
The seat is beautiful.
El Diablo yeah.
Name of the bike.
Beautiful.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Congratulations.
Thank.
That's cool every time, every time, but it's awesome.
I love the
reaction.
People have to, it.