Spirit Lake Motorcycles is True To The Spirit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- What began as building motorcycles in his kitchen became a full-time gig for Brian Sloma. After listing one of his creations on Craigslist, and things just spiralled from there.
“You see a car for nothing but a car,” says Brian Sloma, “…even if it has rims, is wrapped, and has wings-it’s still the same car. But you take a bike, you change the tank and the seat…what is it?”
Finding bikes they like, fixing them up, and updating them is perhaps not as well-known as the firm’s now-flagship creation, a BMW R 90/6 that’s been heavily modified-from its Honda fuel tank on down.
“Some people thought it was cool, some people thought it was awesome, some people thought it was just…ridiculous, and, like, that it shouldn’t belong,” says Ken Chan.
Using many custom tricks that have since fallen by the wayside, the Spirit Lake duo says they’re still small enough to not have a ton of pressure on their shoulders if something doesn’t quite turn out the way they’d envisioned.
“We don’t have a distinct style, but we have a distinct method,” says Sloma. “It’s cleanliness, when we put something together, it looks factory-or, it’s functional-it can be beat on, dropped…there’s different mindsets for where you want to go.”
For those who don’t have a motorcycle yet, don’t worry, Sloma’s advice is simple: “…try it, and if you like it, you like it. If you don’t you don’t…but you probably will!”
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You guys need to make more videos about classic bikes like these. Thanks for the awesome content !!!
So true! People can see when u r building something because u love it, and not for the money. I'm so glad they have their priorities correct :) Beautiful!
Awesome guys ! (the Chevy needs it's own video )
Ichiban Moto Can we get 5 out of 5 Ichiban Moto stickers?
Spirit Lake Cycles bad ass! sticker trade ? or send me stuff to use in a video ?
really like when this channel make videos about motorcycles !!! should do more about different bikes like ducati !
still one of (if not) the best Petrol head serious videos on TH-cam .
Beautiful bikes and the light was amazing.
Honda tank on the BMW nice fresh idea that BMW finished was amazing great video ❤️
I want the Chevy pick up! She makes me wanna fall in love.
Man watching this channel all day it's about 90% BMW
Great work gents, those bikes are beautiful !
Ironically "Spirit Lake" was destroyed by Mt. St. Helens.
That first line about car/motorcycle customizing is the exact opposite of true. Cool bikes though.
lettersfromhelen What the hell was he thinking when he said that?
Seriously pulled that statement from his ass.
Well, he has a point. You can put a wing, some rims, a bodykit on a Miata, swap in something more powerful, shake the crap out of suspension, but it's still a Miata, invariably cute and sporty. With motorcycles, though, change a tank and a seat, and cruiser turns into a cafe racer, and vice-versa. Even mechanical changes can alter the look, because, well, everything is exposed.
lettersfromhelen Don't know where he was going with it. Amazing bikes, but that quote needs a redo.
lettersfromhelen I'm a car and a bike guy, and he's right. A customized BMW R90 could look and be something completely different from the factory bike and entirely unique. Motorcycles are much more of a canvas for the owner to make it his/her own. That's just a fact. It doesn't mean cars aren't great, beautiful, or fun.
You can change a car to be what you want it to be.. I still don't see how cars 'aren't as unique' as motorcycles. You can make a car look like something completely different, and all it would take is some time and some money, just as these bikes do.
Yay Petrolicious!
Jason Najm I know, been waiting 2 weeks thought I missed last week but there was none last week .
i love the spirit of this video!!✌belgium
you know i am a car guy who owns some bikes and loves them as much as cars but that first line was complete bullshit i mean what the hell guys
Hello, I love your videos, and i wonder how do you make them look so beatiful!!
These bikes have style that only comes from a custom builder.
I don't get why they were in the pickup
Great!
Yes Brian Sloma, change the tank and seat of a 1500cc Harley and watch it turn into an enduro bike...
interesting name for the company - since you appear to be in DTLA, did it originate from the 'spirits' found in the lake at Echo Park?...
These guys have been watching Paul Sr. too much, the bikes have soul, they are too young to have it!
Is it really possible to register a bike in California without mufflers?Or do these " custom" bikes all end up as static display corpses?
Beards and bikes. You guys are legit.
😎😎
Just gained a passion
Those palm trees though.
Petrolicious uploading a video where a guy bashes on cars within the first sentence out of his mouth? Interesting move petrolicious.....
Nikola Dumeljic Petrolicious is concentrate on automotive awesomeness. There will be some that will not be all about cars, nor all about motorcycles. Why does it matter if he feels that cars are boring? It is his opinion. Are we not open to opinion now?
All I stated was that its a weird move, and you ask if people aren't entitled to opinions anymore? Therefore implying something about my opinion aren't you? Mister irony. Don't read what is not there
Nikola Dumeljic
Well, you got me there.
....hold on....you chopped upan R 90S????!
First comment about cars is totally not true
Cool stuff - but I still don't know where this "build bikes" terminology ever came from. Existing bikes are semi-disassembled, and reassembled with a few different bits and pieces. Not singling this shop out, because all of the custom shops toss the same words around. But if a customer brings you a bike, and picks up the same bike when it's done....a bike wasn't "built".
0:35 #triggered
Millennial hipsters are the internet’s red headed step children ..
First comment yussssss
A lot of hipster bike shops popping up now.
s0nnyburnett Yeah, it's a big thing. Most of these people can't make a bike run for shit though, especially older BMW's. Yeah, they're simple and all bit that means You really have to know tuning well, and too many people don't know a good running bike from something that runs like crap. I'm glad to see the interest, but really not happy about people running up the prices on these bikes without even knowing how to make them run.
Been in the business too long as a master BMW tech, I'll have to get My own shop going as I miss the work (car restoration is too much like bodywork instead of getting to be a mechanic).
Oldbmwr100rs
Grab them while you can.
s0nnyburnett Oh, I'm sort of an old guy with some of the euro bike folk in the SF bay area and am well known enough. I really need to just get off My ass and take the jump into getting My own shop up again, working for people has so many benefits without all the risks though, know what I mean?
Why do bikes return such poor fuel economy
CORRIGEEN71 Most bikes rev to 10-14kRPMs, You have to rev it more to just go compared to average car. If you will use full rev range in a car it would return just as bad MPG.
MindBlowerWTF why don't cars rev to 14K?
Son of a Zombie Mainly reliability. They get better low end torque, so they can have longer gear ratios compared to motorcycles, so they don't need to rev as high. Most bike with decent maintenance need to have their engine rebuilt at 60-100k miles, as for cars it can vary, but cars that have lower cut-off prove to last longer.
Cars need torque which is found at low to mid range revs, bikes need power because torque would make them do standing wheelies and you get power at high revs
Son of a Zombie A lot of reasons but mostly because of larger displacement used by car engines. It's all about what materials are used and piston speed. The longer the stroke the faster the piston has to travel to cover that distance at any given engine speed. Also the law of physics dictates as things get larger they get weaker pound per pound. A car engine can rev to 10-14k but would need forged internals to cope with the extra stress. A stock piston should never exceed 3500 to 4000 feet per second. a bike's piston speed doesnt approach that until much later due to the really short stroke. A Harley uses a bore and stroke similar to a small block chevy's and therefore has a similar redline.
BS... I have had businesses where I did it for the interest and those where I did it for the money, PEOPLE DON'T CARE!
chopping a r90 classic bloody hipsters!
Ugly custom BMW for money, what a sin
You change a bike and it's still a bike. Give me a break!
***** I don't think the statement was intended to mean that if you change a part on a motorcycle, that it no longer looked like a motorcycle.
But rather, if you change the hood and front fenders of a Mustang, it will still largely be immediately recognizable as a Mustang. If you strip the body panels off of a Kawasaki Ninja, you're probably not going to immediately know what brand of bike it is.
yunclehead What he's really saying is: "guys like Chip Foose don't do shiite because they can't do what we do."
***** Not really
Only 10 secs in and done. what a shame when you let stupid people try to lower a truck. or in this case hiptser's. if they can't set up four leisure wheels how in the fuck are the going to set up two wheels that have much more sophisticated setting