Hello, My name is
Scott Olewiler. Like a lot of middle aged guys I first got the
custom chopper bug when "American Choppers" went on the air. After watching
that show I bought my first motorcycle, a 2005 Yamaha V-star and immediately
started to add custom bike parts to it. I renamed it the "Fangstar" and was
happy with it for awhile. I also learned to do all my wrenching myself
after the first trip to the "stealer".
After awhile I wasn't getting enough attention
from it, especially riding with Harleys all the time and set out to
customize my motorcycle so that it won't be ignored. I tore that bike
almost down to the frame, fabricated some parts, slapped on a cheesy
raked front end, painted it in my garage with a cheap compressor and a
$10.00 spray gun and turned it into a bike I
now refer to as the "Batbike" that gets looks and comments everywhere I
go. Next my girlfriend wanted her bike custom painted so I bought an
airbrush and learned to paint the Leopard print pattern she wanted on
her gas tank.
Now I'm working on my next project, a 1977
Yamaha XS400 that I hope to be the highest quality XS400 custom
bobber ever built. I'm currently at the "completely tore down to the
frame, about to rebuild the engine and dreading the long rebuild ahead"
phase. I'm hoping this frame off rebuild qualifies me as a builder. My
guess is if you can completely dismantled a bike, rebuild it and ride it
away you're good to go? Next bike will be a "new parts only" build.
All along this
motorcycle journey that started in November 2004 I found
that I really had to search online for sites to either get ideas from or to
find custom motorcycle parts sites, especially for metric bikes. After
riding 10 of thousands of miles over the last 4.5 years I really feel that
motorcycling and custom motorcycles are my true passion. I know in my
short riding career I've already logged more miles than a lot of people
ride their entire lives. And I love working on all my bikes and
customizing them, so why not
build a website devoted to just that.
I figured the web needed a good all in
one site, somewhere you could find other bike builders, find hard to
find motorcycle parts or
place your own ad, thus "Scott's Custom Motorcycles" was born. Some day I
might be selling my own custom motorcycles here, if I can find more
time to work on them, but until then let this be your
portal to all things custom bike related. I truly believe that some day this will
be the number 1 visited motorcycle website in the world, so thanks for
stopping by.
