Tuesday 25 March 2014

FTWCo Visit

Last month I visited the Mid-West to go to the Mama Tried Show and took the opportunity to detour the six-hour drive to Des Moines, Iowa, for a flying visit to the new headquarters of FTWCo. I'd been to the old HQ a couple of years ago (on a cross-country ride). I arrived at 10.30pm and stayed talking till 3am with the two owners of FTWCo: Brad (aka Fatty. Red shirt) and Jeff Wright (the man behind Church of Choppers) plus the photographer and film-maker, Michael Schmidt (green shirt) who I was working with.
Their unit is an Aladdin's cave of creativity and good stuff.
Jeff's One Shot collection.
The back of the headquarters is for bike-building. The front is the admin and T-shirt printing. Jeff does 90% of the art. Brad runs the business side of things. 
Jeff's Honda CB1100EX. Hyperpro shocks; Over Engineering swingarm; RCD-Tec fuel filler; Yoshimura exhaust; hand painted tank logos. It had 2 miles - TWO MILES - on the clock, when I took this photo.
 Brad's ironhead Sportster street tracker.
 Jeff's slabside GSX-R project.
 Road-going dune buggy with a keg fuel tank.
Up for 30 hours or more and still laughing. I love FTWCo.

2 comments:

Marcus @ MarcusMotoDesign said...

Must have been awesome!

Gary, come back to Sweden soon!

Cheers,

WhitelinePsycho said...

Enormous respect for the entire COC/FTWCO gig, and what they give back into the collective two wheeled caper . . . ah, one day.