While at last years SEMA show Gabriel and his sons ran across a fellow biker who couldn’t get his Harley started. We just finished it this past week so I’ve taken it out for a test run but it’s a fresh bike.” “Practically everything on this bike was made right here in this shop, and I converted it into a hardtail.
After I install a custom part or build a bike I’ll road test the bike and make sure that it’s safe to ride,” said Gabriel. “Safety is always the number one concern whenever I come up with a custom design. Since then degrees from HCC and UH along with being a certified welder and an ASE certified technician gives his customers and clients confidence when they ride an Ivan’s Psycles creation. The hands on experience Gabriel has goes back to his days as a kid when his grandfather taught him the old school ways of building bikes. But for Gabriel and his crew everything they saw on TV wasn’t anything they haven’t already done. TV shows like American Chopper and Monster Garage made bike building popular and owning a custom bike cool. I don’t care too much for the pro street either. I don’t care too much for the big wheel designs. There was two previous designs that I scrapped before coming up with this banana girder design,” said Ivan Gabriel owner of Ivan’s Psycles and Repairs. “I decided to build a girder front end for this bike. The neck was still good, and that’s where the magic began. The front end was tossed in the dumpster, and most of the frame was cut away. Sitting outside behind the house for years because other bike building projects took priority, the elements eventually took its toll on the frame. Two years ago this 1972 Harley-Davidson Shovelhead was so rotten with rust that it would fall apart if it were ridden.
WHEELS: 2007 Harley-Davidson Soft Tail rims Front 21X3 Rear 16X5.5 Avon Tires Gangster Whitewall SUSPENSION: Ivan Psycles Custom Design Hardtail FRONT END: Ivan Psycles custom built Banana Girder with Swinger shock
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