Time Flies

I have always loved the look of old Schwinn bicycles. For years I had hoped to someday build a motorcycle with the same lines, but time, money and opportunity never presented themselves. One day while looking around online, I stumbled across a picture of an XS650 that had clearly been built with that same Schwinn inspiration. The photo had no information about the bike or the builder. I saved the picture as the background on my laptop. Almost a year later I came across a bike building blog that had an XS400 like mine so I started reading through. It was a cool young dude from Portland just doing his thing. As I got closer to the beginning of the blog I saw the Schwinn bike that had been on my laptop for so long. This same guy, Jared Johnson of Holiday Customs, had built that sweet bike I had been drooling over. We went back and forth over some emails. The guy is one cool ass dude. I have been following his work ever since. His first bike turned out even better than what I had imagined building. He has built two more like it since and I never get tired of looking at them. I saw on his blog the other day that it had been three years already since he built that first bike. Man, time flies. Keep up the good work Jared!

Check out the Holiday Customs blog at www.holidaycustoms.blogspot.com