"The bike is exceptionally made," Reeves said. The swooping gas tank, carved from 534 pounds of billet aluminum and welded together with intricate precision, takes 66 hours to make and could easily pass for a multimillion-dollar Jeff Koons sculpture. As Reeves explained, their motorcycles are more like works of art than modes of transportation - from the hand-stitched leather seats to the gleaming, in-house engine parts that look more like pieces of jewelry. Yet the duo anticipates creating more models in the future. But Reeves insisted they could build something big - and lasting.Īrch produces just one model, the KRGT-1. Do you wanna start a motorcycle company?'"Īt first Hollinger demurred, recalling other fleeting vanity projects by Hollywood celebrities. "And we looked at that bike and was like, 'That's an amazing machine. "Four years, later we had a motorcycle," Reeves said. Hollinger refused to fix the seat, and instead wound up designing Reeves an entirely custom-made motorcycle. In 2006, he brought one of his Harley-Davidson's to Hollinger, an L.A. But he never planned on going into the motorcycle business.
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Reeves has been riding motorcycles since he was 22, and almost always takes two wheels to his movie sets. The connection to the road, to riding, to the environment, to the journey." While the company's unmarked brick factory in an industrial park near Los Angeles International Airport seems a world away from Reeves' Hollywood career, the 51-year-old star of "The Matrix," "Speed" and "Point Break" says motorcycles have long been one of his chief passions.
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