Make's Extended Profile

Make's Extended Profile

MAKE´S Kustom Cycle PROFILE

Name: Mike 'MAKE' Brittan (Father British National, Mother, Mexican National) Born in

LA 1973.

Location: Worldwide, currently in Barcelona, Spain Feb 2014

Been in the scene since: 2002 (Oxford, England PACIFIC COAST CHOPPERS, Founder)

Club Affiliation: Chopaderos (Founding President, Spanish Chapter)

member since: 2006

Other bike affiliations: Bicischopper.com Spain (founding member), Worldwide

Kustom Cycle Coopertive (founding member), Welding Cafe' (founder) , Worldwide

Kustom builders Cooperative since Dec. 2013 (founder) also associated with over 100

Facebook Kustom Cycle group pages.

International Custom bike events attended: FBI/Chopaderos Amsterdam 2005,

2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Chopaderos California Dreamin Cruise 2009, Hells on

Wheels Barcleona, Spain Oct.2010,2011, 2012, 2013 Chopaderos Wanna be in the DAM

cruise Dec. 2010, Chopaderos DFCH Melbourne, Florida Feb. 2011

Builder Profile: Been building bikes since: 2004

Previous building experience: Hot Rods and Race Cars 89'-99

Skills: Metal Fabrication, Bike building, design, WELDING (TIG, MIG, ARC, GAS) , basic

machinihng, cycle mechanics, some carpentry and upholstery work, paint and finish

work, Fiberglass and composite work, metal sculpture, 'Chop-art' and creative problem

solving and also recents skills in Solar power technology and off grid resourcing.

Kind of cycles make works on : Choppers, cruisers, kustoms, multi-wheeled cycles,

commercial cycles, eg. Bar bike, BBQ bike, sound system, rickshaw, cargo and themed

cycles.

Some Things Make would trade for his work: Cash, building

material, bikes, bike parts, travel, accomadation, sponsorship, trike parts,

hot rod stuff, other builder's work I like.

CONTACT INFO: email: mikejbritan@aol.com

Facebook: Mike Brittan

Skype: MakeBCN

Phone number: by request only

Website: N/A

Languages that you can contact MAKE: English, Spanish, Chinese (Yes,

Really!) and google translator

MAKES PERSONAL BIO INFO.docx.pdf

SOME EXAMPLES OF MAKE’s WORK:

THE BEAST

2006 World Championship Winner

Amsterdam

This BEAST was originally built in England in 2005 as a 8-day bike building challenge

that I sponsored and invited one of the most talented local English builders (Chunky) to

design, build and ride in 8 days. We spent the whole first day designing and 7 days

building until we had a roller. It was then our base for our finish that was later

completed in Barcelona, Spain in 2006 which you see now. There was no spare

expense , just the paint job alone was billed at over 2,500 euros with the custom Rick's

wheels from Germany valued over 2,000 euros. with over 150 hours of work in the

frame alone. All the work paid off as it later on went on to win the World Kustom Bike

Championship in 2006 competing amongst some of the most well known names in the

kustom bike world.

SCORPIA

2009 -

Amsterdam

The Scorpia,(3.5meter long and wider than our door) built in Barcelona 2009 in our tiny

30sq/m beach side workshop where we rented stretch dyno type bikes to tourists. The

rear half of the trike was the base of a previous build (drag bike 2004). Is was then

extended to include two front wheels. The steering was an experimental remote steer

cable system that used air pistons in the handlebars to control the bike, with a push and

pull... The paintjob was a mixture of transparent colors and trick air brushing that was

only visible under light and flash, like scorpians which illuminate under black light.

Another interesting feature included a live scorpian cage located under the seat. 2

Scorpians traveled with us all the way to Amsterdam and were involved in a couple of

50km cruises.

MOLLY

2007

THE BBQ BIKE

Molly, born from our lifestyle love for bbq's on the beaches of BCN. The grill was built

right into the trike base and only needed us to remove the wheels and make a hole in

the sand. Also, it was our cargo bike and carried all our party supplies. Molly was

probably our most ridden/used bike in the shop. Everyone has a story with Molly, haha...

MOJITO BAR BIKE

2009

BARCELONA

The Mojito Bar trike,

BEER BAR Bike

Barcelona 2010

(aka Bar-beer-a, pronounced Barbara) . This Trike was built in Collaboration

with Metal & Ink in " in 2009. It functioned as a portable beer stand. It could

carry 100 litters of beer . It was rarely used as an actual beer stand but more

of a portable bar where most people just perched up on our bar. It came with

a full sound system and was also possible to serve other riders while moving,

(though not recommended).

DIABLO side car project

2010 Barcelona

Diablo, side-car project, was built to carry our lazy-ass dog.

WILDEST NEW PROJECT.... 7 WHEEL TRIKE, Amsterdam, Holland 2011

The BM-7 project, was a wild collaboration project with Rhalf Van Heudsen of the

Chopperdome as a special DOME Project in 2012. The base is a modified Basman frame,

shortened and welded to an experimental rear differential unit. It contained 7 wheels in total.

It was an experiment of the kustom wheel possibilities. It is still unfinished, though, initial

results have proved promising.

Kustom Cycle and other kustom

projects :

36" stretch cruise next to customized 26" PG low glide

VANISHED .... Polycarbonate project with single tube design frame. Internal steering unit and custom machined single sided hubs with machined bolt cover.

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Molly BBQ trike

Wagon Trike

Portable Art Stand – LA 2011

Hot rod Radio Flyer next to my 27' Ford Roadster in LA.

Air Ride Trike

Experimental 4-wheel Project, The Dome, Holland 2011

Latest Project 2014 --- Solar Rickshaw