Nate Bawden's Two Face Bike

"It started as a thought about building a set of bikes called "Villian bikes" and the two best villians of all times are Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey as Two Face and The Riddler. The bike is almost 11ft long. I started by making the frame square on the left side -the entire frame, then I made a gas tank that is square and round, split down the middle yet fully functional. The forks are 63mm inverted and squared on the left and balanced to ride flawlessly down the road, even the top of the triple trees (where the handle bars hook on) I milled square on one side and kept round on the other, even the left hand grip, brake lever, and mirror are square. I had rims custom made to resemble Batmans throwing star, then had them custom colored then air brushed to look like Tommy Lee Jones/Two Face fur lined jacket that he wore, then on the middle of the tank and front left fork, the paint splits and fake fur comes out that is  a different texture. On the right side it is all round like a normal bike should be, because that is Tommy Lee Jones/Two Face normal side. I made the exhaust roll to the front of the bike not the back, the kick stand is on the right side not the regular left side. It is a fully functional bike that I ride as much as possible. I have sent pics to chopper magazines and have had them call me back rejecting me because they like the bike and say it is different but they could not publish a bike in their magazine that was painted pink, (it didnt represent true chopper builders in their words) but my idea of a chopper was an individual expression of the builder to be different from other bikes but they didnt agree I guess! I live about 30 min from the Sundance Festival, and Tommy Lee Jones was there last year I was told so I took the bike in a trailer there to see if I could get him to autograph it but I had no luck."

Nathan Bawden, January 2008

Debbie Ironmonger 2008

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