For the everyday Joe, sometimes the funds to build a custom comes from a small slip that eventually we all experience. After a minor crash, the owner has a choice to build it back like it came from the factory using all factory parts or take the insurance money and build a new bike. What better way to turn a tragedy into a triumph than by taking your newly crashed cruiser and breathe life back into it, making it better, stronger, faster, and cooler.

Aaron Shapiro only had about 1,000 miles on his 2013 Street Bob when tragedy struck one night on the way to a concert.
He explains: “I bought this bike new from Barger Harley-Davidson and fixed it up with some of the equipment that it has on it now. One night, the homies and me were going to see a concert at the Viper Room in Hollywood, California. We were going to see Manchild, who my buddy Ivory Daniels of Regime Management and Suburban Noize manages. On the way there I crashed in the San Fernando Valley, ending up at the ER. I ended up getting a CAT scan and X-rays. I felt good enough after they discharged me, so I said, ‘F—k it,’ and got in the car and made the show.”

But it would seem that Aaron’s spill wasn’t the only one of the night. “Turns out Gerad “Silent” Poepke, the painter of the bike now, crashed the same night on the way,” Aaron says. “Yeah, there was a lot of crashes that night.”

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