The Love Ride 21 was a great success held under sunny skies. Southern California was experiencing a fall “Santa Ana” condition where the winds blow in from the desert warming the air temperatures and clearing the sky giving participants spectacular mountain to ocean views all over Southern California. This year Chairman Jay Leno and honorary Chairman Peter Fonda led a cadre of celebrity bikers and over 20,000 participants from Glendale Harley-Davidson to Castaic Lake. When the riders arrived at Castaic, participants enjoyed the catered BBQ lunch and refreshments and were entertained by Lynyrd Skynyrd who played live to the delight of the crowd. [Read more…]

Vengeance Motorcycles was selected by QTM as their 2004 SEMA Show Bike. QTM Inc is the exclusive distributor of Brembo brakes for cruiser motorcycles in North America. Vengeance Motorcycles manufactures high-performance v-twin powered motorcycles that combine traditional hot-rod chopper looks with a modern drive train including an S&S 113ci engine, a 6-speed transmission and 250 series rear tire. The SEMA Show is the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world. As part of AAIW, the SEMA Show attracts more than 100,000 industry leaders from over 100 countries.

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The Vengeance Bone Crusher is a street-legal dragster… with its stretched tank and 280 rear tire the design is long, low, wide and it screams speed. The Bone Crusher comes standard with Drag bars, a long front fender & a rigid drag style rear fender. The frame features 38◦ of rake with a 3″ backbone stretch, 2″ down-tube stretch and a 5◦ triple tree with 4″ over front-end. The 2005 Crusher comes standard with a polished 113Ci engine, a 6-Speed RSD transmission and a massive 280 Series rear tire.

The prototype and build of this bike was documented on film by American Thunder. Check out the V-Tube gallery to see how this beast came to life!

When Michele Smith host of American Thunder visited our factory and saw our bikes she remarked “wow, I’d sure like one of those in my garage.” Well who can resist someone like Michelle? So Butch and the boys got to work on a one-off custom Vendetta just for Michelle.

The bike is a modified 2004 Vendetta with a 42° of rake and 6″ over front-end. Michelle liked the long fenders on our Raiders, so we used Raider sheet metal on the bike to give it that one-of-a-kind look. Pull back risers put the bars in easy reach and the sissy bar with a custom Danny Grey saddle finish the long-low chopper style she was looking for. The dramatic color is Cobalt Blue with chrome paint tribal beveled graphics applied by Rock-n-Roll paint. But the piece-de-la-resistance is the dramatic custom taillight treatment with LED’s by Radiantz illuminating the American Thunder logo on the rear fender. [Read more…]

The Rock-n-Country charity ride from Thousand Oaks to the Tim McGraw / Big & Rich show was a great success with riders from all over the Los Angeles, Riverside & Orange County areas convening in Thousand Oaks. The ride was lead by the Vengeance show rig Nemesis followed by Rick Allen in a new convertible Chevrolet SSR hotrod pick-up truck. Following the lead vehicles was a pack of Vengeance choppers ridden by celebrities including a member of Big & Rich’s band, TV personalities from American Thunder and Vengeance factory staff. The lead-pack was followed by bikes of all makes and models as the ride was open to all riders.

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Rolling Bones is old school chopper built in the classic California kustom kruiser hot-rod style. This bike features a soft-tail Daytec frame with a 2″ backbone stretch, 2″ down-tube stretch and 37 degree rake with a 4″ over retro springer front-end.

The bike includes chubby 18″ ape-hanger handlebars, a Maltese-cross drop mirror, a a classic sporty tank, chrome oil bag, Sampson pipes and a hard-tail style drag fender. The bike is finished in retro flat-black with red & white beatnik style pinstripes. The tank features a custom airbrushed pin-up girl on with a pair of rolling dice on the rear fender.

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Check out our Vendetta featured in V-Twin magazine. “This model combines the sleek styling of a custom chopper with the muscular looks of a pro-street machine.”—Ken Ross V-Twin Magazine.

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