![]() The two-section gas tank alone requires 60 hours of work to turn from 600 pounds of solid aluminum into the sinuously-curved 21-pound final product. Each bike requires hundreds of hours of labor. The engine - a 120-cubic-inch V-twin producing 121 horsepower and 121 pound-feet of torque - roars like an untamed beast.īut this beast is a beauty, a hand-crafted, 538-pound piece of motorcycle art. Blacked-out rims, cylinder heads and fork tubes are stark against the bright chrome and polished aluminum of the gas tank, exhaust pipes and upswept muffler. Now completed and undergoing the testing required to pass emissions and noise standards, the KRGT-1 looks like a rough-hewn road warrior. “It had to go into extreme lean angles and really take care of you,” Reeves said. “We didn’t want a bike that would just look pretty sitting in your living room,” Hollinger said. Once the design was underway, the two men were in agreement about what the KRGT-1 would be and do. Hollinger couldn’t see it, and found reasons to dismiss the idea.įinally, Reeves told him: “I want you to stop telling me why we can’t do this, and start telling me how we can.’ ” The KRGT-1 started as a one-off custom bike for Reeves, but as it became a reality, the actor started talking about making more of them. Over the years, he acquired more bikes - sometimes buying them for the duration of a movie shoot, and selling them when the production wrapped - owning MotoGuzzis, Suzukis, and Harleys. When he returned to Los Angeles, he bought a classic Norton Commando. ![]() The bike was stolen, but the hook was set. When he was 22, he bought a Kawasaki KLR600 while working on a movie in Germany. Reeves came to motorcycles later in life. He worked in a boatyard in the San Juan Islands, owned a motorcycle shop in Seattle, and built choppers and bobbers as a “fabricator for hire” and then at his own Ziggy Harly Custom Motorcycles in Canoga Park. Hollinger was a lifelong rider, mechanic and designer, having started racing dirt bikes as a kid growing up in Los Angeles.
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