HAWAII X DESTROY: February 2015

This years Born Free 5 was my first regarding motorcycle shows. It's basically an invite of select influential bike builders from around the world. It seemed more like a motorcycle apparel and accessories tradeshow with the bike show itself as a side note. There was live music, food vendors, and a bunch of vendor booths throughout the show. It took us about 3 hours to get into the show because the traffic was so bad. There were hundreds of hipster motorcycle riders passing us by as we sat still in traffic. We even saw a guy who parked his truck on the side of the road and had his his full drum set out while he played for everyone in traffic! Once we finally parked and started making our way into the show all you could see was a sea of people and vendor tents. It was crazy hot and super dusty. We pretty much made our way to The Speed Merchant and Brawny Built tent and remained there for the entire show. We wasted no time in firing up the grill and getting down to business. Wanted to make sure that all the hungry people in Brawny's crew got to sample some SXA BBQ and were stoked. Quite a few of the people in our area were from Hawaii some who moved to the mainland and some who flew in for the show. We had our own little Hawaii community going on! Oblow and Kingman were hanging out with the crew. A bunch of rad people came through our village including veteran skateboard legends Steve Olson and Jason Jessee. Len from Onimotorworks had Jensen and Buddah fly in from Hawaii to help finish off his build. Jeff Goo drove down from Las Vegas. Even my homie Kaboe who used to live in Hawaii for a number of years came to hangout. Met a bunch of rad people, drank a bunch of beer, and almost had a heat stroke. Most importantly we got to be there to support Brawny and Len and have a good time doing it!

Brawny's build for this years BF5 won "Best in Competition". Congrats Brawny! Fresh off our flight from Hawaii we grabbed a few drinks and went straight to the Brawny Built shop only to find that he and his boys were hard at work trying to wrap things up in order to get this bike to the show by 12pm the next day. The motor came all the way from Marco's shop (Mach Modified) in New York were it was hopped up and sent back to Long Beach just in time for the show!

Len Higa of Onimotorworks BF5 Build. This bike came out sick! According to Jensen of HRDLCK they had a couple of sleepless nights fueled by beer working on this one!