Alchemy Motorcycles

When you're riding there's a lot of freedom. Freedom to me is just being able to do whatever I want and make my own rules. I personally You get home and you'relieved and it feels You kind of just have that relief, that relaxation. My name is Mitchell Bae from Tijuana, Mexico and I own Alchemy Motorcycles. About five years ago I was fired from my job and I kind of didn't know where I was going to go. So I ended up going to nursing school. In those classes I ended up going to an organic chemistry class and I just fell in love with organic chemistry. I chose the name Alchemy Motorcycles because of the Alchemy and the Alchemists. They thought they could take basic metals and convert them into precious metals. So taking steel and al And that's kind of what I wanted to do with the old bikes. I take them when they're pretty raw. Take them completely apart, redo them, nut and bolt job on them. The bikes being reborn that way and being transformed into something more precious. I chose Logan as my location for my shop just because of what's happening around here right now. There's a lot of art, there's a lot of food, the culture, the people in general. There's really down to earth people and I guess the thing that inspires me the most and keeps me going and it's just the need to create something. I've always had that in me. But just when the first time I built a bike and I knew I could build something from scratch from the floor up and envision what it's going to be and then when at the end in a couple of months and it came out exactly how I wanted it to be. It just made sense for me from then on. The process of reviving a bike is very important to me. I love styling from the older bikes. I definitely don't want something to kind of just rot away. To me it's important to be able to preserve those kinds of things. With a motorcycle I can change a lot of things with a smaller budget but still make huge impact on the bike. The first bike I ever used was a bike from the 1966. 1966 CB 160 was my first bike. I figured it was something small that I can kind of cruise around and something that I could make my own and I knew what I wanted to do with it. The process of rebuilding the motorcycles is very rewarding but when I see people's faces when they come to me and they start talking to me about I had a bike And then I also get the younger people that come in and say hey I really love this and I want something beautiful and I want something to style some class from the 1960s and usually those are the great connections that I've made with people that are very satisfactory. you