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HMC Choppers
These chopper bikes were made by Preston Harris, 22, of Mena, Arkansas. He is legally blind.
The bikes are unique, custom styles, featuring movable wheels, steering and folding kickstands. Feel free to look, touch and explore.
How They Are Made and the Inspiration Behind It
These bikes were made from a variety of different clays, toothpicks, cardboard, tinfoil tape, wires; craft gem stones, straws, and both liquid and solid electrical tape. Most of the attachments were made simply just by using tin foil tape. There was actually a very small usage of modeling glue used in the entire process.
What led me to making such nice bikes was that they had all kinds of unique paint jobs and styles similar to fancy cars and they were also just as cool too. They also bring back a lot of early childhood memories of when I saw my Grandpa and his body shop showroom full of cool mini choppers, go karts, trikes, ATVs and other rides that he had. It’s also easier for me to have and enjoy bikes more than cars because; although I can’t drive a car I can still enjoy driving really cool bicycles.
Another thing that led me to making these bikes was my dad. He was the one who originally got me into doing models. We would also go for drives and listen to great music in his nice cars that he had too. I started out doing model cars for a while. Then when I became skilled enough after a while, I started making my own custom bike models.