From $4,995 to $49,995…We Have You Covered!

From $4,995 to $49,995, we have you covered…what a great title!  I wish I could say I thought of it, but the credit for this one lies elsewhere.  Take a look at the bikes below, and you’ll see a customized CSC Classic (in the foreground), a stock CSC Greaser (on the right), and Pro-One’s $49,995 Rogue (in the background), all from the same great group of folks here in our La Verne factory.

In prior posts, we mentioned Pro-One Performance Manufacturing, California Scooter’s sister company. Pro-One Performance Manufacturing designs and manufactures high performance V-twin accessories and complete V-twin performance motorcycles.  When Steve Seidner started Pro-One way back in 1989, his concept was to offer big-inch, high-performance motorcycles that made no compromises, and the effort has been a huge success. Pro-One has produced over 1,000 motorcycles since its inception, delivering motorcycles both in the United States and internationally. Production by American workers on these motorcycling masterpieces is continuing even in these tough times.

Pro-One motorcycles represent the ultimate in high end custom bike design and fabrication, and Pro-One was one of the first companies to offer complete, street-legal, high-performance V-twin customs. Pro-One is where CSC’s engineering heritage originates, so I thought a quick peek at the Pro-One bikes might be of interest to our California Scooter blog readers. 

As mentioned above, Pro-One offers a complete line of accessories for Harley-Davidsons and metric V-twins, and the company also offers four complete motorcycles: The Dominator, the Hyper 4, the Rogue, and the Vapor.  These are ultra-sleek custom motorcycles, with 121-cubic-inch, 100-horsepower engines delivering 121-ft-lbs of torque.   Rumor has it that when you crack the throttle on one of these torque monsters it can cause the earth to shift off its axis.  The Rogue and the Vapor have Softail-style rear suspension, and the Dominator and Hyper 4 use a Pro-One-designed 4-link rear suspension based on the approach used by Formula One race cars. The bikes are radically attractive, with incredibly well executed paint, chrome, billet, stainless steel braiding, and the kind of attention to detail you would expect from motorcycles costing as much as $49,995.

Wade is a long-term Pro-One master bike builder; he’s one of the guys who creates these mechanical marvels.  That’s Wade below with a brand new Pro-One Rogue.

Wade is the “go to” guy when it comes to building the Pro-One V-twins, and he’s been with us for nine years.  Wade customizes and services Harley-Davidson motorcycles, too.   He’s an all-around motorcycle maestro, and if you want a bike to sing, he’s the man to see.

Steve Seidner, our company president, has his hands in a lot of things here at California Scooter Company, but the thing he loves doing most is leading the design and production team.  He’s a man who just likes creating and making new bikes.  The good news for us is that the same team that does the Pro-One bikes also does the California Scooter Classic, Greaser, and Babydoll motorcycles.  These CSC motorcycles are literally built by the same people who build Pro-One motorcycles, and the CSC bikes get the same level of attention.

Let’s talk for a moment about how this high-end performance V-twin experience has carried over to the CSC motorcycles.

For starters, the CSC bikes have a near-complete absence of plastic (California Scooters are constructed almost entirely of steel and aluminum, including a steel gas tank and steel fenders).  You don’t see plastic on a $50K custom bike, and you don’t see it on a California Scooter, either.

Every CSC motorcycle makes extensive use of machined billet aluminum parts. These include the disk brake mounts, the rear wheel adjusters, the top and bottom triple fork yokes, the wheel hubs, the speedometer case, and the handlebar risers.  Here are a few photos showing the billet parts.

 

Steve likes chrome, and that’s evident on these little CSC jewels.  The forks, the seat springs, compartment covers, and lots of other pieces stopped at the plater before they came into our factory. 

Nearly everyone who sees these CSC motorcycles comments on the paint, including guys who ride some fairly expensive prestige bikes (BMWs, Triumphs, Harleys…you get the idea).  

Check out the mirror finish on this stock CSC Classic in black, and the chrome on the front end.  That’s a deeply polished black; you could comb your hair in it!   The paint on these bikes is world class.  And the custom bikes, well, keeping reading and we’ll get to them in a bit.

We’ve already mentioned the front and rear custom-designed disk brakes. Steve went first class here, too, incorporating braided stainless steel brake lines (a feature seen on very few factory motorcycles, including the high end marques mentioned above).

So far, we’ve only talked about the stock CSC motorcycles. If you want to create an all-out custom California Scooter, well, we’ve got you covered there, too.  You can take advantage of the talent reservoir this great organization has – the same design talent used on the Pro-One bikes.  Both stock and custom CSC motorcycles receive the same level of craftsmanship (by the same people) as a Pro-One performance V-twin, but there’s something a bit wild about a Mustang-sized motorcycle that’s had the full treatment. 

Here’s one I call the Creamsicle Classic…it’s a customized Classic done in pearlescent white and orange.

The attention lavished on the above bike is nothing short of amazing.  The custom paint is obvious, as is the pipe, the air filter, the seat, and many other items.  It’s the subtle touches that also contribute to the overall effect, like the bared edges on the engine’s cooling fins and the painted white handlebar.  This is a very, very cool bike.

And custom paint?  Well, if you like custom paint, take a look at these photos.  Here’s the tank on the $49,995 Rogue…

And here’s a tighter shot of the custom paint on the Creamsicle Classic…

The Classic, Greaser, and Babydoll motorcycles all have the same manufacturer’s suggested retail price ($4,995).  If you go for an all-out custom bike like the Creamsicle Classic shown above, it’s pretty hard to get these jewels north of, oh, say around $7,800.  A surprisingly high percentage of our customers do exactly that, using the same talent that goes into the big bikes at less than one-sixth the cost.

Like we said, from $4,995 to $49,995, we have you covered…