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My name is Dar Holdsworth, I own Darwin Motorcycles and we build uncompromising American Bikes.
We have been selected and volunteered to build the Navy bike, so we are in final assembly
mode. As I mentioned it is a theme bike, but we didn't want to go over the top. The U.S.S
Enterprise, which is on it's final deployment, they've sent us some of the arresting cable
that stops the planes when it comes in and we are using that arresting cable to build
foot pegs for the bike. So it will have a genuine piece of Navy, what would you call
it, I mean its history, it’s not just a part it's history. Navy ships, the planes,
all that stuff has got to be zero compromise and you have to build it absolutely of the
highest standards and quality. So you know, we have to control that and I am sure we control
that by building it here in America with highly skilled, trained American technicians and
so there is a neat correlation I guess between our bikes and the, I never thought of it like
that but the Navy ships, the Navy planes. You know, high quality, uncompromising, American,
built by Americans. I think it's important to pay tribute to our military, this is the
first real tribute bike that we have done, but we have always done a bike to support
the troops and what we have done is we will build a bike and either raffle it off to support
a charity like pros 4 vets, that we support or we'll sell it and proceeds will go to a
charity. We have also worked with the wounded warrior foundation and we have worked with
Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. Each year we do a bike like that. We have a program now
that we call Recycle for the Troops, where we take a vintage bike, completely restore
it and then give it to a soldier. We have already done one of those this year. We've
got three more slated this year. We want to do a bike a quarter that we give to a soldier.
It just so happened that this bike, this opportunity came up for us to work with Rolling Thunder.
You know this the 25th anniversary of Rolling Thunder. For our missing in action personnel
and POW's and so my Dad was a Vietnam vet, my grandfather was a Navy vet from World War
II and of course I am an Air Force Vet, but I thought it would be really important to
find a way to contribute to this. We're just working hard at it to make sure we can bring
the absolute best bike possible to this event. The bike will be unveiled at Rolling Thunder,
but it doesn't stop there it then travels with the wall, as the wall goes from place
to place and so if it can help heal in some way or help make a connection in some way
with our service members, then you know we have done our job.