And End for All Things

Well, after only a year of being in business, Quickturn Cycles is being forced to close its doors this week. It's been really fun, but the powers that be say that we can't have our shop anymore.

If we can find another location to call home that will put up with our irregular hours, loud music, and funny smells, maybe this all won't be for naught.

I'm really disappointed in this outcome, but we'll see if I can finish up the project bike I've been working on.

The Consuela

In addition to having a part-time job on the regular, I am also apprenticing at a motorcycle shop, experimenting with bodywork, design, and painting techniques.


My current project is redoing the body work for a former race bike. I'm picking up where someone left off, evidently, and I've been spending many days sanding, prepping, & painting this motorcycle to salvage the botched paint job the last guy left.


The motorcycle itself is a 1993 Honda CBR900RR, and the owner asked me to design an eye-catching graphic to really bring out the spirit of the bike. Here's what I was able to come up with. The motorcycle itself is about 80% complete with the basecoat all laid down. We are waiting on more paint to start work on the graphic. You can see on the tail section a mascot girl for the shop and, lord willing, the eventual race team. Hence the name, Consuela.