Arch Motorcycle

Arch Motorcycle Company, LLC is a high-end custom American motorcycle manufacturer founded by Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger in 2011.[1][2]

Arch Motorcycle
Founded2011 (2011)
FounderKeanu Reeves
Gard Hollinger
HeadquartersHawthorne, California,
U.S.
Key people
Keanu Reeves
Gard Hollinger
ProductsMotorcycles
Websitewww.archmotorcycle.com

History

In 2007 Keanu Reeves, well known for his passion for motorcycles, met custom bike builder Gard Hollinger. Their mutual understanding would eventually lead to the two forming the Arch Motorcycle Company.[1] Reeves employed Hollinger to customize a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, over five years of design and testing Reeves' motorcycle only retained the Harley Davidson engine. Reeves liked the finished product's handling and character so much, he suggested he and Hollinger start a motorcycle company making the motorcycle.[3] Initially, Hollinger refused - at the time he owned his own motorcycle customization business and was not looking to take the significant step of producing an entire motorcycle and its constituent parts from scratch.[2] According to the pair, Hollinger was eventually convinced by Reeves' persistence and argument that they could produce something great to leave behind as a legacy.[4][5]

The modified Harley-Davidson motorcycle was the inspiration for the prototype Arch motorcycle which eventually led to the company's first production bike, the KRGT-1. The KRGT-1 launched in September 2014 was designed and built using the lessons learned from the initial customization of Reeves' Harley Davidson and Hollinger's extensive experience in commercial motorcycle customization.[2][6]

Models

As of November 2017 Arch have produced three models, which are later customized to customers individual specifications: KRGT-1, 1s and Method 143.[6] Each model is described as an "American performance cruiser" - according to Reeves and Hollinger, a motorcycle created in the typical American motorcycle style with the comfort and range of a cruiser but closer in performance to a sports bike.[2]

The 1s and Method 143 take a sportier, more aggressive, riding position and design. The Method 143 is described as a "concept", as such it has an unusual and striking appearance, much like concept automobiles.[2][3]

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gollark: There are lots of *imaginable* and *claimed* gods, so I'm saying "gods".
gollark: So basically, the "god must exist because the universe is complex" thing ignores the fact that it... isn't really... and that gods would be pretty complex too, and does not answer any questions usefully because it just pushes off the question of why things exist to why *god* exists.
gollark: To randomly interject very late, I don't agree with your reasoning here. As far as physicists can tell, while pretty complex and hard for humans to understand, relative to some other things the universe runs on simple rules - you can probably describe the way it works in maybe a book's worth of material assuming quite a lot of mathematical background. Which is less than you might need for, say, a particularly complex modern computer system. You know what else is quite complex? Gods. They are generally portrayed as acting fairly similarly to humans (humans like modelling other things as basically-humans and writing human-centric stories), and even apart from that are clearly meant to be intelligent agents of some kind. Both of those are complicated - the human genome is something like 6GB, a good deal of which probably codes for brain things. As for other intelligent things, despite having tons of data once trained, modern machine learning things are admittedly not very complex to *describe*, but nobody knows what an architecture for general intelligence would look like.

References
  1. The story of Arch Motorcycle
  2. Jay Leno's Garage (2017-04-03), 2017 ARCH KRGT-1- Jay Leno's Garage, retrieved 2019-05-19
  3. GQ (2019-04-15), Keanu Reeves Shows Us His Most Prized Motorcycles | Collected | GQ, retrieved 2019-05-19
  4. "The story of Arch Motorcycle". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  5. Gushue, Ted (2016-09-22). "Why Keanu Reeves Had To Convince Gard Hollinger To Start Arch Motorcycles". Petrolicious. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  6. Stewart, Jack (2017-11-08). "Keanu Reeves' Latest Excellent Adventure: Creating Fancy Motorcycles". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
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