M~2TVextreme.com Interview w/ Azzkikr founder: Mr. Len Edmondson
On the 34th Annual Vancouver Toy Run: October 7th 2012. This interview took place on Friday, October 12th… a very busy week for ACC. It was hard to pin Len down for this interview… Thanks Len for your time.
As some of you [viewers/patrons] of M~2TVextreme.com know, we posted that Azzkikr Customs Cycles was participating in this year’s Charity Ride and that they had also organized their own meet at their home base on the Fraser Hwy, in Langley BC.
We’re back! And as we promised you, an interview with one of the owners of ACC: Azzkikr Custom Cycles. On the phone today [Fri 12th Oct] we spoke to Len Edmondson about his participation in the 34th Annual Toy Run, which occurred Thanksgiving Sunday (Oct 7th).
It was great to finally get in touch with Len as he’s always on the go, a man on a mission, to bring ACC [Azzkikr Custom Cycles] to the next level. We briefly touched on ACC’s goals, what ACC will be producing, and where you will see them in the future.
This is the point where we start the interview with Mr. Edmondson… Azzkikr Custom Cycles has been an avid participant in the Toy Run for the past 8 years. This year they started out with 32 bikers who joined them by invitation only. Note that about half a dozen of them were new riders. The bikes ACC used were their own – you can see similar motorcycles on display in their shop.
The riders set out from Langley at about 10 am to meet up with the starting point of the Toy Run in Coquitlam and then continued on, meandering through streets and by-ways to Vancouver , to the site of the PNE: Pacific National Exhibition. Joining up with approximately 7,000 more riders on this route, is a great way to showcase what Azzkikr Custom Bikes can do on the road. While at the PNE Azzkikr showcased their custom bikes and baggers before they took the long ride back home to Langley.
The Toy Run Len’s started is a good course, but rather a short ride, lasting only approximately one hour. Not as much scenery as other rides he’s been on, but, it is for a good cause and he is willing to participate, weather permitting , each year on future runs. Another ride ACC was involved with is the Musicians for Therapy Ride, [http://musictherapyride.org ]which occurred on September 8th. This ride takes you from Fraser Downs Raceway in Cansino Vancouver, down to Hwy 7 East, passing through Abbotsford and up to Chilliwack, ending at the The Harrison Hot Springs Resort ‘s Lakeside Café. Len went on to say that he would like ACC to have their own run in future and is working closely with the organizers of the Music Therapy Ride Organization.
Here is a little history about the conception of Azzkikr Custom Cycles. The founder hails from Winnipeg, AB. At the tender age of 16 he started out building and refurbishing cars. It turned out he couldn’t afford the cost of completing the car he wanted to build so he traded it in for a motorcycle. His first bike was Norton 750 Commando [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commando] and he later graduated to the FXR – HD model, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson_Super_Glide]. He continued to build, using Harley Davidson manufactured parts.
Later on, after starting a family and his own business, Flynn Canada Limited (a construction company), http://www.flynn.ca/Index.aspx, Len moved to Alberta, continued to build cars and bikes: even having his family join in on projects. Not long after, the family made another move to [BC] British Columbia in 2000, and in 2006 {partnering with his son Gord} Azzkikr Customs Cycles, builders of cars and bikes was born. http://azzkikr.ca/. Since then ACC has fabricated, modified, and produced over a hundred cars and bikes. Most of their sales go to “out of province” or “out of country” customers. Recently ACC has been developping its own ‘Deluxe Specialty Baggers’, using primarily HD[Harley Davidson] parts and frames. You can read up on ACC Baggers as featured in the October 23rd article in the Urban Bagger Magazine. Or check out http://www.urbanbagger.com/ and future articles in the American Bagger Magazine or http://www.americanbagger.com/
The future for Azzkikr Customs Cycles is manufacturing its own Brand of motorcycles from start to finish. Their goal is to make their name in the industry as true custom motorcyle builders.
We at M~2TVextreme are avid fans of Azzkikr Custom Cycles and can’t wait to see more of their products or what we like to call ‘Art on 2-Wheels’, the world of custom motorcycles.
Thank you, Len Edmondson, for the interview and Gord Edmondson for the pictures and T’s. Continued success to Azzkikr Custom Cycles.
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