ABOUT SEYMOUR CYCLE WORKS
SEYMOUR CYCLE WORKS IS A VINTAGE MOTORBIKE COMPANY THAT SPECIALIZES IN BOARD TRACK RACERS POPULARIZED BY HARLEY-DAVIDSON AND INDIAN IN THE EARLY 1900S. FOR A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SPORT, PLEASE VISIT WWW.MOTORDROMERACING.COM/THE-MURDERDROME/
Our mission is to bring to life the rich history of early motorcycles by providing quality, hand-crafted, vintage motorbikes to our customers.
Keith Seymour, Owner & Craftsman
I grew up with a warm affection towards anything and everything with wheels. From an early age, cruising the streets of my small hometown with my bicycle was a way of life. My friends and I would pass time by earning gnarly gashes and bruises from jumping our bikes on ever-growing plywood and dirt ramps. The pure mechanics of a bike made it easy to fix with our limited tools and abilities but we soon gained our experience with grease under our nails. The thrill of speed and danger fueled our adventurous minds to push the envelope further and further. My first real job was even at a local bike shop assembling bikes so I could blow my paycheck on more bike parts to use in that weekend's BMX race.
Over the years, that same passion and fervor for speed turned to cars and making them go faster. I worked at an auto shop and was submerged in car culture for nearly seven years while I finished high school and college and then married my high school sweetheart, Caroline. She used to joke that I married her because the first three letters of her name spelled c-a-r. Like most reasonable men, blowing money and time on modifying cars didn’t seem as much of a priority once married so I quickly parted ways with my fast and loud hobbies.
I spent the next several years anticipating the opportunity to bring back the adventure of wrenching and riding until I was introduced to Board Track Racing through an online article I stumbled across. I poured over the rich history of the early motorcycle and became a student of the simpler mechanics and clean lines of these beauties. The early motorcycles were, put simply, a bicycle with a motor jammed into it. When I started reading more about the ingenuity, hunger for speed, and the no-excuse-type-of-wrenching that I experienced growing up, I was inspired to build my first Board Track Racer tribute bike. The early Board Track Racing guys didn’t ride with brakes, had no throttle, and would race on embankments of 60 degrees to catapult them into the straightaways. These men were dangerous thrill seekers with an addiction to speed. Although Board Track Racing was short-lived because of its many dangers, these men left everything on the track and paved the way to modern racing with their oil stained faces and foot-long splinters. The bikes I build stand as tributes to the early days of motorcycling and the men who rode them.
What People Say
Professional, talented artist with an eye for every last detail. Couldn't be happier with the product and customer service we received from Keith at Seymour Cycle Works! We will ABSOLUTELY be using SCW for our next vintage motorbike build!
– Tony, Anthony & Mark DeRosa, Shears & Gears Barbershop
SERVICES
Looking for a hand-crafted Quality Motorbike?
Depending on your goals, budget, and needs, we will consult with you to build your dream bike.
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
– Peter Drucker
We offer fully functional, built-to-order four stroke (regular gas) or two stroke (mixed gas) powered tribute motorbikes using a combination of new and vintage parts. Most of the board track racers we sell can be used as display pieces in dealerships, man caves, private collections etc., but they are perfect for people who just enjoy riding as well.
We're capable of building a vintage style motorbike that looks like it rolled off the showroom floor as well as a brand new bike adorned with that 100 year old patina, "barn find" look.
PORTFOLIO
Here at Seymour Cycle Works, we pride ourselves in building unique bikes that have personal touches. We provide attention to detail with hand-crafted quality that your children will fight over when you're gone. Here are some photos of our work. Contact us today to build your dream, one-off bike.
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CONTACT
Phone
(703) 895-4015