Finally: The definitive movie about the custom moto scene
We?re surprised it?s taken so long. The ?alt moto? movement has been on fire for at least a decade, but it?s never made the jump onto the big screen.
Oil In The Blood is the first film to catalog the builders, riders and artists who are driving the scene forward. It?s directed by Gareth Maxwell Roberts, a founding member of the Bike Shed club in London and the possessor of an unfeasibly large Rolodex.
Gareth knows everybody in the business?and the cast list feels like a Who?s Who of the 21st century custom world.
The film includes many of today’s top builders, such as Ian Barry of Falcon, Max Hazan, Craig Rodsmith, Walt Siegl, Shinya Kimura, and Winston Yeh of Rough Crafts. Plus designers like Ola Stenegärd of Indian and Kurt Walter of Icon Motosports, and commentators like Paul ?The Vintagent? d’Orléans and yours truly.
On a personal note: I?ve been following the progress of Oil In The Blood for three years now. While I was on a trip to England for the Triumph Bonneville launch, Gareth coerced me into an interview lasting several hours.
It was in the cozy, atmospheric Super Brick workshop, in a courtyard just off Brick Lane in East London. And last year, during yet another trip to the mother country, we covered even more ground in a second interview.
So now it?s time to flip the tables and fire some questions back at Gareth Roberts himself (above). We grabbed him few hours after the film premiered at The One Moto Show in Portland.
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