Written by Martin Hodgson
Telling someone ‘it can’t be done’ has proven to be one of history’s great motivators; Einstein and Edison were considered too dumb by their teachers to amount to anything, billionaire vacuum cleaner mogul Sir James Dyson couldn’t get a single company to look at his designs and Stephen Spielberg was rejected from film school, TWICE! So when Ryan Maloney was told by everyone that building a Grand National Flat Track bike for the street was ridiculous, it only lit a fire inside him to prove the world wrong. Named for the very thing it gives its doubters, this custom framed Kawasaki Flat Tracker is winning trophies, tearing up the streets and causing many a ‘Nightmare’!

During the day Ryan works as an HVAC technician but when work is over for others, the lights go on in his basement and he turns his talent to bike building. ?My whole family races flat track it?s definitely in our blood. I’ve been racing since I was young from dirt track to drag racing cars, I?m obsessed with going fast,? he told us. His sons have inherited the gasoline gene with his four year old removing the training wheels to rip it up on a PW50. For his next build, Ryan was kicking around an idea, ?about how cool it would be to have a Grand National bike for the street and that started the negativity from everyone saying it would be horrible to ride, it won?t work blah blah blah.?
But rather than back down and definitely not about ...