Written by Andrew Jones
What’s better than a movie about motorcycles" If you answered, ?A movie about custom motorcycles,? then you win the internets for today. Luckily for all of us, Englishman Gareth Roberts is way ahead of the curve. He’s been banging away on a rather epic project for the past three years he’s calling ?Oil in the Blood?. And unlike those little YouTube ditties we’re all so used to, this one’s a proper cinema release that’s less MTV music video and more Gone With The Wind. Clocking in at 130 minutes, it feels a lot like this will be the film you’ll show your grandkids in 30 years time while trying to explain what you did with your life. And taking centre stage is Calum Pryce-Tidd from South London’s deBolex Engineering. We spoke to him about his back catalogue, the film and why he built an electric racer.
Excluding all this Hollywood stuff, what’s been happening with deBolex lately"
Prior to building the new bike for the movie, we were just settling into a Kawasaki ZRX1200R project; the Oil in the Blood bike squeezed itself in for seven weeks and now we are playing catch up! The Kawasaki will be the last (for the time being) of our one-on-one projects, as we are preparing a new venture which will enable us to produce motorcycles at a much quicker rate and more competitive cost.
deBolex?s custom Energica Eva that was built for the film
How’d you meet Gareth, the director"
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