Dynamic Choppers SD 300 Chopper - For Freddy

In 2001, Mike Cotia of New York and his family were struck by a monumental tragedy when his brother and longtime riding buddy Freddy was murdered. Freddy was only 21 years old and at 6 foot 5 inches, 270 pounds, he was larger than life with a heart to match. Sadly, his murder is still unsolved.

The family's grief was tremendous and his death was a total surprise. Although they couldn't bring him back, no one was ready to let him go, which is why Mike decided to have a bike built as a memorial to his fallen brother. That way he could take Freddy's memory and spirit on the road with him.

His path to Freddy's memorial brought him to Daytona where he stopped by Redneck Enginuity's booth and found the perfect frame for the project, the SD 300 - just the sort of wide tire chassis Freddy loved. The folks at the display directed him to Dynamic Choppers in Las Vegas, Nevada, who happened to have an SD 300 in the shop.

Phone calls and emails flowed back and forth between Mike and Dynamic's Paul Stewart. In the end it was decided that Mike wanted a bike that resembled Freddy's memory: big with a big heart and totally unique. Paul came through in spades.

Since Mike had already settled on a chassis, it became a matter of modding the frame to make the lines stand out. Dynamic raked it 48 degrees and stretched it 6 inches up and out in such way as to make it curve elegantly over the space for the motor, then mated a long Redneck Springer frontend to it. The end result was a long, sleek profile that did justice to Freddy's 6-foot, 5-inch frame.

Now came time for the heart. Paul used a 113-inch TP mill with a D&M vertical spike air cleaner and Boa exhaust that not only provides plenty power but looks great doing it. But the greatest innovation for the shop was the prototype Roadmax LSD transmission that accommodates the bike's Avon 300 with only 1-1/2 inches of offset, the same offset used with 250 tires.

The transmission wasn't the only unique aspect of the bike, however. A lot of thought and hard work went into making the rolling artwork, and more than a little of that effort went into the tank and rear fender. When you look at the skin on this machine, what you see are a clean rear fender and a very unique gas tank. What you don't see is an oil tank and that's because the lower part of the rear fender pulls double duty as an oil bag. Dynamic made the bike even cleaner by routing the cables internally.

Once the mock up was done, Joel Stevenson at Ten Ten Custom Paint was called in to shoot down pigment, and nothing but Freddy's favorite, black and silver marble with scalloped accents, would do. The final touch was the epitaph painted into the rear fender that tells viewers that this beautiful chopper was born from an ugly tragedy. When Mike got the bike he was extremely pleased with the results. He even had a specially painted helmet made to go with it that reads, "Until we ride again."