Everyone kept Mark P busy, and they were able to get the bike done. It had the retro look that he was looking for, but worked even better than he had ever imagined. The bars were custom cut to match the length of Mark's arms. The foot controls, exhaust, and just about everything they could have put together themselves were made in the CEC shop. Hand crafted one-off parts are used when possible, and Mark Siddle and the folks at CEC take pride in being able to do that for their customers. In fact, CEC has only made one spec bike. They don't have time for that when they are putting their souls into their custom builds. The heavy flake tangerine color made Mark Pomirko's bike the "bad ass" that it is. The bike doesn't have any graphics on it; as the folks at CEC put it, "The bike is the graphics."
After it was all said and done, was Mark P happy with his bike? Just like the guy in the "Hair Club For Men" commercials, not only was he a customer, now he was an employee. If that's not one hell of an endorsement, I don't know what is. Mark P takes care of the sales and marketing for CEC and spends a lot of time "preaching the internal way" to people such as the Harley loyalists.
The legend of Bad Ass Tangerine is growing. It placed in the top ten bikes "Over One Thousand Super Radical Class" at the Rat's Hole Show during Daytona Bike Week, and Mark spends a lot of time at gas stations letting people take photos of his one of a kind ride. In fact, sometimes it gets so bad, Mark has to just take a gas can down to the station to get gas for Bad Ass Tangerine, or else he could be there all day.