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my name's Dar Holdsworth . I own Darwin

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motorcycles and we build uncompromising

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american bikes . We have been uh

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selected and volunteered to build the

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navy bike . So we are in

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final assembly mode . As I mentioned ,

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it is a theme bike but we didn't want

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to go over the top the U . S . S .

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Enterprise which is on its final

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deployment . They've sent us some of

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the arresting cable that stops the

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planes when it comes in and we're using

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that arresting cable to build foot pegs

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for the bike . So they don't have a

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genuine piece of navy , what would you

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call it ? I mean it's it's history ,

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it's not just a part , it's history .

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Uh Navy ships , the plains , all that

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stuff has got to be uh zero compromise

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and you have to build it absolutely of

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the highest standards and quality . So

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you know , we have to control that and

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I'm sure we control that by building it

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here in America with highly skilled

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trained american technicians . And so

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there is any correlation between our

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bikes and the uh never

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thought of it like that . But the navy

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ships , the navy planes um , you know ,

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high quality uncompromising american .

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They'll by americans . I think it's

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important to pay tribute to our

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military . This is the first real

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tribute bike that we've done . But

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we've always done a bike to support the

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troops . Uh and what we've done is

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we'll build a bike and either raffle it

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off to support a charity like pros for

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vets that we support or we'll sell it

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uh and proceeds will go to a charity .

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We've also worked with the Wounded

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Warrior Foundation , we've worked with

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Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund each year

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we do a bike like that . Uh , we have a

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program now that we call recycle for

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the troops where we take a vintage bike

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completely restore it and then give it

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to a soldier . We've already done one

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of those this year . We've got three

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more slated . We want to do a bike a

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quarter that we give to a soldier . Uh ,

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it just so happened that this bike , uh ,

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this opportunity came up for us to work

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with Rolling Thunder . You know , this

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is the 25th anniversary of Rolling

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Thunder before are missing in action

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personnel and POWs . And so my dad was

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a Vietnam that my grandfather was a

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Navy vet from World War Two . And of

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course I'm an Air Force vet , but I

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thought I'd be really important to find

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a way to contribute to this . We're

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just working hard at it to make sure

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that we can bring the absolute best

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bike possible to this event . The bike

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will be unveiled at Rolling Thunder ,

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but it doesn't stop there . It then

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travels with the wall as the wall goes

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from place to place . And so if it can

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help heal in some way , um , or help

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make a connection in some way with our

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service members and you know , then

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we've done our job . Yeah