Many thanks to Karina Lintu for finding and posting the link on twitter.
Last October (2011) Keanu Reeves appeared on a new motorcycle. At the time it was speculated among fans that the bike was a custom built. The bike, which turns out to be the first Arch Sport Crusier, was built by Gard Hollinger of LA ChopRods for Keanu. The bike took five years to build and was a collaborative effort between the two men.
During the course of building the bike, both Keanu and Gard traveled to the Netherlands to meet with Mark Van der Kwaak to discuss the tank and tail section. Back in spring of 2010, Keanu made a trip to the Netherlands and was seen with a gentleman coming out of a hotel in Amsterdam. At the time the mystery gentleman generated a lot of discussion among fans who speculated that it was either an investor or a director for a possible Company Film project. As it turns out, the gentleman in the photo appears to be Gard Hollinger – another mystery solved.
“We just kind of got carried away by what the bike did to us,” Keanu remembers. “We both were looking at the bike, and to me, well, I just loved looking at it. All the different lines and angles on it and the materials and the surfaces, it’s just aesthetically beautiful.”
Keanu put the bike through it’s paces saying:
“Once I rode it—the way she sounds and the way she rides…” Keanu trails off as his mind wanders to the day he christened the bike in the canyons around Los Angeles. “It holds the lines, whether straight or in the corners, really well. And it’s nimble. The weight of it is so centralized, that it comes up and down and goes side to side extremely well.”
Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger are so taken with the new bike that they have formed a company called Arch Motorcycles and will be turning their materpiece into a production model.
The article which takes you through the background on the custom bike can be read here.