Xavier Muriel
November 6, 2023
Xavier is well known to the High Seas Rally community as the lead custom builder onboard in 2022 and 2023. He is Cycle Source Magazine’s 2019 Readers Poll Builder of the Year and creator of Easyriders Magazine’s 2019 Bike of the Year. To Xavier, building a bike is a creative process that starts with an idea from which you take the raw elements and time and hard work, and then you watch it come to life.
In 2024, he’s helping to expand our custom motorcycle giveaway as our featured builder for 4-Builders, 4-Bikes presented by Law Tigers.
Xavier is Cycle Source Magazine’s 2019 Readers Poll Builder of the Year and creator of Easyriders Magazine’s 2019 Bike of the Year. His deep-rooted passion for motorcycles began at the age of six when his father gifted him “Mr. 50” — a 1974 Honda. Simultaneously, he nurtured a fervor for music that ultimately transformed into a global career. Xavier has played on stages alongside his childhood heroes, but never relinquished his passion for motorcycles. Amid the tours and recording music as a drummer for Buckcherry, he built his own bike, instilled with his father’s wisdom: “Exhaust all efforts before you pay someone to do it.” That first bike sent Xavier down the road to begin building custom motorcycles professionally and opening his own shop. With help from friends in the industry, Xavier dove into building custom motorcycles with the same love he put into his music. “To me, these two loves are one in the same,” Xavier says. “It is a creative process that starts with an idea from which you take the raw elements and time and hard work, and then you watch it come to life. That is the beauty from which art is created. I approach my builds in the same manner as my drumming: less is always more. Clean and simple lines that enhance the overall feel and look of a bike. To me, that makes a motorcycle. After all they are made to be ridden.”
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