I knew I wanted it to be really different, you know? Well my folks do the whole snowbird thing down in Florida and I was like "Hey if you see any good Hawaiians down there I'm looking for a good party shirt, so snag one for me!" Then they ended up bringing a great one home for my birthday and I got it and really looked hard at it and I was like "Hey that would be a good paint job!" Then I sent the idea off to Michael and he was like "ohh fuck yeah!" and it just kind of took off from there. I knew I was gonna eventually take it completely apart and do a paint job on it but I just couldn't figure out what I wanted to do. So I had the bike for a while and the previous version of it was like with a primer grey crazy Frank and a totally random seat that was just close enough to fit it and then a wassell tank flat blacked out all rattle can stuff. So how did the bike evolve into this today? Specifically with the whole Hawaiian shirt theme, you definitely don't see that too often in the realm of custom choppers. You know it pulls you right into it for sure like, its the 1st thing I saw as I was walking up to the bike and said "daaaaamn, that thing is perfect" then you pull back and realize the theme all fits together perfectly. Everyone just loves that thing, it just makes the bike. I actually found him on a random search and I already had the Hawaiian shirt theme going on and Don knew him and sent him our idea to use his image on an air cleaner and he ended up being stoked about it. It was a tall boy artwork, this guy on Instagram I believe is his handle. Um, well I guess it's kind of like everybody's favorite thing, the "vacation forever" air cleaner that I had engraved by Don Lang.
Thats so rad! So aside from the killer paint job what is one of your favorite parts of the bike?
Yeah they had it for close to 8 months I think, but yeah dude it worked out so good. Wow! haha holy crap, that's a lot of clear. Yeah so it was like base, and then clear, then spider web and then clear, and then they blocked out the murals, then clear, then Bob striped the murals, (which are all one shot paints hand brushed seriously probably like 10,000 brush strokes) then 10 more coats of clear on top of all that. Then, even beyond all that they ended up still doing over 100+ hours of elaborate paint work on it! 100 hours! That is just wild. So I was actually talking to Michael earlier today about the paint and he said that you did all the framework molding and basically had it all ready for them. It's stretched up an inch and out like a 1/2 an inch and I did all the molding on it, then the paint work was done by Michael Geltz and Bob Anderson. Then I scored a crazy Frank Fender on kind of a random deal and it just sort of took off from there. Well it's a '66 shovelhead and I got it from a dude in California, it was already chopped up a little then, like the frame was chopped. Let's start with your name and where you hail from? Which is why we wanted to get a little insight on the "party shirt vibes" Iowa native and custom builder Jace Schroeder is laying down with his 1966 Crazy Frank shovelhead swing arm chopper "Vacation forever." Along with the paint masterworks of Michael Geltz aka "Flying Weasel" and one shot wonder artist Bob Anderson, Jace is setting the dial to a cool yet comfortable 72ﾟ permanently with this ever chill Shovelhead "Vacation Forever." Well what if doom and gloom isn't your cup of tea? What if you are more of the good times party vibes kinda chopper enthusiast? Well we have just the bike for you then and quite frankly we've had just about enough gloom for one lifetime this past year so right now the world could use a little P.M.A.
In the world of custom choppers it's easy to get wrapped up in the ever popular doom and gloom motif when choosing what statement your bike is going to make.
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