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WRETCHED EXCESS Customs was born out of a desire to build cool shit for cool people. I started this company after spending twenty years behind a desk and a computer as an AutoCAD designer and computer IT guru. I was born with a blood line of creativity and have utilized it over the years in everything from logo design to building design, but never in the world of custom motorcycles and cars, until now.
As a young child I remember hanging with my dad as he wrenched on old stock cars or added some juice to his outboard, I spent the weekends watching dirt track races with my pops. My father died when I was five and my brother and I would play in the old car on the farm and pretend we were on the track. Once my dad past away we moved to a life at the beach, surfing, skateboarding and causing trouble while my mom worked like a dog to keep a roof over our heads and food in our stomachs. I spent those younger years surfing the world and working to buy the next hot piece of equipment. When I was eighteen I was left to fend for myself and ended up hitting rock bottom, in debt up to my eyeballs, living on the street and stealing food from the local public school that I had attended earlier in life, but I still had a bad ass ride. Cars, bikes, and just about anything else with wheels have always been apart of my life, I'm a boneified gear head.
Then came my sweetheart, she slapped me around and made me realize that what I wanted out of life wasn't going to come easy. I got my ass in gear and got a good job, paid off my debts and set out to kick the world's ass. At twenty two we were married and a new life was started, the one behind the desk and computer. I had a bike, then we started to have kids so I put my newborns best interest to mind and sold it. There were a few sports cars along the way that I tinkered with but I was basically doing what everyone else does, just a little harder.
At thirty four I must have been going through a mid-life crisis or some shit and decided I wanted another bike. First a rice rocket, then a big American Harley, maybe a Harley with a lot of extra chrome. Ended up just saying fuck it, I'll build my own, the way I want. One year later I had a killer bike that was my brain child; I had successfully tapped into an area of my creativity and abilities that I had never done before. In the process I found a part of me that I had never had the opportunity to see, one of purity and one that is filled with soul and desire and endless energy to create. Bike number two was started immediately after the first one and I'm currently working on a few other custom projects for friends and family.
Everyone has wants and needs, but everyone's definitions of wants and needs aren't the same. If your reading this you must have oil in your veins and gears in your head. You want something different and you need it to be custom.
Chris Neborsky, 2003
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