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many desires not only to ride, but to ride a custom, one- bikes dried up, like markets tend to do” he added. This
of-a-kind machine. Many of them love the feeling that can change forced Cycle Works to change direction. “After
only be achieved by riding something you know no one the chopper season passed, the baggers seemed to take
else has. You alone are the owner of that original artwork. off” stated Hammonds. So, Cycle Works began produc-
Fortunately, Lumberton is home to one of the finest cus- ing baggers. For those who may not know, a bagger is a
tom bike and machine shops around. Cycle Works, locat- bike with hard-shell saddlebags. But it goes way beyond
ed at 296 Henry Hammond Road in Lumberton has been that. Custom baggers can consist of windshields or fair-
designing and producing custom bikes since December ings, stretched and lowered saddlebags, larger wheels,
2001. Owner Jamie Hammonds started Cycle Works out custom paint and much more. The sky is definitely the
of a desire to produce custom machines like no one else. limit with these beauties! “There is no limit to how much
Jamie built his first custom in 1997, followed by two more someone can spend on these bikes” said Hammonds.
in 1998. The blood sweat and tears that Jamie experienced
during those builds would only reinforce the strong desire In addition to building custom bikes, Cycle Works also
for more, and from that Cycle Works was born. has a full-service machine shop and sells parts from
many popular suppliers. Dirty Bird, Speed By Design,
For several years Cycle Works concentrated on manufac- TOL, Bad Dog, Drag Specialties, Insane Asylum, Top
turing their own line of bikes known as CWI. “We pro- Shop and American Suspension are just a few of the op-
duced CWI Prostreet, choppers, hardtails and bobbers” tions for parts. Cycle Works is your one stop shop for
said Hammonds. “But after a while the market for those parts and machine work.