News: Bike shop takes over 9/11 bike from bankrupt builder

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Shop helps charity stung by closed custom outfit

Excerpt, from Register-Mail (Ill.):
...[builder Doug] Niles had a hand in the first Sept. 11-themed bike, but in a completely different capacity. He was employed by the company that built the first tribute motorcycle, Mid-West Choppers, which filed bankruptcy in October. Ted Sjurseth, founder of America's 9/11 Foundation, commissioned a second bike with Mid-West Choppers and sent $30,000 to the company just prior to the bankruptcy. "That pretty much left them hanging," said Niles..."





http://www.register-mail.com/stories/121805/BIZ_B8EA0O66.GID.shtml

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...And an update on the bankrupt shop.
Fleeced buyers angry. Now there's a bulletin.
They shop up in court to confront builder.

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4259294&nav=1sW7

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Excerpt:
"... 'Where's the money? asked Michigan resident Rick Klepek, who said he paid Miyler $33,000 for a custom chopper he never received.
'It's expensive doing business,' Chip Miyler said after a moment of searching for an answer..."

40 owners, $1.2 Mill involved, say cops



http://www.pjstar.com/stories/121705/REG_B8EA3NBM.033.shtml