Full Throttle Custom Nothing a few words from our sponsor... OK, now lots of your guys come to this site linked off of other forums, etc.  And some of you have an idea that there is a beef between our shop, and Eli's garage, Full Throttle.  i won't call it a shop, it's a garage located behind a pizza shop on Main street in Mechanicsburg.  i could take a bunch of petty little jabs at them, stating the reason i call it a garage and not a shop is due to the fact that they don't really customize anything, and don't even have a damn bathroom in the place. But that's besides the point now... The original plan was, we'd be partners.  He did the polish and the mechanical work, and i would do the painting.   We would then continue to try to make the place grow into a custom sportbike shop.  i made a few contacts, got Eli some polishing jobs, and it became obvious that fast how this partnership wouldn't work.  Now i didn't do any of the work, but the only work that came into that shop was because i busted my ass throwing our names out there so we could get some work out.   This went on for about 6 months, and Full Throttle got evicted from their shop for non payment of rent that he owed from before i ever knew him.  We tried looking for another location, but weren't very successful. During this time, i shelled out money to help Eli keep up on his bike payments, child support, etc whatever.  He wanted to polish, but didn't have a buffer.  He was doing the shit with an air drill.  So i sprang for the buffer.  i got a fucking stator cover polished for all my trouble. As we're riding around looking for empty shops for rent, we run into Kris.  Neither of us had met Kris before, and he immediately expressed interest in getting involved with bikes before we told him what we were out doing.  So after a few conversations, Kris agreed to come on board as an investor.  i was thinking more along the lines of a partner, and Eli didn't really like the idea.  He did like Kris' money though.... We got slammed with helmet orders, and the polish work wasn't coming in.  So Kris helped out with the helmets, while Eli wanted to ride bmx bikes all day.  That was the end of the fucking line for me. Kris and i then made the decision to part ways with "Full Throttle." Eli approached me about changing my mind about the whole deal, and I tried to explain it wasn't anything personal, but the money i personally had shelled out to help him out was never returned in neither cash nor appreciation.   Kris didn't want to waste any more money on any kind of liabilities that were unnecessary.  There's a lot more shady shit on Eli's end of the deal than we care to mention, so we won't.  Normally i like to name drop but i don't have the time nor space to fit it all. What it comes down to is this: 2502 Design has 2 owners. We sank in our own money. No loans, no handouts, nothing from anyone. My compressor and airbrushes were paid for out of my own pocket (except the gift that Luz gave me getting me my first airbrush).  The tools in the shop Kris bought.  We didn't take on a new partner every few months to have them buy our equipment, and make false promises to employees that never see a payday. Full Throttle? Now i got the buffer that polishes people's parts. Dawn bought the compressor, and pays the rent there so Eli doesn't have to get a real job.  Frank bought the materials to build a paint booth when they were attempting to be custom painters, and some other guy that gives us dirty looks all the time bought the shit to do the powdercoating.  So how in the fuck does Full Throttle have an owner?  It doesn't really.  It's owned by someone that gets by on doing nothing but using people. So there's the story.  We didn't fuck Eli over as he likes to tell people.  He didn't polish my rims either, they're fucking chrome.  Kris only had like $100,000 inheritance when we started the place, so no, we didn't steal any money from his broke ass either.  Full Throttle has never done one piece on any of the bikes that we have here. We polish, powder coat, paint, everything.  Whatever you need done to your bike we can cover. Need gear? Got that too.  i don't need to sell your on the rest of our work. check the gallery.