OUR PHILOSOPHY

Lord Drake Kustoms is company that has its roots in motorcycle customizing and design.

Cafe Racer, Baggers, Old School, Bobber, Vintage, Custom, Dirt track, Pro Street, Off Road, Choppers, Street Fighters, Racing bikes and any style that you can imagine, without limits…

We make your dreams come true, customized and unique!

Our inspiration blends the love of two wheels with the desire to create exclusive products. We live the two wheeled life and our crew is a diverse group of fanatics about motorcycle world, customizing and art on wheels.

FOUR WHEELS MOVE THE BODY…TWO WHEELS MOVE THE SOUL!

THE COMPANY

Lord Drake Kustoms has facilities in Malaga (Spain) and Miami (USA), from where it offers a motorcycle customization service and other services related to the world of two wheels to clients around the world.

Being a leading company in the world of motorcycle transformation and modification sector; and due to the high level of the work we do, over time, we have been forced to improve our infrastructure and facilities until we have one of the best motorcycle customization workshops.

Each motorcycle or customizing work is fit to the customer’s needs in budget as well as style, using the best and oldest tools: hands, head, soul and passion.

LDK are a mixture of art, design and motorcycle influences and offers external design services for product design, bike builds and marketing.

THE FOUNDER

Born in 1975 in Madrid, Francisco Alí Manén is a native of Vélez Málaga (Spain). He is the owner and founder of Lord Drake Kustoms.

THE BEGINNINGS

From the age of 8 he is passionate about everything related to the world of rock music and heavy metal and of course hallucinated with those wonderful Harleys and Choppers motorcycles that those hairy and tattooed rockers wore from their favourite bands. At that time they could only be seen in television music videos or in a report from one or another specialized magazine.

From a young age he also had a fondness for activities in nature (being a member of the local Scout groups and later of the OJE). Already in the last years of school and especially from the time of high school, Francisco began to work in parallel during weekends and holidays in order to have more economic independence.

At 14, Francisco has his first motorcycle, a Vespino moped. And she knew from the first day that she did not want to have her like the others and chose to paint and airbrush her with skulls, flames and album cover graphics of some of her favourite rock bands. He never imagined what he would do with motorcycles almost 30 years later!

In 2004 he buys his first Harley, which without knowing it at that time, would be the beginning of what is now his life and Lord Drake Kustoms. That motorcycle did not last anything in its original state; he painted and customized it until he saw his first Harley modified and finished a year later. It all started in the garage, where he built his workshop from scratch and where he spent almost all his free time after work. The first thing he did was to hang a banner in his garage with the name of what is now his brand: Lord Drake Kustoms. From that moment the bike starts to win prizes basically in all the events in which it participates nationally and in 2007 it is presented in the European Rally of Harley where it is runner-up in Europe in the Big Twin category. At this moment, the spark strikes and the hobby begins to become a work objective.

In 2007, together with a friend and parallel to his company, he opened a motorcycle workshop in Torre del Mar (Spain) where Francisco was in charge of the transformation work in the afternoons after attending his main business. In this workshop they did mostly repairs but not too much customization work; so it did not take long for him to realize that Spain was not his place and even less to dedicate himself to his dream that every day had him more obsessed.

THE EMIGRATION TO MIAMI.

At the beginning of 2008 and unexpectedly; In one of his usual trips to the United States, his dream began to take shape when a business opportunity arose in Miami and Francisco did not hesitate a minute … in less than 2 months he closed everything that had been his life to labor and material level to the point of selling your company in Spain in order to get the most economic liquidity to turn your dream into reality. Francisco left without his family to Miami until he got his visa to be in the country and where he created and was co-owner of a rental business and tours of Harley motorcycles called American Rider. The first months and until American Rider began to work were quite hard, but once everything began to roll his wife and son also moved to Miami.

That same year Francisco attends the custom motorcycle world championship in South Dakota, being shocked by what he saw there and thought he would never reach those levels … 10 years later, in 2018, he becomes runner-up world in that championship.

American Rider became one of the largest rental and tour companies of Harley in Florida, having a fleet of more than 60 bikes for customers and tourists arriving in the city of Miami. Also in this company Francisco started selling and exporting Harleys to the whole world and of course he began to customize his first motorcycles in the United States.

In 2012 he decided to dedicate himself exclusively to customizing motorcycles under his brand, with which he created some of the most incredible and spectacular custom bikes in the United States … Lord Drake Kustoms Miami had begun. Located in the center of Miami (Coconut Groove), it was customary to receive a visit to their store of movie and television stars, artists of all types and high-level clients, who were surprised by the work and motorcycles of this Spanish language; that little by little it was penetrating in the high spheres of Miami.

With Francisco dedicated to 100%, the brand begins to rise to the point that the magazine NEXOS (American Airlines, with a circulation of more than 209,000 copies and more than 8.9 million readers) makes mention of Lord Drake’s motorcycles Kustoms as one of the attractions to highlight in the streets of Miami, in a report that was published about the famous Design Distric of this city, in this magazine.

In 2013 and after a decade attending the main shows and championships in the United States as a spectator; Francisco and his brand become competitors and he also becomes champion in all the championships in which he participates, highlighting the most famous worldwide in the mecca of the custom bike: DAYTONA BIKE WEEK, where he was champion in the category coffee racer Later he doubled with two of his bikes on the Rat’s Hole Bike Show (famous for its broadcast on Discovery Channel) … from here Lord Drake Kustoms is shot worldwide.

THE EXPANSION BEGINS.

In 2014 and due to the success achieved in the United States, LDK motorcycles begin to be exported worldwide, which is why Francisco opens a new LDK branch in his hometown of Vélez Málaga (Spain) to serve his customers in Europe. and East. Between 2014 and 2015, a project for a TV series based on Lord Drake Kustoms motorcycles begins to be prepared in Miami and is expected to soon be released.

To date he has won some of the most famous championships worldwide, in different categories, of which we must highlight: In 2013 Champion in Daytona Bike Week (USA) and double winner (first and second place) in the most prestigious bike show of USA (Rat’s Hole famous for its broadcast on Discovery Channel). In 2014 Runner-up of Europe. In 2015 first and second place in Europe in the official bike show of Harley Davidson. In 2016, he is named as 10 of the best Harley world customizers with Scrambler style, by the most prestigious magazine of the sector in Japan. In 2016 he achieved the 5th position in the world in the “Modified Harley” category of the AMD World Championship of custom bike building. In 2017 double European Champion in the official bike show of Harley Davidson. In 2018 he was proclaimed World Runner-up and 6th worldwide.