About Atom Bomb Custom Motorcycles Atom Bomb Custom Motorcycles was founded in early 2008 by Clay Rathburn and his wife Erin. The son of a hot rodder, Clay grew up with a torch in his hand. After time spent as an automotive technician and a successful career as a race car fabricator and engine builder, Clay turned his professional attention to hot rods. His bare metal 1934 Ford Pickup was a multiple award winner at the 2007 Detroit Autorama, winning Best Nostalgic Pickup, and the Overhaulin' award from Chip Foose and Chris Jacobs. With it's hand fabricated frame, suspension, bed, and a radical chop all in bare metal for the world to see, the '34 provided Clay ample opportunity to take his fabrication and metal shaping skills to a new level. As the pickup project was winding down in late 2007, Clay rediscovered his childhood love of motorcycles, and began building the black BSA. Clay's style, mixing the elegance of simplicity and an obsessive attention to detail, proved well suited to motorcycles. The success of the Black Bike led to several other commissioned builds, and Atom Bomb was born.

We strive to build our best motorcycle every time we build one. Each of our bikes is a labor of love, and receives 100% of our careful attention to detail from design to assembly. Atom Bomb motorcycles are built using as many original or period parts as possible. We pride ourselves on going the extra mile, be it reshaping a triple clamp with a file or spending two days polishing an exhaust system. Atom Bomb engines are all rebuilt in house using decades of racing and high performance mechanical experience. We also pride ourselves on building all of our complete frames and hardtail sections in house. This allows us to configure each frame to our specific requirements, rather than using off the shelf parts with off the shelf dimensions. In fact, the only thing we don't do on premises is bore cylinders and cover seats. While doing it all ourselves is not the best way to get rich, it IS the best way to ensure that we're building the best bikes we can, every time. Every painted surface on each motorcycle features a show quality finish applied by Chris Mizak or Clay Rathburn.