Name: Jason Rafanan

Bikes: 1977 Honda CB750 F2, 1971 CB175

First ride: I borrowed a lot of my friends’ bikes, as they were really big in the crotch rocket scene. The first bike I ever took on the road was a 2000 HOnday CBR600F4. Shortly after, it was a friend’s 1998 GSXR750.

When: 2000 (16 years young)

Location: Seattle – West Side til I die

Occupation: User Experience Designer/Freelance Graphic Design

Favorite hobbies: BMX-ing, snowboarding, skateboarding, spending time with my son and the rest of the family, cliff jumping, cooking, collecting MP3s, kicking-ass…

Food: Mom’s home-cooked Adobo over white rice. Zippy’s Burgers on the weekends

Favorite Beer: Whites. Blue Moon, Hefeweizen. And good old Vitamin R

Favorite music: HipHop, Drum and Bass, Reggae, Rock and Roll, Bluegrass. Anything but American Idol bullshit.

Favorite place to drink your favorite drink: Alki Strip. Georgetown. Capitol Hill. In a flask on a Steven’s Pass chairlift

Current Projects: Right now I’m turning out my ‘77 honda cb750. Going bone stock to a tricked out, customized cafe’ racer style rocket. Custom oil tank and seat, chrome and powdered pieces, electronic ignition… And I just wrapped up my 175 racer.

Special skills: My ‘design eye’ gives different perspective on bike builds, and helping out on the KnuckleBusters website.Oh, and my striking good looks, of course.

Last concert: Roni Size. Drum and bass all up in my face.

Cage: 2001 Pathfinder