All About Me

Born in Miami, Fl

I have two sisters Holly and Jennifer (niece Taylor)

Father Peter D’Oench (News Reporter) Mom Connie D’Oench (House wife).
   Words that will always stick in my mind are advice my dad gave me when I was a little girl (tomboy). “You have to love what you do in life”..  I also always grew up with mom’s advice “If the boys can do it why can’t you?” Therefore I adapted my mom’s stubborn head strong personality and my father’s go get’em out going personality. It was like they were conditioning me for a life changing biker build off I never knew was coming my way.

   I started as a passenger “Riding Bitch” on bikes yet, that was short lived with the way I am. I fell in love with the control and adrenaline rush of driving a bike. I had my own do it yourself bike tech tips in a local South Florida magazine called “Dana’s Garage”. Short lived also the magazine went under. Being around bike events and grew to know a lot of people in the industry. Little did I know some of these God sent friends would save my ass when it came to my build off.

   I was in the middle of Journalism classes in college when the build off opportunity landed in my lap. I ran for the chance for two major reasons…
   1. Maybe this could open doors to hosting bike shows (follow in Dad’s footsteps “Do what I love”) and
   2. Wow who wouldn’t jump at the chance to build a custom motorcycle? Maybe most men would say this but remember I've always been a tomboy (Thanks mom for the strength “If the boys can do it why can’t I?”).     

   I had never built a bike before or used practically any of the tools it takes to build one. I had my friend Tako from Sickasso Cycles open his shop doors to let me do my fabrication learning and building. He is such a busy man so; I was at the shop alone with Diesel the Pit bull most of the time. Needless to say I had a ton of re-dos. The last stages of my build my friend Sam Nehme owner of Broward Motorsports opened his shop doors to me. There I did the last few days of fabrication wiring and final assembly. When it came time for body work I only had a week. My friend Kenny who owns a bay in a warehouse gave me the keys to his place to work out of. I would have days starting at 9am and lasting past 4am for a week straight.  I was very accustomed to these hours but sanding for that many hours even with bloody fingertips was like boot camp. My friend Bones owner of Billy Bones Hotrod saved me on this job in showing me how to do body work and helping me late at night. Bones also painted my bike and did the last few pin stripes in the trailer before it left for Vegas (The Finals).  I did around 90% of all my fabrication, 50% of the body (bondo) work and assisted in the final assembly. There are so many crazy obstacles I had to overcome for the build but your eyes probably couldn’t handle reading so long on your computer J. Yet, without my friends and family that believed in me I would have never made it.

   Ends up I made my two goals happen
   1. I built my own custom motorcycle and
   2. I will be hosting on season 2 for The Metric Revolution Hell Yeah!! I can not wait to build another bike and host more shows. Don't let life pass you up because it is amazing what you can do when you want something so bad. I live by the Chinese proverb "Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt those doing it".  
         

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