It is the mission of Dead Center Cycles to extend motorcycle flexibility and rider choice with products of the highest quality and functionality.

Many riders would love a full dresser for long trips but don’t want to give up the wind in your face riding experience of something more stripped down when close to home or out on the town. Rather than being forced to compromise, the Road Captain Fairing enables you to have both in one package.

The Dead Center Fairing, combined with the easily swappable seats, back rests, luggage racks and trunks currently on the market enable a rider to easily go from street-wise stripped-down cruiser to fully decked cross-country dresser in minutes. All without so much as cracking open a tool box. Why shouldn’t you have exactly what you need exactly when you need it? Why compromise?

Stay tuned for more products in this vein from Dead Center Cycles in the future.

Willem van der Hoeven earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Vehicular Research Institute at Western Washington University. There he gained broad vehicular design skills as well as a variety of hands-on industrial abilities ranging from machine tool and welding skills to materials and computer science knowledge to advanced composite design and construction techniques.

Willem worked in product development in the recreational equipment field as well as the automotive aftermarket before moving into software product development. He specialized in quality assurance in the Windows division at Microsoft and contributed to 5 major Windows software releases before leaving his position as Test Manager in 2004 and founding Dead Center Cycles.