ARMIE: This is what we've been training on. Some old British bike.
Sexy bike.
It took a little getting used to. You have to ride it like an old car but it's still fast.
I'm gonna ride the hell out of it.
(MIMICS MOTOR REVVING)
We're on our way to the Metisse factory.
We're seeing Gerry Lisi, owner of Metisse, who supplied the bikes for our movie.
I had a love affair with that bike.
- Hey, Armie, how are you? - Gerry, how are you, sir?
- Nice to see you. How've you been? - Nice to see you. Very good, thank you.
My name's Gerry Lisi, owner of Metisse Motorcycles Limited.
Well, the history basically is that the Rickman brothers created the Mk 3 motorcycle...
...and it proved to be a very successful motorcycle in that period.
This is your factory, obviously attached to your golf course and your country club.
LISI: This is a part of it... ARMIE: Yeah.
LISI: ...and this is where we, sort of, do a bit of assembly in here, and a few repairs.
ARMIE: And how many people do you have working in here?
There's three to four of us.
This is my old Harley-Davidson...
-...which is more familiar to your country. - Yeah, yeah, the good old V-Twin.
LISI: Yeah. - You guys do all the tubing and all?
LISI: Yeah, we do the whole thing. - Do you really?
You can make these all out. That's what Metisse is all about.
Because it means half-breed.
You can use bits off anything to make one bike, if you get my meaning.
ARMIE: Right, because originally the Metisses...
it was, basically, you would select the engine you'd want...
- Absolutely. - You'd select what you wanted...
-...and Metisse would build the bike you wanted. - Yeah.
(HORN HONKS)
- Safety. LISI: This is where we do all the jigging up.
And we make all the frames in here, you see.
And this would be a typical jig...
...for the frames, and these would hold all the plates in place while you're welding them...
-...and what have you. - Right. How old is this rack?
That there was an original Rickman jig from years ago.
- The Rickman brothers. Yeah. - Yeah, the Rickman brothers.
ARMIE: It's great to see an old piece of machinery like this...
...that you guys use to make these bikes...
...especially because, I would say, a large portion of Metisse bikes...
...probably come off of this rack. LISI: Oh, absolutely right, yeah.
Including the ones that they were racing in the late '60s.
LISI: Reminder they would have probably had four or five of these.
Right. Fantastic. Should we go see what it looks like when we get more on the frame?
Absolutely. I'll take you.
So this bike is a lot closer to the exact bike we were using.
This is pretty much the bike you rode, except it has lights
ARMIE: Right. - And this is the road version that we do.
ARMIE: So this one is in a stage of completion...
...but what else do you have to do on this one?
This one, actually, we have to fit the wheels now, this is pretty much there.
-It's a slightly different version. - Oh, yeah, look at these handlebars.
LISI: Yeah, these are... This guy wanted different handlebars on them, and what have you.
You can get whatever you want on these bikes, right?
- You can do what you like. - Totally customizable.
The thing's totally... Customer needs... We deal with that.
ARMIE: These bikes are completely bespoke pieces of art...
...and, you know, I feel like there aren't that many people lucky enough to ride them.
We actually have somebody here who was lucky enough...
...to get to blow up several of them through his negligent abuse.
(GRUNTING)
But, this is Lee, our stunt rider for the movie, Lee Morrison.
Good to see you, Lee.
- Hi, Lee. - Gerry.
ARMIE: I mean, this is the roots of what you do.
MORRISON: Definitely. ARMIE: You were a pro rider.
- This is where it all, kind of, started. MORRISON: Yep.
It's getting back to basics.
For me, again, it's the first I've ridden, like a '60s motocross bike.
So, for me being sport, with all the bikes and modern technology that I've had...
...to get back on these, once you embrace what they are, it's been so much fun.
Well, I feel like we've seen where you guys make the frames.
I've seen where you assemble them. We've seen the finished product.
I think we've had enough foreplay. Should we go, maybe, take one for a ride?
- And why not. - You ready?
- Let's go ahead and do it. - Let's do it.
Dude, this thing is so good. Oh.
It's such a difference from the 650 bike.
I gotta do one more lap.
You don't get many days like this at all where you get to drive out to the Metisse factory...
...in the English countryside, jump on a motorcycle...
...and tear it around in a big grass field.
I mean it's... This is... I have definitely had worse days.
I'm not sure if I've had better.
We absolutely love the bikes and I feel like it really made that part of the movie.
Thank you for letting us use them.
- We really appreciate it. - Absolute pleasure.
ARMIE: Yeah. LISI: Okay.