Custom bike builder qualifies for Swiss show

Motorcycles in progress sit on elevated racks inside Hawke Lawshe’s bike shop, Vintage Technologies, in Columbia Falls. Like many mechanical shops of its kind, the place has a well-worn feel: tools, bike parts, old photographs and an American flag in one corner add to the visual cacophony. In the middle of it all, and fittingly so, is the owner and master bike builder.