If there’s one custom shop that deserves a gold medal for tenacity, it’s ChillFab. The crew behind the Chiller motorized BMX developed their first prototype four years ago, while they were still based in Russia. Since then they’ve refined the Chiller to create production-ready electric- and petrol-powered versions, pushed the design further with a springer fork, and relocated themselves, their workshop, and their families to Serbia.
It’s been a rocky road for Alex Mazan, Arseniy Chekar, and Vlad Zaki, but they’re too excited about the future to focus on the past. They’ve just wrapped up an electric Chiller for a very special customer—the legendary rapper B-Real, best known as the frontman of Cypress Hill.
“We literally grew up on Cypress Hill’s music,” says Arseniy.…