The challenge of locating all that gear in the back left Fishman perplexed for a few days. Rivera says, "I couldn't just start stacking stuff; I needed to follow all the curves of what we had done in front." Unfortunately that week Fishman slept very little at night just thinking how to integrate everything and yet make it look like it was part of the scooter. With Maddog caught up in the front, he began by making a steel basket for the Stinger battery that would sit above the rear tire. Now that the battery was mounted Rivera and Machado teamed up to construct a steel frame with two levels that would form the mounting rack for the processors and the 2-channel amplifier. Once that was accomplished it was time to dress up the rack to incorporate the 5-channel amplifier and 10-inch subwoofer.
Fishman began by fabricating a shroud that went over the back end of the scooter and became the mounting spot for the amplifier. The amplifier was mounted on a piece of Plexiglas which was painted silver to match the silver accents on the bike. The next step was to add the subwoofer above the amplifier. Maddog built an enclosure in a shape of a wedge to make the integration smoother. The final piece finally hit Fishman on how he was to integrate the subwoofer. Staring at the scooter one day from the side he followed the curves from the front all the way to the back tail light and noticed there was a drop-off right after the rear speaker. Rivera mounted the subwoofer in a way where the curve continued all the way to the back of the scooter. The final piece that was added to the subwoofer was a custom grill to match the silver bars on the scooter - and molding a BMW emblem on the back of the subwoofer to "give it the final touch" Fishman says.
When all the pieces were ready to be painted, they took a visit to DR. E "Emilio" at IEO Customs who was able to match the factory BMW red and paint all the pieces just before the MBC-1 made its way to Daytona. During the installation (which Fishman had to accomplish in record time), he also faced a few setbacks, which tested his limits. First he had an encounter with the front grille of a car while biking home one day after work. This is proof that he can take a licking and keep on ticking.
Delivering the MBC-1 to Daytona Beach in time for Spring Break Nationals was a major challenge for Rivera, who explains "I've never done anything like this before, and the small spaces I had to work with forced me to be more creative than ever. Plus it's a BMW with incredible quality so I needed to build it like BMW would build it. But I'm satisfied with the result, and it's just like something James Bond would drive. Maybe we'll install a machine gun and smoke cannon, but I gotta talk to Keith about it." Once there Keith Lehmann's mission was complete with the MBC-1 becoming the talk of the show once again. The MBC-1 will tour selected MB QUART dealers and appear at a few major events throughout 2001. Mission accomplished.