Saturday Night Special

Saturday night Dave and I finished work and shot right home to the shop and started making an exhaust system.  I wanted something crazy looking cause all you ever see is the same drag pipe design or the Vance and Hines design shortshots on Sportsters.

 My pipe design, I like em.

 Next up was my rear fender, I have had this fender for some time I just thought the paint was kinda crazy.  Well Dave and Tam said I need to run that fender.

I've made a few more things since Saturday but this is how she woke up Easter morning.

Busy Monday

So Rollin wanted a sissy bar for Revenge Run, we told to bring it all over and we would give him a hand mounting it.  Dave and Rollin knocked it out of the park the bar looks great.  

 Before

 Measurements

 Finished

We got alot done this weekend with this sissy bar and my sporty build, more pics to come.

Successful Night

 So Tam is starting to decorate a room in the house with kool beer bottles, we had a date with Lucifer last night and it got the best of me pretty good.  8% alcohol and 92% butt hole is what it contained pretty much according to Dave.

 Another reason I put my sporty in a different frame was because I had a horrible rocker block gasket leak I had to take care of.  So we knocked that out and the rear tire alignment which gave us hell but we got it.

Before I called it a night I hooked my jockey shift up again.  It's gonna suck when the Panhead comes together because the shift patterns for the two bikes are ass backwards from each other.

56 FL

Tak and this knarley 56 FL

Soul Searching

Since the Panhead is not making the Revenge Run, I figured why not add to the excitement and give my sporty a new look.  Dave and I got a  Paughco frame for it in a funny trade we made, and it was gonna be our next winter project.  But what the hell why wait.

 The starting look

 Disassemble time.

 A motorless frame.

 The new frame on the table.

 This is just my mock up plan.

Nothing is set in stone but seriously I'm not worried about paint and powdercoat.  I'm just gonna build this bike and ride it.  I watched Wil Thomas's Born Free video yesterday and said something that was true as hell.  He may can't fabricate like the best of the best but his bikes have a soul.  I stayed up last night till 2am trying to find the soul of this bike.  I made an attempt to mock up the bike, I think I like the way she sits like this.  With my bitchin' Peanut City Geek/MotoScum painted tank to represent my chopper community love.  Gonna try to find a few more pieces but she will be on the Revenge Run so see you nerds there.

Hooter's Bike Night

So part of being a successful business  you have to you have to put yourself out in the community during events mingle a bit. So we took a few bikes out and shook some babies and kiss some hands.

 It was a chrome overkill, fat tire bike abortion, bandana wearing, MMA shirt wearing, egotistical bike night for the most part.  I did see some good friends I haven't seen in a while tho.  I have always been a believer also that the hand clutch tank shift may look nice but has got to suck at slow speeds and gravel parking lots, just makes no sence to me.  Just be a man and clutch with your foot.

Speed Up To Slow Down And Think

So I have been busting my ass trying to finish my Panhead for the Revenge Run.  Well last night it hit me, why the fuck am I rushing my Panhead.  It's mine and I have another running bike.  Plus I really don't want to rush the break-in procedure of the motor.  So rather than push it.  I'm gonna hold off a minute and do it right.  I'm sending some stuff out to chrome and I'm gonna do this bike nice.  I've waited years for a Panhead and everything is coming together so nice on it so why rush it.  Cassanova sent some sneak peaks of my paint and it looks great.  I didn't send it to just some back woods shop I sent it to the one of the best painters I know and love, so why trash up his work with a shitty performance on my part.  The same goes with my seat set-up from Walt, and Jimmy line boring my cases, I would be pissed if I fucked the motor due to my idiot break-in method.  Plus there is already enough kool bikes on the Revenge Run.

 This is the first picture I got of the Panhead paint

 Coat #2

Coat #3, and I haven't seen any of the artwork yet.

Sara's Sporty

Sara got her sporty painted, it would be kool if she rode it to Revenge Run this year.

New Paint On the Knuck

Scotty in Indiana painted his Knuck, it was black and has been seen on this website before.  Scotty decided to go with a sage green rattle can, it looks mighty fine I must say.