Bought it looking like this...big, wide and low...but although lookswise it was good, buildquality was poor...



The suspension bottomed out against the oiltank, wiring was a mess and loads of other niggly faults made me decide to tear the whole thing apart and start over....

Although I liked the look of the bike, it wasn't what I would have build myself so I'm busy building it to my personal tastes....

A few pics of the mock-up proces, trying to sort out seating position and such...





As for current specs:

-1950's replica panhead frame with wishbone downtubes, original cast headstock etc. widened at the rear to accept 180 tyre

-FLH wideglide frontforks with custom made billet yokes, downtubes powdercoated flat black

-custom fueltank with hidden fixtures, fifties speedster fuelcap with brass screws and closures

-custom stainless oiltank, made from parts of a bottler out of a brewery

-alloy rims front and rear, powdercoated flat black, stainless spokes, 130 tyre front and 180 rear, both balloontype

-shortened flattrackbars with internal throttle

Should go and take pics of all the parts, every part has been homemade or heavily modified!

It was fitted with a tuned EVO engine and a 5-speed, engine has been sold and a 2 litre will be fitted, got a 4-speed with kickstart ready for it and it will be converted to run both chain and open primary with belt

 

Custom bikes are cool as fuck i rekon

Nice one.

 

love the front tyre width

 

I like things that are modded in the sense that I like having my own personalised ride...it's enjoyable to design and build it and I guess for me it's got quite a bit of 'emotional value' as I've put a lot of my own creativity and energy in it.

Anyway, the finished article will be very very low, with very short and wide forks and wide rear, other than that all flatblack and brass *always loved the JPS Lotuscars!* and very minimalistic.

It's got only 4 gears, not electric starter, no speedo, no mirrors, no idiotlights, no indicators, no front mudguard

 

The front is only a 130 but being a balloontyre it looks pretty wide!

 

my old boss's new toy (amongst many other stupid things )...


he also has a 2.1L chopper for himself, along with a dodge charger, a dodge pickup, some V8 ford van ive not seen and something else i cant remember

all amazing though, the attention to detail on that bike above is STUNNING!

 

a few of the bits i can remember about the above:

fully hydraulic suspension, slams to the floor!
beer actually dispenses
all custom built from the ground up
rear tyre is 3xx i forget
1.6L iirc

 

Meaning?

 

Start a resto thread mate

I will keep ma eye on it

 

I guess this is my restothread then

 

Ditto, Love Harleys

Saw this one the other day when I went to get my Mini, Bit to much chrome for my liking, i'd rather have polished metal tbh but still..

 

have you got a bigger pic of the 1st pics you posted?

I might be changing my mind about how they look!

aLex

 

This is my dads mates harley he was in America at octoberfest bike week 2005 in daytona he seen this bike it was built by edd hardy customs he told the guy he wanted it & shipped to scotland..nearly Ł40k later its here & on the road..I will get more pics of it when he starts using it this year he keeps it in a cancoon along with his other harleys...I will get the correct spec of it too..Its got a 125 cubic inch revtect motor & a the rear tyre is wider than my m3 rear wheel

 

cool my man

 

Not quite a Vespa is it

 

Thinking of changing the forks on mine

 

personally I despise chrome....

I've powdercoated the downtubes, rims and mudguard flatblack and have just spend 150 quid on a flatblack paintjob on the tank

When I pick up the tank and I've fitted the brass fuelcap I'll take some pics....

I like the bike to be low, short, wide and clean

 

I do too! I prefer hand polished tbh.. looks far better

To much shine/chrome is tacky IMO...




Nice bike carlo

 

Nice Bike(s)

 

looks like something exile choppers would do

 

LOVELY!!!


Just bought a VN800 to do something very similar to, making it looke very 50's chopper/bobber style... just put white wall tyres on it, changed the exhaust, taken the wing mirrors off, and taken the front mud guard off, just sorting out the seating now!

 

I was going to say it reminds me of this



My favourite ever bike!

 

 

ffs carlo , im not into my bikes as you know but thats amazing !!! would look mental cruising the ayrshire coast that thing ##

 

I quite like some of the exile bikes but they have a few minor details that are flawed...

 

Billy lane @ choppers inc bikes are awesome I like russel mitchels biles but they all look alike ...

Indian larry's bies were awesome but he aint here now R.I.P.

 

When i went to the states i went to billy lanes shop.... the dude himself was there working whhich was kinda weird... but you werent allowed to talk to him! and there were womens bra's hanging all over the place because apparantly if you gave him your bra youd get a free picture with him.... no... no i didnt!



Indian Larrys bike were a bit troo crazy for me! especially with the horrid ratfink on most.... but he died doing what he loved most.....


russell mitchells bikes are great i think... plain, simple but effective.... did anyone see the trike he did for the biker build off?

 

To be honest, there is so much hype going on in the bikebuilding business...

Billy Lane, Russel Mitchell and others are treated and acting like celebrities wich I think is rather sad, some builds are indeed very nice but there are enough wich you could easily improve on.
Custom bikes are a crze at the moment and I see to many people with west coast custom shorts and caps if you know what I mean...

Maria: I like fifties hot rod bikes!

 

Some more mocki up pics untill I get round to taking pics of all the new bits! Please note this was taken in a lock up, this is not my workspace

 

Ill try and get some pics up of mine soon!


but yeah the fifties bobber styleeee looks lovely!

 

One question Steph...
What's a two litre V twin like to kick start?

 

Hi Hooligan and other's, this has been my runaround for several years now,



88ci twin cam Superglide, fatboy rear wheel, Fxrs front, 320mm floating disc's and 4 piston Brembo's.

Andy

 

very nice my mate built his harley from scratch its fucking stunning he spent 15 grand on it tho lol

 

Bernie! How's life mate?

No idea what it's gonna be like to kickstart the fucker but the plan is to fit two decompression valves and pray and won't launch me into orbit when it kicks back

My Husaberg is a real bastard to kickstart as well, kicks like a mule!

Nice runaround, was working on a dyna twincam only yesterday, couldn't get it to idle under 800 rpm properly though

 

I was gony send you this carlo but i knew you would already have posted on it, John`s bike is awsome seeing it up close is mind blowing the detail is fantastic, i waaaaaaant it even tho i cant drive the fooker

 

Life's good mate

Why don't you just fit an electric starter Steph?
Otherwise, isn't it gonna be expensive to keep importing Brom to start the bastard for you?

I remember trying to kickstart a Triton when I was about ten. Took ages to get back in the country....

 

Bernie: electric starters for Harley's weigh a ton, look like shit and I think it's suits the minimalistic and oldfashioned approach of this bike!

Triton's are a piece of piss to start! parallel twin! Had a T120R racer myself