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Hogs, Anyone?
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On the Inside
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Nice. Far too loud for me, though. I prefer to pedal my bikes.
On the Inside
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There was a guy who lived down the block with a straight pipe Harley. He always idled quietly down the street a few blocks before lighting it up. A courtesy to the direct neighbors.
1989 1200 Sportster FLH High perf cams,port work,rejetting, polished aluminum cases and programmable ignition.
This is the bike that broke my brain
Next transformation is to a bobber with a springer front end
This is my custom machined air filter I made for it
This is the bike that broke my brain
Next transformation is to a bobber with a springer front end
This is my custom machined air filter I made for it
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My tribute to the riders who wear the gypsy leather
https://www.aspiescentral.com/media/albums/scooter-trashcan.227/
https://www.aspiescentral.com/media/albums/scooter-trashcan.227/
Some people ride, and some people like me just collect T shirts. I haven't owned a bike since 1988. I was at bike week a couple years ago. I wouldn't mind taking a bike back there. I'd have to go with a V rod, or a Heritage Classic, 50's green and cream paint job, wide white walls, spoke wheels, leather bags with fringe, heavy on the chrome, basic windshield.
There were two splinter roads less than 25 miles from where I live
Hide one in the woods from her if you are able to wipe the smile off your face after riding it
Hide one in the woods from her if you are able to wipe the smile off your face after riding it
She says that I am to old for motorcycles. Unfortunately, she is probably right. When I did have toys like that, it was never just one. Now I have a armory.
A hidden scooter in the woods and the birth of a builder:
I cobbled together my first motorized two wheeler when I was 13 because I wanted to ride a bike of my own and not have to take turns with my friends. I found a minibike frame in the trash and added to it what I could find laying around. I wasn't allowed to have one,so I made one out of junk and kept it hidden in the woods
My minibike had a manual clutch
Since I wasn't allowed to have the damned thing,asking for a $20 centrifigal clutch was out of the question,so I copied the neighbor's lawn tractor clutch and used a v belt tensioned clutch and primary drive. The throttle assembly wasn't available either,so I tore my buddies apart to copy it and made one that must have weighed five pounds out of 2 inch barstock and some heavy walled tubing.Looking back on it now,it gave the bike a horrible death wobble at times due to the weight flinging the handlebars,but that throttle would have survived a 1,000 pound bomb blast
The rear drive assembly was an old Plymouth driveshaft emergency brake from the 1940s,an eight inch trailer wheel and tire that was mounted to a crude hub that was drilled for a sprocket that was all found in a scrap yard.My chain was pieced together with five master links that were the short ends of other installs gathered from my friends. The front wheel was off a rusted out wheelbarrow. The three horse Briggs & Stratton was heisted off a broken rototiller and smoked like a train. It didn't have a recoil starter either,it was an older loose rope wrapped one that you had to tie to the bike so you didn't lose it.
It was very heavy and wasn't really fast,but it was mine
My sister busted on me for having it so I had to show it to my parents. My mom was really torqued and demanded that it be destroyed immediately because she had said that I would never ride one because they were dangerous and started going ballistic on my dad for building it for me. He explained to her he had nothing to do with the build and if I had built it,how could she take it away. Then he looked it over and spotted an issue with the jackshaft mount engineering...he made me the parts I needed to make it stay together the next day
I cobbled together my first motorized two wheeler when I was 13 because I wanted to ride a bike of my own and not have to take turns with my friends. I found a minibike frame in the trash and added to it what I could find laying around. I wasn't allowed to have one,so I made one out of junk and kept it hidden in the woods
My minibike had a manual clutch
Since I wasn't allowed to have the damned thing,asking for a $20 centrifigal clutch was out of the question,so I copied the neighbor's lawn tractor clutch and used a v belt tensioned clutch and primary drive. The throttle assembly wasn't available either,so I tore my buddies apart to copy it and made one that must have weighed five pounds out of 2 inch barstock and some heavy walled tubing.Looking back on it now,it gave the bike a horrible death wobble at times due to the weight flinging the handlebars,but that throttle would have survived a 1,000 pound bomb blast
The rear drive assembly was an old Plymouth driveshaft emergency brake from the 1940s,an eight inch trailer wheel and tire that was mounted to a crude hub that was drilled for a sprocket that was all found in a scrap yard.My chain was pieced together with five master links that were the short ends of other installs gathered from my friends. The front wheel was off a rusted out wheelbarrow. The three horse Briggs & Stratton was heisted off a broken rototiller and smoked like a train. It didn't have a recoil starter either,it was an older loose rope wrapped one that you had to tie to the bike so you didn't lose it.
It was very heavy and wasn't really fast,but it was mine
My sister busted on me for having it so I had to show it to my parents. My mom was really torqued and demanded that it be destroyed immediately because she had said that I would never ride one because they were dangerous and started going ballistic on my dad for building it for me. He explained to her he had nothing to do with the build and if I had built it,how could she take it away. Then he looked it over and spotted an issue with the jackshaft mount engineering...he made me the parts I needed to make it stay together the next day
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