A year or so back I saw these groovy bars on Joe Mason’s Panhead and I learned from Chris that they’re Holy Z’s. A style that was built by Drag Specialties in MN back in the 70’s when Jim Preisler was doing their marketing. Today there are a few places that are making reproduction copies…
Tag: Bobber
The Chopper on it’s Own 2 Legs
Brad’s in Milwaukee at Harley’s 110th, others are in Davenport rummaging through piles of priceless springers for Wassell tanks and I’m at the desk basking under the fluorescent lights – so it seemed like a fitting time to resurrect the internet personality. Last entry was deraking this gnarly ’52 wishbone frame and something like 4…
De-raking a Panhead Wishbone Frame
I recently acquired an early 50’s wishbone panhead frame from my friend Eric for my winter’s shovelhead build. He set me up with a solid deal on it as it needed some work to bring back to life. At some point in its colorful past a few passionate drinkers and drug users decided to make…
Plans for a Harley Motor Stand
If you have more time and tools than cash make yourself a stand for your V-Twin before it comes out of the frame, if you don’t already own one. They also make great stocking-stuffers. The plans were put together by an e-human called Starbound on the Club Chopper forum… I don’t hang there and found…
The Shovelhead Chop Build – In Prep for Born Free V
I mentioned a few posts back that I scored a shovelhead roller earlier in the year and am building a bike before Born Free 5. It’s a cone motor sitting in a Paughco frame that had some accessories I wanted to run anyway like the horseshoe oil tank and open primary, which is a modest…
Harley Choppers in Minnesota – Adding a Steed to the Stable
With December about to close its doors for the year I had to get it in gear and find something more than a front end to call my chopper build and ride to Born Free 5 in the spring. Justin reached out to the St. Paul crowd through Zac Doom from Heavy Clothing and got…
Jesse James Biker Build-Off Instagram Photos
…and for my homies with flip phones, here are Instagram photos of The Pope of Welding’s bike. Photos from Jesse James himself.
Discovery Channel Biker Build-Off Photos 2012 – OCC & Paul Jr.
I was having a difficult time finding the photos of all the bikes in one place so here are a few I pooled together out of interest. The better bikes are on my previous post. I don’t have any photo credits and apologize so if you know who they belong to chime in and I’ll…
For Those About to Bob…
I saw this some time back on the Haints blog and got a kick out of it. This had to be a blueprint on how to major in badassness back in ’54. With these simple modifications you could build a period correct bobber when the only period you had was correct, assuming that was your…
Glorious Joy
My friend Stanislav Stanislavov Stantchevski decided to try motorcycling as a hobby and picked up this rigid ’82 GS650. It’s a gnarly machine and he reported nothing but glorious joy after his first ride on a bike while driving it 50 miles home. 4 carbs for his pleasure and Stan is becoming quite the mechanic…
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