1972 Harley Davidson FL, rollin rat bag of stuff purchased from Big Greg Hale @ MC Creations (see pic folder "as purchased")

Every part was rebuilt or modified or fabricated or blasted or powder coated or painted or new or something ...........

Build time 10 months - if you have not done something like this you will never realize how much effort goes into getting all this stuff together, not to mention how much running around goes into a custom build even if you are trying to use HD parts!! I am afraid to add up the receipts.

The goal was to build an early 70's Hot Rod with as many Harley Davidson parts as possible and to be able to clean it with a can of
WD-40!!

I would like to give a special thanks to Jeff Pike and Tommy "Road

Lizard" Graviano for their invaluable insight as to what was going on

with this style of bike in the early 70's and giving it the "Houston

Northside" touch! They are amazing...........

And a very special thanks to my friend Greg Hale, owner of MC Creations

for not just selling me the scoot but putting up with me being in his

shop every step of the way "supervising" (ha ha) the build, and also my

Bro Shane Cole who did all the disassembly, assembly, reassembly,

disassembly and final assembly of the bike (with a tiny bit of help from me, mostly over his shoulder). Greg has been doing this a long
time and has a great group of diverse friends and talent to assist anyone with building their dream bike.

Original vision and design by owner with finishing touches help from

many!

Frame, motor and tranny are from the original bike

89 inch Stroker Shovelhead w/ Stock Cases, kick only, S&S Flywheels,

Rods & Pistons, Andrews 6 Grind Cam, S&S Super B Carb, Dyna Ignition,

Headwork and lower end assembly by John Koehnle (pro Cane-lee). Final

motor assembly by Big Shane Cole.

Transmission is a stock 72 4 speed kick only ratchet top that was

completely gone through by Tommy Graviano with an extended kicker shaft

to clear the exhaust, stroker kick arm and highlighted with a "made in

the USA" brass kicker pedal (that will hurt you bad!!).

The motor and tranny are tied together with a vintage Phase 3 open

primary motor/tranny plate. The fins on the motor/tranny plate were pin

striped black by Greg's daughter Brittany Hale to follow the "all things mechanical" left side of the bike.

All the fabrication was done by Jeff Pike. Frame is stock with only a

couple of unnecessary brackets removed. The Swing arm is (was) stock and stretched 6 inches, addition of gussets with lightning holes and custom battery box. Custom fabricated regulator mount, rear struts, combination upper motor mount and hand shifter mount, hand shifter, oil bag mount, left hand side foot clutch, foot rest pulley guard and peg mount, rear fender mods and fender support w/ integral chain guard and
light mounts, seat pan and seat pan support, Peanut Sportster Tank mods. The chain guard is a one off piece fabbed in Stainless Steel by Jeff and the lightning holes machined by Stanley Fischer.

The exhaust is stock Shovelhead "Northside Tommy Taylor style". The head pipe is bone stock, the muffler has been cut down and the baffles

removed (don't tell Johnny Law). The head pipe and muffler were then

sent over to PolyDyn Performance Coatings and Ceramic coated satin black and satin silver. They sound and perform awesome.

Oil Tank is by Santee.

Other custom machined items by Stanley Fischer are all the wheel spacers which are brass, the aluminum front rotor spacers and a solid brass points cover (wow this thing is nice but it must weigh 5 lbs).

Front end
is stock 72 FL trees with a Stock 72 Nacel and Cow bells with

EVO Era tubes, Lower legs and calipers. The headlight is a late model

Tri Bar Halogen unit and the bucket and Trim Rings were modified by the

owner. The handlebar risers and cover are stock 72 FL with a set of 1"

Drag Bars cut and installed with a Vintage Sifton front brake master

cylinder. The mirror is a Paul Yaffe piece mounted in the end of the

handlebars by the owner. The kill switch mounted on the back of the

Nacel is another Tommy Graviano Northside brain child, it's just a set

of car points with a piece of leather stuck between the points which can be tied to a lanyard and walla......... instant kill switch. Far less expensive than a Pingel unit and just as functional.

The front brake calipers are stock EVO Era pieces and the rear caliper

is Performance
Machine, all rotors are by DNA.

The wheels are 80 Spoke Stainless Steel Diamond cut Landmark units 3

1/2" X 18's with a Metzeler 130 front and 150 rear.

The seat was another of my so called visions for the bike ...........

When Jeff was building the seat pan I told him to think "Lazyboy"

because I am not getting younger. I worked very hard to find some gaudy

looking Bass boat red metal flake vinyl from a Hot Rod shop in Fort

Wayne Indiana and then had Cy-Fair Upholstery cover the pan with as much gel as possible and then cover the thing. It's real comfortable and most everyone thinks it cool. Reminds me of one of my bicycles from the 60's.

The black paint job on the tank and rear fender was done by me with a

couple of cans of Duplicolor Satin Black (along with some special touches I
won't tell you about).

Just about everything else is powder coated either satin (primarily

satin) or gloss black. I think the hand shift lever is the only piece

that went to the chrome, well we sent some other pieces to the chromer

but that was for de-chrome!

Almost all the aluminum and stainless pieces have been grit blasted to

give them that flat look. You will have a hard time leaving a finger

print on this scooter. (I like it!)

The righteous pin striping is the work of none other than Jim

Carnifax........ he and I spent over two hours going over the colors,

design etc. This is some of Jim's best work.

The wiring was done by Stanley Fischer.

As far as riding the bike............ you launch it
from a dead stop

with the vintage HD Mousetrap Hand Clutch set-up and then use the foot

clutch from there, one forward and three back........ it's a grin from

ear to ear to ride this thing. Tommy Graviano also came up with an

ignition kill button for the gear shift knob so you don't have to use

the clutch (you don't tear things up either) at the drag strip, you can

run it just like the Rice Burner boys........ Sweet!

See the build

http://www.theclubhousemagazine.com/VideosPHB1.htm

 enjoy

DDD