We took a weekend trip out to Palm Springs to find the famous Nude Bowl. Formerly an abandoned nudist colony all thats left is a pool and some other items to skate. Its a rutted 2 mile dirt road to get out here and the pool is aggressive. Made for an memorable weekend with my dudes Adam on the shovelhead and Paul on the Yellow pan.
Some photos from a shoot for Vans Girls featuring my 1997 Evo chopper ridden by my friend and ripper Becky Goebel! Photos to be used for Vans Girls P.o.P fall Campaign.
Photos by Adri Law.
my best friend Skyler has been collecting parts for a little while and finally got enough together to start putting it together. Spent the past couple weeks after work getting all the fab work taken care of. A few more things to make then ready to be broken down for paint and chrome.
I have been dreading adding the fifth trans mount which normally mounts from the frame to the transmission and ruin the nice look of the transmission almost floating in the frame rails. So i came up with this way of adding the fifth mount to the transmission mounting plate so it has the mount it needs but keeps the flow of the frame.
Very happy with how all the parts are coming together on this build so far. The list of parts to make is getting shorter.
Been excited to get to this part of the build to make this idea happen for my headlight. I love the look of bullet lights tucked in between the springs so i took two of them and welded them together to give them a new look.
Really happy with the outcome.
Metal seat pan with the foam all shaped up for the shovelhead. swooped the back foam on the seat to match up with the swoop on my fender.Should look nice wrapped in leather aganst the paint.
Top engine mount all finished out ready for chrome.
Working on getting things finished before moving onto the next details. Added some rings to the lower mounts on the sissybar to give it some more shape. Basic concept was to match the circle details on the axle plates so its all consistent. Still need to metal finish but all smoothed out for now.
Pulled the bike down off the bench to check how everything is working out so far. Will be finishing off everything that has been done so far before moving onto the next details.
Mid controls all mounted up tight underneath the motor.
After machining all the material, the extra pieces needed to complete the mid controls were cut and shaped and all welded together. Keeping everything natural and curvy shaped to match the other curves on the bike.
On this build i wanted to spend a little extra time and machine some hopefully unique looking material for my controls, shifter, mounts etc. and wanted it to match my springer rear leg shape.
Started out with round stock in various diameters and began by machining two flats somewhat like DD shaft. After i figured out where the material was going to be bent and machined groves so that the outside radius of each piece would have the groove detail facing out.
Received my front end from Jasin Phares of Phares cycle Parts who hand makes these insane springer. He also makes a big twin style narrow springer as well.
These are incredibly well made and im real stoked to have one for this build.
Some progress photos of the frame for my 69 shovelhead Peoples Champ entry.
Finally able to make some progress on the frame for my Peoples Champ entry after having to take a few weeks off.
-Finished out the rear lower legs and rear transmission cross member and threaded stanchions. Also started cutting out templates for all the gussets and cut out the neck gussets.
Should be ready to weld up the frame this week and get this thing out of the jig and start making some moves.
The Turquoise Terror. Full build i finished early 2015 to take to Born free 7.
Featured in issue 30 of Showclass Magazine & Issue 63 of Dice Magazine.
Photos by Josie Farrior, Mark Kirkland, and Colin Nearman.
Big push forward to get the main loop of the frame done. Bent up the single down tube first by putting it through the ring roller the give it a gradual curve and the in the tubing bender to finish off the shape.
Starting to look like a frame. got the rear upper wishbones bent and shaped up in place and the pieces for the lower legs bent. Set the motor in place ready for the downtube.
Love the look of having all the tubing curved.
Got a start on the frame i am building with the help of my good friend Ty Branum.
I will be building a single downtube frame with as much rolled steel a possible to give the frame a nice evenly flowed look instead of the abrupt lines stock frames have.
This frame will be stock dimensions to a 1958 panhead and feature castings that resemble a stock frame.
