Matt from the Machinehead blog (be sure to check it out. Lots of great stuff) finished up a very nice build of an 1950 Panhead.
He Writes in:
Hey steve...hope your doing well....I've just finished my latest bike....a 1950 panhead....I'm happy with the way it came out ...was lots of work but it rides beautifully....anyway in case you didn't catch it on the site here are some shots....guy from greasy kulture is going to do a piece on it.......my attention to the Mark 1 Lemans now....
Hope all is good
Matt
Thanks for the pics Matt. Like I posted on your comments I think it a very well balanced build. Looks like you could ride the tar out of it. Can't wait to see that Mark 1!!
Steve G sent me these a while back and they got lost in the shuffle. Sorry bout that.
I'm sure folks have noticed that I don't post many modern American cruisers. This is not from prejudice on my part. I like them fine. But there are so many sites already dedicated to them (that do it very well) so I tend to shy away. Anyway, this one caught my eye because it's got some really nice "go" touches without overdoing the "show". It looks to be a cruiser that you could ride the hell out of. Function and form and all that ... Thanks again Steve.
As opposed to the Italian Harleys we've seen in America.
Marco Writes in:
Hi, my name's Marco!
I come from italy, I send you some photos of my bike for your beautiful blog :)
Hopefully you like it ;)
Thanks Marco!
Had a request from the previous post to see more of the #9 harley in the background. I know I've posted this bike before but I don't get tired of looking at it.
By the way, the Google Search feature and the "word-cloud" really does work pretty well
I think I've hit a vein here. Judging by the response I'd say there's a lot of it going around!
Paul and Aaron sent in these 2 great bikes and great shots! Thanks gents!
Paul's 2000 883 on a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina with his son last year....
...and Aaron's Triumph Trophy 900 at Lake Almanor in 2003.
He's there every year and I never get tired of looking at his bike.
Sure it's a big corporate sponsored show bike (which I usually don't go in for) but the creative routing of the exhaust straight off the turbocharger is just too freaking cool.
UPDATE: From the comments. BikeEXIF mentions that the bike was built by Tramp Cycles and that there's an article on the bike over on PIPEBURN. Thanks much for the heads up and whle we're on the subject be sure to stop by BikeEXIF on a regular basis. Always excellent stuff over there.
Street Tracker, Bobber, Cafe... Whatever it is it's cool as hell. Nicest Sporty I've seen in a long while.
The thing I love most about custom motorcycles is that no matter how outlandish a potential idea may be someone somewhere will probably get around to building one. I'd wager that torque is NOT a problem with either of these bikes.
I don't post a lot of modern or custom Harleys on here. I promise you that it's not out of prejudice. I think Milwaukee makes em as good as anyone. There's just seems to be a lot of dedicated Harley based blogs going and most of them do it really well. But every now and then a real beauty catches my eye like this one sent in by reader Eddie Anderson.
Eddie Writes:
A friend of ours in California bought this bike brand new in 2002. It’s a 2003 100th Anniversary
Heritage SoftTail “Black Beauty”. We visited them in 2004, after he installed “many” extras, and I fell in love with the bike the minute I laid eyes on it. It was definitely the wheels that made it stand out. From that year on, every time we spoke to Jim I reminded him, or my wife reminded him for me (with a little coaching), to let me know if he ever decides to sell the bike.
Well, we never thought he would part with it, but in April of this year, three months before my birthday, Jim called my wife and said he was finally going to part with the bike. Two days later, she called him back and said “We’ll buy it”, but don’t tell Eddie. She had the bike shipped to a friend’s house, here in Washington State, and gave the bike to me for my 47th birthday. Mary definitely added a whole new definition to the word “Surprised”.
Hell of a nice gift! That wife of yours is definately a keeper! Thanks For the pics!
