Everyone is invited to the Chief Blackhawk Antique Motorcycle Swap Meet! It takes place in Davenport Iowa at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds from August 30-September 1. There will also be an Antique Flat Track Race Friday night! PM me for more information Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Nice beemer. Love that fairing. 20 years ago my friend totaled his R60, I bought the pile and completely rebuilt it. A couple years ago I fabbed a subframe for a sidecar rig so I could ride with my family. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I’ll be the guy on a green Kawasaki mule hauling parts out to people’s cars and trucks for them. My Dad and I are members of the host club. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
That one started out as an afterthought, I bought it in a package deal with the bike I REALLY wanted... which I still haven't finished. It started out looking like this. Here's what the bike I really wanted that day has looked like for way too many years. It started out looking a lot like the red bike above. And the one I'm building from parts I have left over from the first two singles.
I've always missed my Scout (post #1), so when a friend passed away this year, a friend I went swap meeting with while building his Scout, I bought it from the estate a month ago. Been on several rides, fun doing the tank shift suicide clutch again.
Some beautiful bikes here! This is an old CJ750 I built a few years back, using original BMW parts. Plunger frame, original trans mount hand / foot shift. With due regard for the OPs pre-'65 stipulation, I would like to include a few pics of my post-'65 Harley FLH to exhibit how a later shovelhead can be built on a reasonable budget to approximate the look of a panhead for those who've been otherwise priced out of a pan or knuckle. Until the early '80s, Harley big twins would readily accept many parts intended for much older bikes. In fact, most swingarm frame parts are a direct fit going back through '58 and many interchangeable mechanical parts go back even further than that. I see newer shovelheads in my local NJ Craigslist selling for only a few thousand dollars with pans, knuckles and solo flatheads starting at $10k. Screw what people say about AMF bikes. They're on par with anything before or since at a fraction of the price. Shovelheads imo, are the best kept secret of vintage bikes...I bought this FLH for the whopping sum of $3k as in the picture with the fairing and saddlebags
My 1960 Triumph pre-unit that I'm building into a drag bike. I just got the M&H slick and rim mounted, my son rebuilt and cleaned the front end, I am in the process of mounting the small blower and modifying an S&S carburetor with a Holley bowl for more fuel reserve. I think it's turning out okay. I want it to look semi-period correct. eriod correct.
Heck Ya! That thing is sweet! Never had a trike but my brother in law did. First time my sister invited us to meet him I got a look at it: Harley 45" servicar with 12" over springer, love seat and canopy with dingle balls. It was the '70s.. Dang hippies. Been playing around with the Scout I got from my deceased pal. He had it sorta chopperish, I prefer the dirt track look. So..lower bars, headlight and risers, Bates seat in place of that suede one, 19" front wheel in place of the 21. Playing around with tank decals and stripes. Not cray about the chrome forks, might make 'em black.
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