OT motorcycles

I had it explained to me a Pan Shovel was Panhead cases with a Shovelhead top end . Panhead has a ribbed cam cover .
The 1966-69 Shovelhead was called a generator Shovel or slabside Shovel . The cam cover on the 1966-69 are smooth .

 

Looks cool but not sure I’d like to have a high speed roller chain that close to the family jewels

 

The first thing I thought of,,

 

^^^^Compared to my -71,wich I built in 1979-80 ish.

 

Not super old, but for the time a real pretty looking bike. 1979 Honda 750-F.

 

A few of mine....

And the beater

 

Think I recognize this guy,,,,,,,,

 

2007 Bonneville I picked up a while back

 

Ah yes, the ol' Shovster, Shovelhead heads and barrels on a Sportster lower end. Kinda cool concept, but from what I read, (50 years ago) didn't really give you anything a bored and stroked Sportster wouldn't do. My 1974 XLCH was pretty gnarly for being almost stock.

 

Hi John,

Not sure what you had read but this was built almost fifty years ago by a highly experienced rider.

When I had seen it at an old R. G. Canning show in Ventura, California I spent at least a half an hour looking at it and knew that my panhead was going to place second. It still exists to this day and about fifteen years ago I asked the owner if he rode it much and all he did was grin and say that "it's too much".

 

Hi Sky Six,,
I wasn't't referring to this one specifically as I'd never seen it before today. What I meant was 50 years ago I was poring over sales brochures from Trock, Strociek, S & S, and the like and the Shovster was an option from one of them, don't remember which. I always thought it was a cool bit of engineering, but way over my budget. I was welding up exercise machines for Nautilus Sports Medical in Lake Helen Florida and living on TV dinners and Budweiser.

 

How cool is this Rokon!
Automatic and a pull starter.