Caddy style headlight replaced the classic round. I kinda like this look for this bike. Clean wiring behind the oil tank. Look, I even found those little red rubber cover things for the circuit breaker! Slightly cracked cat's eye winkin' at you. Yeah, yeah, I don't wanna hear about it - it has turn signals. Overhead shot of motor and wiring - still looks pretty messy. "Aircraft" style manifold clamps and big-ass rubber o-rings might actually seal this antique up.

So I had gotten the motor back from Scott's and it was just sitting there in the garage - I kinda have some back issues these days (nothing that 30 or 40 painkillers a day won't cure) so me lifting it up and putting it onto the frame was out of the question. Trash lives a good distance from my house and I didn't feel like bothering him, so I waited until a sunny Sunday when I was going to go for a ride with my buddies DJ and Robert. In a cunning move, I waited until they were at the house and then I invited them in for coffee - little did they know I had them pegged as my substitute engine installers. There's something about the moment that the motor goes in the frame - it's all just pieces and bullshit up to that point. That's when it becomes a bike and begins to reveal it's potential - even before the motor fires up, this is when it starts to be real. When I built the softail with Trash - we called his significant other KC into the garage for the motor installation because she really digs watching the motor go in. There's some kinda spiritual thing that happens when those four bolts get tightened down.... More>