Perfect Patina

This thing has the perfect weathered body I love it. Get it here

Leaf Springer

Weird

Happy Belated Valentines Day

Now on the clock.

Lee from Hambone Kustoms.

Home Town

@patbastid posted this pic on instagram. Like he says, you gotta live here to feel the magic. Anybody able to ID the location based on the angle of the Bess?

Cafe

I usually would plasma cut the dishes in the side of the tanks flip them and then reweld them back in. But this seemed to do a great job. And with a little putty she will look smooth and fast. The stance of the bike is super killer real aggressive. Should have a whack of parts in tomorrow so probably have more pics too.


















Lee from Hambone Kustoms.

One for the ladies

So it's valentines day and although this hallmark holiday is usually all but ignored in our house I thought I'd give you guys something that you and your ladies can both enjoy. As some of you know Mrs. Ninjas is a ceramic artist and creates amazingly macabre figurines with agendas. A few years back Carole took me out to Warman to meet an artist named Clint Neufeld. Clint makes ceramic casts of engine parts and then reassembles the entire engine as a ceramic sculpture. The result is fantastic. These life sized motors, tranny's, axles and more are exquisite.


Clint's got a show going up in early March in the Edmonton area.

If you're out that way make sure you take the little lady out to see some culture and check these things out.

Pointless waste.

Lee from Hambone Kustoms.

Polaris Rescue

Went For a ride yesterday and it was a lot of fun until the sled I was on started making a grinding noise and then stopped going. Something in the chain drive came apart. So we went back and got a Bravo with a sled to rescue it.

And of course we naturally stopped for a beer on the way back

Cafe racer rear frame loop

Building a cafe racer.....



Lee from Hambone Kustoms.

Bravo!

Keno's been working up north flyin' snow geese and dropping fuel, pepsi, and ripple chips on every ice flow north of La Ronge for a while now. He's been buggin' me to lend him the Murder Van so he can transport an uber mule of a sled up there so he has something to putt around on until spring. But I'm pretty sure the Murder Van's not quite ready for the abuse that a northern trek would put on'er and I can't afford to not have it running in it's optimal Muleage state. However, today Davey and I sprung the Yammy Bravo Mule from the ground so it can make a mystical journey up north later this week.

First we borrowed the ever faithful Elmer, Keno's community Silverado and head out to the valley where Bravo Mule lays baked in the sun and dirt. But of course Keno hooks us up with an empty truck, so first stop is the 7-11 for gas and ...welll... toquitos of course.


We get out to the farm ok and try starting the Bravo Mule, but it's not happening. I mean even if this thing does make it up north I can't see it getting him too far. It's enough to make even Lee a little nervous. Optimal muleage is one thing, but...

So we hoist it into the back, throw a chain around the skis and head back to town.


Feeling pretty good about the whole thing and thinking we'd made good time, we figure this means Keno owes us a frosty beverage.

So after all that, I think a slow and condescending clap is in order...Bra...vo!

Factory experimentation, DAH!

By 1929 Harley and Davidson were not exactly collecting #1's on the hills or on the tracks like they were in the earlier part of the century. That was possibly the reasoning behind them putting out an OHV 45" race motor called the DAH. This motor was first featured in a factory built hillclimber which there were several versions of
between 1929 and 1932. Some notable features of the bike include dual exhaust heads, trailing-link forks, a single gear transmission, and a Schebler racing carb to feed the alcohol burning engine. Ultimately the experimentation worked and in 1932 Joe Petrali won the National Hillclimb Championship with a double down-tube frame design.



Although I haven't found much info about this motor being used in street or flat track models, I have found a few pics that suggest these were produced at one point or another.


Note: some historians (drunk old bike dudes) credit this successful hillclimbing OHV bike with the popularity the Knucklheads recieved in '36. Although the two engines share nearly zero design traits, some believe that HD had proven it's ability to build OHV engines by first racing one up a 45 degree grade.