BILLY LANE’S V/G-13 Twin Front Head Twin Cam! Chuck Prince of Darkness Palumbo’s Magneto rebuild leftovers David Mann FROM Chopperfest N ORWAY TO Fab Kevin: CHARGE!!! 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THE HORSE Page 3 THE HORSE Page 4 Backtalk ................................. 6 Talkback ...............................10 Arsen Investigator ......11 Chompin-Editorial .......12 spACEy knows how ........14 George The Painter ......16 You Lose! .............................18 Dangerous UA ..................24 Softail in drag 2.5 .......... 30 David Mann Show .........32 Chuck’s Leftovers ...............40 Dream On-Baker ..............44 Jon Towle Art ...................48 Billy Lane’s V/G-13..........50 Shop Rags ...........................56 Lil’ Miss Scare-All ..........60 BKC Tornado relief ......66 Lucas Magneto Rebuild .....70 Samurai Chopper .............................74 Charlie the Nomad ......80 From a little Seed ............82 Boomer ................................86 ProCO 2016 ............................88 ACO 2016 ..............................90 Lil’ Hot Rod ......................94 Tattoo Corner ..................96 Tech-Fabricator Kevin ...98 Austin Johnson ............104 Horse’s Mouth ...............108 March 2016 TAIL OF CONTENTS Model: Elizabeth -IG @daytonababy85 THE HORSE Page 5 Warmer memories Meet the Hellbitch My 01 Sporty 1200, picture from a ride with my girl. We live on the Minnesota/Wisconsin border. Frame is raked Hey there guys, my name is Aaron and this is my 82 7 degrees, lowered all around. Twisted spoke 21” front FXE nicknamed the Hellbitch that I built last winter. wheel, spoked Electraglide front wheel re-purposed for the It was basically a rolling basket case when I got it off rear (thanks for the write up Fab Kevin!) Mooneyes bits, a Craigslist deal. I did everything at home in my shop No School Choppers taillight, 18” sissy bar with K&Q style myself, other than the paint and lower end balancing. seat. My wife and I will ride all day on this, no complaints! Oil tank is built from a couple of fire extinguishers It now has Roland Sands bars on it -Ty Ricker and foot clutch linkage from old stainless chain TIG welded together. It is my daily ride to work when the weather is obviously better than in the photo! I would have submitted it sooner but I was to damn busy riding it to stop and take pictures! Thanks for a great mag!! I find comfort in knowing there are more greasy fingered freaks like me screaming down two lanes on machines they built themselves!! - Aaron. Denison Iowa First Build Here is the Sportster I’ve been building over the last three years. It’s the first bike I’ve ever built and I’m learning a lot on it. It’s a 47 industries hard tail and it started off as a 2000 Sportster Custom. -Jonathan Full Throttle Build Not a rat, dammit! This is my 1971 Ironhead I Built specifically for your My 1976 Shovelhead running project. “Project” not show at the Full Throttle Saloon out in Sturgis at the 75th. “Rat Bike!” Really like your mag and the show is always a highlight I bought it off an old drunk looking to pay some legal of our Sturgis trip. It was an honor to participate two bills for next to nothing. Thanks to Harley at Guthery years in a row. -Brad Nelson Customs here in Edmond, OK, I’ve got this far along on it. Still has a long way to go. But it’s reliable and dependable. Cheers, -Erik Killer Bike Hi I’m Phylo from Belfast, Northern Ireland. This bike started life as a £200 (US$ 300) just-about-runner punted out on the Internet, bought to chop. When I cleaned it and de-rusted it, under the grime was a near-catalogue spec late-year GPZ550, still fit for 110 on the road - so I rode it for five years until it tried to kill me... and I started hacking and cutting in revenge. Sadly.... I made it faster, lighter and more reliable in the process! Adding all the bits I’d saved for the chop project, and a coat of matt black every time the rust breaks through, it’s an everyday rider living right beside the Irish Sea - the sissy bar is great for strapping on bags of groceries! And it runs regularly with the N.I. Rats, a group of like-minded individuals in Northern Ireland into persuading old bikes to live on beyond the “pretty” stage in their mechanical lives. -Phylo THE HORSE Page 8 THE HORSE Page 9 Talk Back Mistakes and Choices By Englishman A quick googling of his name Certainly people like Indian will bring up equally positive and Larry or English Don or many negative results. The works he other icons of the chopper world did for charity mixed in arrests were not immune from poor for selling cocaine to undercover choices. In the music world, we all cops (to be fair, that sounded like know of stars that have made poor a set-up) and his jail time for tax choices when it came to lifestyle evasion. None of which is really and drug habits. out of line for somebody with ‘celebrity’ status. Just a couple When Dan Haggerty died, of understandable mistakes. there were many glowing tributes to him all over social media, I It was his choice to couldn’t resist commenting how deliberately sell the two or I thought his memory had been three “authenticated” Captain a little sullied by his previous America replicas as the real actions and in general, I was thing that saddens me the most. chastised roundly by a few who were only aware of the positive I’m guessing that most of aspects of his life and looking at it s I write this, Dan our motorcycle heroes have had now, I probably deserved it. Haggerty, famous both mistakes and poor choices for his television at one time or another. Whilst I have immersed myself in Arole as “Grizzly Adams” mistakes are often avoidable, chopper lore as part of my job shit happens. We’ve all been here at The Horse and sometimes which ran for two seasons there, found ourselves in a I just don’t realize that it’s really (1977-78), has recently position that makes us question not that important to everybody. passed away. Although the “how the hell did this happen?” When I first discovered that general public knew him Poor choices are something else Benny Hardy was solely behind from this role, the chopper entirely. the construction of the Easy Rider bikes, I considered it my duty to community is connected There are multiple levels tell everyone that would listen. I via a very different route. of poor choices of course. thought it was a grave miscarriage Deciding to run a red light and of justice when the racist white To briefly recount, Mr. then almost getting clipped by motorcycle press in the 70s Haggerty worked as a film extra and another vehicle is something a floated the idea that Dan Haggerty “motorcycle wrangler” during the bunch of us have probably done actually built this bikes. Mr. shooting of the movie Easy Rider. at one time or another. Another Haggerty never dispelled those As near as I can tell, a “motorcycle example could be drinking way rumors. In retrospect, it really wrangler” would be responsible more than you should when you wasn’t his job to do so.