Sunday In The Park...

Well on August 16th the Springville Rotary Club held there annual fundraiser called Sunday in The Park. This event raises money for the club so they can provide scholarships for local kids to attend college at UVU. It has always been a fun event that consists of live music, a great steak dinner, and a raffle of donated prizes. I have been going to Sunday in the park for about the last 15 years. Every year they have a small car show. This year Jerry Falkner got a hold of it and turned it into a HUGE car show. There were over 150 entries. It was great. It is held at Rotary Park up Hobblecreek canyon in Springville, which is a pristine setting for a car show in the mountains. I was lucky enough to win "Best of Show" for the motorcycles.


Trophies are good!

But not as good as this!!!

Art City Days Bike Show...

So I know it has been a while.

Back in June during the Art City Days festivities down here in Springville there was a bike show put on at Legends. It was the first show I was able to enter my Knucklehead in. It was a lot of fun! Unfortunately I had to work at SOS during most of the show, and right when I got off work the skies opened up and it looked like the end of the world. It rained and blew so hard that it knocked out the power.

They had some "old school" bikers that came to the show do the judging. They must have liked what we did. I won a trophy for "Most Radical" and I also won "Best of Show." I was flattered.

I "borrowed" some pictures off of a friends website that she took of the bike that day. So here is a taste of what it's all about from someone else perspective...

Super Slacker...

Well since I suck at blogging I am going to piggyback on Jeremy's blog and re-post his post... teehee

http://www.therealjeremyjones.com/blog/

Final assembly...

Well we finally got to start putting this bike back together. We got the tedious process of pulling strings through the inside of the frame to pull the wiring done. I have never been happier to have a ShopVac. After that mind numbing experience we had enough time to get the entire springer front end back together. I am happy to report that Merlin and I both still have two eyes in our heads...



Powder coated parts..


A sneak peek at some of the brass that had the patina work done..

Brass Tax...

So I finally got everything back from Metal Masters that they stripped and/or plated in brass. The stripped goods got handled nicely by the boys at Powder Extreme Coatings.
The brass however got turned over to the talented hands of Nathan Bennett. This is one talented kid. He patinas all the bronze work for artists like Jeff Decker and Gary Price. Not only that but he currently creates his own paintings on bronze plate "canvases" using only chemicals to patina the artwork on to the bronze. He did an awesome job turning my bright shiny polished brass into a look that I haven't ever seen on a bike before. This is going to be one crazy antiqued knucklehead...

Breakdown

So once again it has been a while since I have updated this. Sorry...

This is the condition that my bike has been in for the last month or so. I took everything we have been working on for the last 5 months and tore it all apart in 1 day. It just doesn't feel right to be able to break something down so fast that took so long to put together. Since that time I have had a lot of these parts stripped down and either brass plated or powder coated. I will post new pics soon of what it all looks like now.

Some before and afters...

A few shots of the old and new knucks...

Ho Ho Holy S&S...

Ok so it has been a little while...

On Christmas eve we got a little holiday surprise when my new motor showed up a month early. The new motor is an S&S kn93 93" Knucklehead. I can't say enough about the job that S&S has done with this motor. Wow! It is a night and day difference from the Exotica we had in before. This bike is going to be one mean machine...



I didn't know Santa Clause was a smart ass...





Like kids at Christmas, oh wait, it was...

The detail is incredible

The new power plant.