My new (to me) wheels

[25Horseplay]

Zanzer, what kind of motorcycle is that? It looks shiney!

[Zanzer]

It's a 1998 883 Sportster. It's really shiney! I had just finished polishing on it for like 3 hours...whew! We are showing it and a 1947 Knucklehead FL chopper at the Easyriders bike show in Charlotte this weekend. I'm gonna get some pics of them to tomorrow to post up. I was gonna try to take some today but the show was packed!

[25Horseplay]

Cool, I want to see the Knuk and the Sporty. I have a Fatboy myself, I did have a 883 that had alot of work on it before.

[Zanzer]

The Fatboy has always been one of my favorite bikes. I think it's because it reminds me of the old 50's FL Pans with that big front tire drool

Here's the Sporty. Basically a bolt-on bike but it rides and handles like a dream. We're getting ready to do a 1200 kit on it soon.



Here's the old Knuck. It's still on the 47 frame and has the original 47 springer that was lengthened for the chop. It's been together for about 12 years now and it's a daily driver. We were one of the VERY few participants at the show to ride our bikes out



We were the ONLY bike there with a sissy bar. And they call it a "bike show"


Closeup of the tank

[lanemeyer14]

Did you do the sweet tank paint too? I wouldn't be surprised if you did!

[Zanzer]

No Sir, one thing I will never claim to be is an artist. I screw up stick figures...LOL

The guy who did that is an amazing local air brush artist who's done a couple of tanks for us. We had tell tell him "don't make it too pretty" on this one because we didn't want it to look out of place on an old school bike like this. We wanted it to look like something a biker would have done back in the day.

[25Horseplay]

Nice bikes, I love the knuk! I had a 883 Sporty bored to 1200, fat tank, lowered, chrome all the bolt on stuff. Sold it a couple years ago and bought my Fatboy last year. Here is a link to my Fatboy.

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21572&highlight=fatboy

[Zanzer]

SWEET RIDE!!

My next project is a wrecked 98 Sportster 1200 Custom that I picked up at the local swap meet for CHEAP. After that I'm gonna start looking for a Shovel engine to put on a rigid frame. Hopefully by that time I'll have my frame jig done and I can fab my own frame for it. I want to build one from the ground up where I make as many parts for it as I can without having to resort to buying aftermarket.