Bilko wrote:Beautiful bike. Looks like a ton of mods on it, bet it sounds the nuts with that 2-1 pipe.
I've ridden Harleys since the late 70's and the 80" Shovel was my favourite.
My mate ran a 120" Shovel a few years back with an open primary and a 3" Primo belt. One night he ripped out of my local pub car park with me behind, picked up a small stone on the belt and it snapped in half. The belt went past my head like a bullet and landed about 40 feet away.
Your right about the mods, the only thing that hasn't been re-engineered is the 4 speed transmission, the exhaust isn't a 2 into 1, it just looks that way from that angle.
The clutch is on the lefthand twistgrip, the brakes are linked, I just wanted the cleanest set of bars out there, there are only two small switches which are for the horn & the dipswitch.
Tony Jarvis did most of the fabrication for me, I designed this coil mount/head steady & he knocked it up, there are over a dozen bits of stainless all tig welded together in that bit alone. The same attention to detail has been followed through with everything.
It's the little details that really make it special like the rear brake line is routed through the torque arm.
I like things to be clean looking as in uncluttered & plan the same sort of theme for the engine bay with the Demon.