2007 Harley-Davidson Custom - Daaaaang!

Tell us about some of the other unique features of this bike.
I left everything pretty much exposed, except for the factory wiring for the fuel injection, which was the toughest thing to hide. It's got all Wilwood braking components, sprint car rotors and calipers with small pistons, and aluminum rotor hats. I had to machine some hub adapters for the automotive wheels so I could incorporate the belt drive pulley and rear brake setup on the single-sided swingarm. The velocity stack is a hand-made piece. And I went with a jockey shift with the classic Hurst four-speed shifter ball. The swingarm isn't a solid piece, it's a tube; those holes are sleeved and welded, then ground down flush. It's more or less an aesthetic rat rod thing, like if you had a drilled frame on a '32 Ford or something. The white pipes are to replicate the gasser era. If you look at old straight axle Willys and '55 Chevys with the frontends way up in the air, back in the '50s before ceramics, you always had high-temp white paint. A lot of people don't get it until they see pictures of the old gasser cars.

How does it ride?
It rides more like a sport bike, it doesn't ride like a typical Harley. You can lay it down and grind the pegs for sure. I like the stretched swingarm because the wheel isn't under your ass and you're more cradled between the wheels. So when the suspension is working, you don't feel it right underneath you, you feel it behind you. It's hard to really describe.

Well, it looks fun as hell. Maybe you could let us take it for a little test ride? The El Diablo Run is coming up, Mexico's got some good roads to test out the cornering and suspension...
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