Harley Snow Racer

[Mutley]

Built in Hamburg, it could make the local weather conditions here a bit more fun! :cool

Full details here

this classy ‘Snow Racer’ is inspired by 1930s race bikes. The heart of the Snow Racer is a story in itself: it’s a 1946 U model engine fitted with 1936 VLH cylinders, giving a capacity of 80ci. The bottom end has been completely overhauled, with new bearings and refined balancing. The heads are from a 1948 ULH, reworked to improve performance and provide better cooling.

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

I think sitting there on that lovely wooden floor in those cool loft style surroundings is the best place for it!

Lovely looking thing though!

 

[DrFarkoff]

I think I'd want studded tyres rather than chains

I had a chain break on me once and come up and hit me on the back!!! That was enough!

Nice bike tho

 

[Ogmios]

Obviously built by someone that's never actually ridden a Bike with no front mudguard.
It's a good way to pebbledash your face.
DAMHIK

 

[Mutley]

I know lots of people who have no mudguard on the front of their bike

 

[shedend59]

Built in Hamburg, it could make the local weather conditions here a bit more fun! :cool

Full details here

That's the dogs lower regions

 

[Ogmios]

I know lots of people who have no mudguard on the front of their bike

As a stoopid yoof -i worked as a messenger in an Ad agency, i rode a Bike over Winter with no front mudguard.
Pebbledashed me face every time it rained, gained the complexion of a smallpox victim and got chronic bronchitis as well.*

*admittedly it says more about me than the lack of mudguard!

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

I know lots of people who have no mudguard on the front of their bike

I suspect they don't ride year round and/or do many miles

Re the bike I'm not sure what to make of it? It's well put together but then there are some weird touches such as the front down tube not being 'de-lugged' and that clutch basket off a tastelessly blinged dry clutch Ducati just looks weird Love the pipes though

Andres

 

[Mutley]

I suspect they don't ride year round and/or do many miles

hardly the point of a bike like this

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

hardly the point of a bike like this

Absolutely

Andres

PS So, why's it got snow chains on then

 

[Mutley]

PS So, why's it got snow chains on then

I'd suggest it's probably to annoy people like you

At a base point the whole purpose of a custom bike is to make people have a reaction. It doesn't matter whether it's practical, comfortable or sensible. For some it doesn't even have to be tasteful. I guess this one has achieved precisely that

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

I'd suggest it's probably to annoy people like you

At a base point the whole purpose of a custom bike is to make people have a reaction. It doesn't matter whether it's practical, comfortable or sensible. For some it doesn't even have to be tasteful. I guess this one has achieved precisely that

With all due respect you seem to think you have an exclusive 'understanding' or unique perspective of customs. I have, in the past, built my own and have had a bike exhibited at Kent so feel I 'get' them. We just have different tastes - vive le difference! My comments were mostly tongue in cheek anyway

Andres

 

[Mutley]

With all due respect you seem to think you have an exclusive 'understanding' or unique perspective of customs. I have, in the past, built my own and have had a bike exhibited at Kent so feel I 'get' them. We just have different tastes - vive le difference! My comments were mostly tongue in cheek anyway

Andres

My opinion is unique, just like everybody else'

As for feeling I have an 'exclusive understanding' just because I've given an opinion: I think you might be trying to make me assume a mantle I'm uninterested in taking

I'd have thought someone who's had such experience of custom bikes would either have greater respect for someone else' work and wider taste

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

Nah, not at all. But you have rolled out that same or similar line a few times and my impression rightly or wrongly is that cos this is mostly a community of GS riders you feel you have a unique perspective on customs and Harley's n particular?

Reading back what I wrote there I sound bit of a pompous twat so apologies for that. As you say we all have different views and tastes. Me, I love customs, but mostly practical ones. I can appreciate bikes like that (although as already stated, I think it's flawed) but it's not my cup of tea.

Vive le difference!

Andres

 

[Mutley]

Nah, not at all. But you have rolled out that same or similar line a few times and my impression rightly or wrongly is that cos this is mostly a community of GS riders you feel you have a unique perspective on customs and Harley's n particular?

Reading back what I wrote there I sound bit of a pompous twat so apologies for that. As you say we all have different views and tastes. Me, I love customs, but mostly practical ones. I can appreciate bikes like that (although as already stated, I think it's flawed) but it's not my cup of tea.

Vive le difference!

Andres

The written word is a difficult one to communicate in, no apologies needed. I'm allegedly the most pompous tw@ on the site according to a couple of high post count 'contributors'

As for the line, it's more of an amalgam of thoughts I've distiller from the ramblings of other high profile builders. I think it works though, especially in an environment where the majority buy their bikes on practical rather than aesthetic grounds

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

The written word is a difficult one to communicate in, no apologies needed. I'm allegedly the most pompous tw@ on the site according to a couple of high post count 'contributors'

As for the line, it's more of an amalgam of thoughts I've distiller from the ramblings of other high profile builders. I think it works though, especially in an environment where the majority buy their bikes on practical rather than aesthetic grounds

........and yeah, I sort of agree on where you're coming from. I think the clue though is in the word 'custom'. To me that means tailor made by the individual for the individual, however that may ultimately translate itself into the finished bike. Where the 'built for a reaction' ethos falls down (for me) is, for example, an OOC type 'show chop'. Defo gets a reaction but ultimately shite

Andres

 

[Mutley]

........and yeah, I sort of agree on where you're coming from. I think the clue though is in the word 'custom'. To me that means tailor made by the individual for the individual, however that may ultimately translate itself into the finished bike. Where the 'built for a reaction' ethos falls down (for me) is, for example, an OOC type 'show chop'. Defo gets a reaction but ultimately shite

I think of OCC and the like in the same group as other factory built customs these days. There was a time when they were doing some interesting work but it's all a production line now.

I'm building my own bobber at the moment. It's nothing out of the ordinary and it'll certainly not be extreme. It will get a reaction though, because most of the general public won't understand and most bikers will hate it. The reaction from the custom world might be a little underwhelming though