I have gotten a couple of suggestions that I start a post to share my Freewheeler project. So here goes…
First off, not everybody is going to like what I am doing. That is ok. Everybody doesn’t like something….
I started my love affair with Harleys when I was 15 when I got a 1947 Servicar basket case (junk in a box for those unfamiliar with the phrase) and built a beater bike that I had all through high school. It had swap meet ape hangers, VW steel wheel fat tires with no fenders, a stock (shaky) springer front end, stock oil/gas combo tanks, a plywood and swap meet king and queen seat supported by a vinyl covers box with a 35” homemade gold spray painted sissy bar and a brush and rattle can paint job…. Anybody that looked at it thought it was basically a POS…. But through my eyes… it was my chopper…..and I LOVED THAT THING ��
Things have changed a bit for me since 1976 and when the Freewheeler came out a couple of years ago, I could shake off wanting to build one the way I wished I could have built my 1947 beater trike. In April, I decided to go for it. This is the concept (forgive the bad photoshop job).
Here is a list of what is collected/built and going on the trike
Modifications
Font End
· Custom Wide Glide Styled Reversion Triple Trees – M&D -Chicago, IL
o (Eliminating tin covers and headlight)
o Added fat tube covers between trees and down to lower legs (replacing cans)
· 21” x 3.5” 80 Spoke (Twisted Spoke) Wheel - Paughco
· Metzler ME 888 120/70-21 Marathon Tire
· 21” Wrapper front Fender (Modified profile) with custom machined mounts/spacers – Klock Werks
· 1’ x 18” Rise Smart Gimp Ape Hanger Handlebars – Nash Motorcycle
· Biltwell Thunder Riser
· HD MoCo Chromed Lower Legs, Calipers, Axel Nut Covers and Rotors
· Rivco Mirrors with Turn Signals
· HD MoCo Chromed Controls and Nostalgic Grips
· Willy Shiny Wheel Spacers (to cover rotor bolts)
· Clear Coated Braided Steel Brake and Clutch Lines
Rear Tires/Wheels
· Mickey Thompson Sportsman Radials 29x18 R-15 LT
· Cragar 08/61 S/S 15x14
· Wheel Adapter USA 4 x 4.25 to 5 x 4.5 x 2” Thick ***
o *** REALLY IMPORTANT*** Cragar Wheels are not bolt ons with this type of adapter. You have to machine a hub insert to mimic the hub of a car wheel forth wheel to center on and be held concentric to the hub and wheel.
· Custom fabricated fender and differential/swingarm mounts (Eliminated OEM Fenders)
· Custom Turned LED Tail/Brake/Turn Lights (eliminated OEM Tail Lights)
Frame & Body
· Ginz Choppers 35” “Tipi” Sissy Bar and Back rest (also have a Corbin backrest with side arms for my wife….)
· CycleSmiths 19” Driver Banana Boards
· Midtrike Step Brake Pedal Extender
· CycleSmiths Banana Board Brake Pedal (Driver and Parking Brake)
· Picard USA Passenger Boards
· Kuryakyn Extended Brake Pedal
· Baker Customs Solid Extended Shifter
· Pingle Extended Shifter Peg
· HD MoCo rear bumper
· Angled center mount license plate holder - Drag Specialties (mounted on center of trunk body)
· Illuminated license plate frame – Chrome Glow
Engine
· Stage 1 Tuning
o Screaming Eagle 4” Cannons with slash cut tips
o S&S Air Cleaner
· Sumax Braided Steel Spark Plug Wires
· Braided Steel oil line (Rear and off oil cooler on front)
· Kuryakyn Precision Chrome Engine and Tranny Covers (all)
· Diamond Engineering polished stainless steel “groove” show hardware – Engine, Tranny, controls, etc.
I have been engineering / fabricating and or collecting the components for the past 2 months and am now starting the transformation. I am doing it in “chunks” so I can continue to ride between additions.
Folks seem to like the tires, here they are….
The Stage I “stuff” was done at Doc’s HD before I picked up the bike. I got the adapters for the Cragars finished a couple of weeks ago and have been finishing up the tail lights as they have to go on before the tires can mount up (I lose the fenders when that happens). Here are the light housings….
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The trees are being machined and the replacement fender engineering work is finished.
The fenders will be more like this than the photo above...
I will share photos of the project's progress as it occurs….