Anyone that says that they enjoy working on bikes is a liar. A liar. No one has this kind of patience, not even a Kindergarten teacher with 23 kids hopped up on FunDip. Normally I can handle bike maintenance like fluids, brake pads, tires, etc. I got all of that. I have built stunt bikes into the double digits. But never and I mean never have I attempted to tear down a whole motorcycle and then reassemble it. I’m not just talking about taking the motor out and putting it back in.

This time around I went full monty. Complete tear down, fresh hot motor, new transmission, new parts galore and a complete different look when finished. The bike on the left in the above picture, (yeah the one with half a fork on it) started life as a 2006 Harley Davidson FXDL a.k.a. the Harley Dyna Lowrider. I do not know what happened to the bike, I just know the bike hit something head on and hit it hard.

When faced with a project of never ending doom one has to quickly evaluate the situation and have the ability to close their eyes and vision what can be. By that I mean you need to look at the project and know what you actually need and what is actually there. I always look for the most complete bikes or bikes that are missing the parts that I already know that I am going to replace.

As you can see from the above pictures things are going well. By well, I mean I think I figured out how to tear it down. The frame was so bad that we are planning on welding two frame together to build one straight bike. Some of the fins on the motor were broken off. Bolts were broken, forks were snapped off, the swing arm mount on the transmission case was broken off. I can continue down the list, but we are all really here to check out the trick parts that get bolted on to this machine.

As far as disasters are concerned this one would have been labeled as a cat 5 hurricane. Just like any hurricane damage I plan on rebuilding this chunk of iron. So far you have just gotten to see the damage and I promise you in the coming weeks that we are going to start to rebuild this lucky charm.Follow along over the next couple of months as we start assembling and document it all here in this blog via pictures and video.

Thanks,

Tice