First project- pics 1909 Faux motorcyle

I never responded, to your donor bike question

Hi Hoodoo. Been following your build since the thread describing it as a museum repro display. Very cool IMO.Looking forward to see it done. I've been considering the Husky 105 for a 4 cycle build and also looking at the larger Worksmans. Your thoughts please sir on the quality of materials and workmanship of your donor bike. Thank you!

I got the Husky but have been informed the Worksman's rear section is more
close to the 1909ish frame design. Considering one isn't using a whole lot of the frame, it could be argued they aren't worth it, I mean the whole front section has to be cut away, I didn't cut away my top bar but will with the next project. However, the heavy duty wheels are appreciated...I am no lightweight at 220.

So, I am trying to find a USED worksman for my next project (just missed out on a 100 used one locally), although I think just about any frame will probably do. Duece custom bicycles http://www.deucemotorbicycles.com/
uses worksman's as his bases and they look great but he is also cutting away the whole front section in order to lengthen the bike six inches. I'm darn partial to his blue Indian and am considering buying one, I mean it has a darn lot of nice work in it and comes ready for engine installation.
 
Here it is being ridden at our air fair by a "German WWI pilot".

Here is another about to be ridden by a 1916 US Soldier in the June 2010 Luling Texas Watermelon parade. Had a blast. The float behind me was very slow giving me several hundred feet to ride around, do figure eights, salute all the kids and old timers (just like those shrinders do). The bike really rode well A group of us could have had a blast (except for the heat). The pic is entitled "the little kid that tagged along" as it drove behind our museums model T and when the parade slowed down at times I would ride circles around the T with it blaring it's OOGAH horn at me....little kid pestering the adult.

Dressing in period clothing really makes these bikes stand out as well as being used in conjunction with old vehicles!

The only catch at parades is that when you are in it, it's darn nigh impossible to take pics. Hopefully some will turn up on the net soon.

Al
That build really takes the china look away from the engine. Awsome!!!
 
I wanted a more conventional look to the bike, more like a regular motorcycle. The board trackers to me are kind of strange in terms of a fun riding bike. I mean the current engines don't get them up to any sort of fun speed anyways. To me these bikes are cruisers more than racers.
 
I cant bring myself to flip bars and hunch over a bike that has a top speed of 35 mph downhill , maybe some bikes with hi po engines are capable of higher speeds, might be fun to race others on a track but its still going to be slow racing .
I built my bikes to be cruisers also.
 
If you put me on anything that looks like a racer I am going to want to go fast. I might stick a more powerful engine on it just to see if I can make the worlds fastest bicycle and might find myself on the salt flats like Munro. Cannot have that. I think would be embarrassing to speed all hunched over at 35 MPH, then again, maybe it might do 36, then 37....uh-oh, somewhere along the line things are gonna hurt and I am not of the skateboarding mindset. A lot of folks have gotten caught up with "boardtracker" as a romantic kind of bike but as far as I know there aren't any board tracks around. The old cruiser motorcycles were what was running the dirt roads of America and those early blacktops.
 
riding my kingsbury in parade photo

Just ran across this pic, it was so small when sent to me I did not recognize it.
I had plenty of room to ride in this parade in Luling Texas in June. Great fun, recommended even in areas where they aren't legal.
 

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1909 Special at a local event with vintage duds

Just ran across this pic, it was so small when sent to me I did not recognize it.
I had plenty of room to ride in this parade in Luling Texas in June. Great fun, recommended even in areas where they aren't legal.

Here is the 1909 bike at a local event. What do you think of the outfit...not everyone who rode back then was 18 and 125 lbs.
At some risk I am posting this as my last post I tried with these two videos got it cast out of heritage lane by the monitors. I have had no response to my query yet as to why it was cast out into the general population, perhaps it was my subject line rather than the content, at least I hope so....so there are the videos again, perhaps these will pass monitor muster, if not I am totally perplexed, note the original motorcycle/bicycle manual klaxon style horn, just put it on, carbide lamp coming next:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeNaBfXc6y4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fk-VKVUO10
 
Here is the 1909 bike at a local event. What do you think of the outfit...not everyone who rode back then was 18 and 125 lbs.
At some risk I am posting this as my last post I tried with these two videos got it cast out of heritage lane by the monitors. I have had no response to my query yet as to why it was cast out into the general population, perhaps it was my subject line rather than the content, at least I hope so....so there are the videos again, perhaps these will pass monitor muster, if not I am totally perplexed, note the original motorcycle/bicycle manual klaxon style horn, just put it on, carbide lamp coming next:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeNaBfXc6y4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fk-VKVUO10

FYI - it was the subject line (amongst other things). Nothing was mentioned about the faux 1909 Special in the subject line or the text; just about making YouTube videos. That's why it was moved to the general discussion section.
 
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