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The hardtime is a fine looking bike. Of course, it has a proper leaf spring girder up front. (Not the hideous abortion hanging off the front of that shovel frame.)
Definitely different, if someone pushed it over it would be hard to find the damage. I think he would win in the different category in any bike show. I think he raided a ship engine graveyard for many of his parts.
I'm thinking that one is a "knock-off" design of the other. Question is, which came first?
Personally I prefer the Jailhouse Choppers Hardtime.
Both are knockoffs of what Da Gump referred to: an original Indian leaf-spring girder fork. Several outfits make them, but Kiwi is responsible for bringing them back to life in our era. I saw one Sunday on a Sucker Punch Sally bike done in stainless steel.
On this bike I like how the builder has set the front end geometry up to ensure reasonable handling. Check out the angle of the frame neck, the centerline angle of the fork legs, and the angle drawn by the location of the axle. All these work together to create a reasonable trail figure. Good engineering, even if the looks might not be what someone else likes. But then some of us don't like stock-looking bikes with a smattering of bolt-on parts. To each ... blah, blah.
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