I bought this bike and the clutch keeps slipping until I hit the throttle real hard. Then the front end come off the ground. Any Ideas?

 

HA, HA. This is Marion (Big Mo) Owens in 1974. He was the king of double engine dragsters. He has gone down in history as one of the best Top Fuel Harley racers in history, as well as one of the pioneers of the sport. I got this picture off of his sons facebook page.

 

That is too cool!! I've watched a coupla 2 engine HD run in Sturgis back around 92 or so. One of them had dual knuckleheads engines the other was dual shovels.
I go to the AHDRA drags in Woodburn, Oregon every year since I've lived here. Hasn't been any dual engine bikes here. Did see an all electric bike run. I'm not sure how he got into the HD races but he did run about 180+, not sure the time tho.
jim

 

I would run across "Mo" several times over the years. I haven't seen him race in 10 years. The last time I saw him on a dragster he had a double with a shovel up front and a evo in back. His son races now and has posted a lot of his dads memorbilia on his facebook page.
I posted this picture for the double slabside shovels he was running at the time.

 

Everytime I went to a race in my younger days I was always drunk so I didn't get to know anybody's names. I do remember a guy who was always in the top fuel category who wore rebel flag leathers. I saw him in Sturgis and at Bud's Creek in Md. Cant remember his name and I haven't seen him run in Woodburn. I also remember at Bud's Creek (about '98) alot of the fans in the crowd were pissed when a black guy won in the finals in top fuel. Man that dude was fast!!! Nobody was even close!!! Never seen him since then either...
Later,
jim

 

Man you just took me for a brutal flashback with that . The club I ran with picked up one that looked just like that at swapmeet in KC , had to be late 70's sometime . Had 2 slab shovel motors in it like that , never could get that thing to run right one motor was always pulling harder than the other and talk about a bone shaker . I road it 3 times and quit scarred hell outa me .

 

I was going through old pictures looking for a picture of my shifter and ran across this picture of MO coaching his son on the twin Shovel/Evo dragster I took back around 2000. I never saw this scoot run exactly right. Thought it was cool. That's "Shorty" Reed in the background on his nitro Sportster.