I dont know who started it ethier but I like it .Just finished my So.Cal style Deluxe today.Ok maybe finished is a strong word but I'm real close to where I want to be.Now if my dumb a$$,slight case of mental retardation when it comes to posting pics will go away.Hopefully I will be able to post some pics and get some feed back.

 

The ride which inspired me into that direction in here HDF (the fisrt one I remember running fat radial spokes) was Dinger's (Dan) Heritage. Sweet looking ride, he slammed the rear put on some fat spokes 18-21 and crazy wide beach bars. I have a couple of pics of Dan's ride I'll find them for you.
History-wise? How the **** should I know?

Mimo.

 

It was on this forum that exposed me to the gangsta/socal/cali style - best transformation you can do for the deluxe and heritage IMHO.

 

Here is a pic of Dingers bike.


That is what got me wanting the fat spokes as I used to ride with him every week.

Drew

 

Oh yeah, and my gangster softail! I had the apes first, then did the wheels, and then the fishtails which have since been changed out due to my OCD.
These were the Ultima up and out pipes, the second set after the fishtails, now I am non the third post fishtail pipes. These were the Wild 1 Chubbies I put on back in 2006.

Drew

 

Samson exhaust made it as popular as it is today with its custom build of a deluxe for its cho lo pipes it first showed up on the fourm a few years ago here is the link to the bike and story. they started the craz with the deluxe and 21 inch weel and the cho los this goes back to 2006 and the build of an 07 deluxe
http://hotbike.automotive.com/22027/...ail/index.html

 

Nor Cal gangsta - Stockton Ca.

 

A lot of that style comes from the California low rider scene...guys starting building bikes in the same style they built there old bombs...it's just an evolution from bomb to bike...

Take a look at low rider bicycles as well...they all have white walls, bit front wheels, apes, ect...low rider cars, motorcycles, and bicycles...they all short of share the same styling here in Cali...

Here are just a few pictures representing that style...

 

Cool pics, D. Trejo is a cool guy BTW, he likes to hang in biker rallys and is a very down-to-earth ****.

Mimo.

 

Funny thing is that out of the thousands of Harleys I see in New England, I've never seen this SoCal style softail other than on this forum. I love the style, and I'm going to try to do my own take on it.

The problem with New Englands is the hills and steep driveways. I'll have to keep the pipes short. Or I could just scrape them....