ORIGINAL: I CUT 1

Front wheel looks very nice. My front tire is getting thin for tread, hope to get a matching front rim when it's finally time to replace tire. So what did you make your headlamp bracket from?

ORIGINAL: I CUT 1

Got a tad over 6000 miles on the front tire, so it won't be long. Who did you order your rims through? I bought my rear rim and pully through Parts Direct. They laid a hurting on everybody elses prices. Keep us updated on weather you go with the lowering bolts,(as I did), or the 422 shocks. Are you going to sqat the front end too, those upside downy forks might turn unto a pain.

ORIGINAL: MATUCHI

It is a bike with a little history. It was in Hot Bike magazine reader's rides back in 2000 when I sent them a picture and the story. Right after I bought the bike I saw an add for Arlen's shop in one of the bike magazines and decided to call him to see if they really did build my bike. I didn't want to go around and say they built it if they didn't. So I called the shop and told them the story about them building my bike for a guy back in 1990, and they had me send a picture of both sides of my bike to them. After a week I got home and I had a message on my answering machine telling me they remember building the bike, but they didn't build the engine. That was exactly what the original owner told me the day me buddy bought it. So I called them up and asked a few more questions and they referred to my bike as the orange one.

If you look close at the pictures of my bike you will see that they messed up when they painted the left tank. They painted the right 1955-1956 emblem on both sides, never realizing that the left emblem is supposed to have the big curve at the front of Harley-Davidson, not the back. I was thinking about getting it fixed, but how many people can say they have an A-N custom built bike with a pretty major painting flaw? And with the gold leaf in the emblem, I figured it would cost more money than it was worth to me. The name of the color is Tangelo Pearl and it would not be the first color I would pick to paint a bike, but I'm not going to paint over it and ruin an original A-N custom paint job. It does stick out like a sore thumb in a parking lot of black Harleys and I haven't seen any other bikes that look like exactly like it.

Tank emblem painted correctly on right side:


Tank emblem painted backward on left side:

ORIGINAL: voodoochild

Wow, the bike is lookin pretty cool MoJo !
I've been surfin the net for a sidemount plate and that kury one your talkin about looks really sharp with a decent price tag too. I'd like to trim down the area under the tail light and remove the licence bracket on mine. That way it would really show off the wide tire. Are you thinking the same ?

Cant remember which brand lowering kit i have, but it also required shock teardown. I've got the bike about 1.5 inches down and no problems with ground clearance running the same VH pipes as yours. I did scrape the bottowm pipe tip once on a VERY aggressive interstate on ramp, but the bike was WAY over at the time. I dont find there is any major loss of comfort with the bike that low either, however i am still running the stock seat which i find alooks bulky but is very comfortable. I've ridden 800 mile days fully loaded with a t bag, tent, sleeping bag etc and no problems carying the load.

I'm curious, i changed my front tire last fall (about 22,000 miles on it) I put a dunlop back on and a new tube. Do those rims you have require a tube or are they tubeless?

Again the bike looks great !
cheers
Ian

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