You are 100% correct. It's embarrassing,but there's a whole Japanese/ shovelhead/ironhead culture and they build, maintain and tune that old iron better than we do.
you might want to go and see what's going on in your local Fab Shop" community. There is an entire culture, of people building this very type, of bad-ass, American iron. Designers, Fabbers, Painters, Pen Stripers, Leather workers, Machinists, Fine-detail metal engravers, Mechanics, and Builders all over the country, who collaborate with one another for months, in order to turn-out bikes like this. EVERYDAY in AMERICA!
Build your OWN SHIT!!! Don't have to pay Jesse James to do anything! Go into your garage, fire-up your blow torch, and bend some F'ing metal!!! When your done, shoot it with some heavy flake, spit-shine the aluminum, and go out there and scare the shit out of your neighbors!!! Lesson number one... I'll be here all week!
Pretty som bitch ! Buitl 1948 Panhead with my own two hands mid 1980s . Had to sell her ,a biker in Germany bought it . Just wonder what if she is still running . Thanks for posting the Shovel .
Jesse James building cars now . Like these real plain bikes best , not one a bent outta shape looking like piece of rot iron patio patterns " aka" History channel crap shops .
