Shovelhead starting up - Holme Valley Customs Pan-Shovel Bobber 

Thank you Matthew!

Nah my pan looks just as good.

Compassion, too 😁

@@oilyfingers No , no compassion at all . Newer Harley's are like a sewing machine made for dentist and females ...get on a real Motorcycle and feel the ground move foily -fingers. 😆 J-D

@@edmonddupris8422 They are nice , my cuz in frorida has one. little out of my price range . Is your's a 61 cubic inch or a 74 ? they made both . I have always heard they have a little problem with getting oil to the top-end . The most noise you can get out of a old V-twin is said to be from a 70's shovel. I do like all the older machine, newer ones do nothing for me. j. d.

All the generator bottom end motors looked great knuckle pan and shovel. The cone just lost something in the look for functionality.

Thank you, at some point I'll do a walk around video and tell you all about it 👍

It’s still in the build

Hi! Thanks, it's a reproduction front fender from a 1948 Panhead that I have spun around and customised

No, this is the first time I had fired the bike up in its current build. When it is set up properly (as it is now) it should be one or two kicks.

I bought it from Lowbrow customs, but I believe it is actually a V-Twin manufacturing hardtail.

@@holmevalleycustoms love the stance, is that 18" rear and 19" front? what tire and wheel size if you don't mind

@@dumberfeet I don't mind! They are both 16" wheels with 5" Shinko tires on

@@holmevalleycustoms thanks for that

Well he was at 14 so he got you beat

It's kinda like street name for that engine cause early shovel still use the same crankcase as panhead

Hi, thank you, it's actually a 1953 Panhead bottom end with later shovel heads

@@holmevalleycustoms .... and what exactly is a Pan bottom? 🤓

@@swede910 So the bottom half of the engine - as in the crank cases - are from a 1953 panhead. Obviously the heads on this engine are later shovelheads.

@@holmevalleycustoms Yeah, but please ...... it it has no PAN heads so it has nothing to do with a panhead simply. I see shovelheads in a pre-66 frame on a generator bottom that used to have panheads. Sorry, just can not stand all this misconception out there.

@@swede910 When Shovelhead engines first started they had a similar bottom end (crankshaft and cases) to Panhead engines, but were made after production of Panhead engines ceased. After 1969 Shovelheads had a redesigned bottom end that looked different - people then fitted the top ends (cylinders and heads) from a Shovelhead engine onto a Panhead lower end when they were rebuilding a Panhead engine so as to improve the power characteristics and to be able to fit aftermarket cam shafts etc to get more power still as more powerful cams for Pannheads were not available due to the fact that Panhead top ends were not as 'tunable' as Shovelhead top ends. When S&S Cycle started to build there own replica engines, they started with a Shovelhead replica and 'reverse-engineered' the cylinder heads so they looked like Panheads but are in fact Shovel-type heads so as to make more power than the low compression Panhead engine that they look like - people love the engine to look like a Panhead but pinheads cannot keep up with modern-day traffic or reliability. A similar thing was done with early Evo motor top ends fitted to Shovel lower ends, and indeed some old 45 inch flatheads got top ends from English Matchless single cylinders bikes to give them more power they were known as Magnums. Back in the days of Evo engines the aftermarket was producing crankcases for Evos with four camshafts like a Sportster, and another company made four valve cylinder heads using valves that were Volkswagen Beetle parts. Sportster engines were originally 'K' models that were 45 inch side valve, four cam engines where the crank and transmission case were cast as one 'unit', but had overhead valve cylinder heads fitted to them. Those heads were later 're-engineered' and made of aluminium, then fitted to Panheads to create the Shovel head engine. There, has that explained it clearly enough for you or are you just an argumentative ignoramus ?

Thanks Randy, the fast idle is on the carb ;)

Thakery already gave you a lesson on that.lol

Hi Eric, this is the first time I fired the bike up after spending two years building it. I know it wasn't dialled in or set up right. At this point I was just pleased I managed to get it to fire. Thanks.