Old Harleys are why folks still love them. Thank you guys for keeping the heritage alive. Best part is watching Sean lose because freaking Sean! Thanks Matt. Hell yes!
The ingredients, knowledge, lessons, experiences, the list of what it takes goes on. To be apart of history like this would only feel better if I(we)were there ! Another incredible job gentlemen !
I love seeing old machines living again doing what they were born for I will own a flathead one day in my opinion they are the most beautiful Harley Davidson engine ever made
LOL on ending the video revealing the "cheater motor" hahaha. Great video guys. I'm subscribed to all three of you, so it's good to see you creating content for us together.
I watched the Bikes and Beards video yesterday and this one today. Great stuff. Loved the races AND SMOKING THE TIRE!! On an almost 100 year old bike, Holy Shit that was awesome.
I’m a biker. Since 16 years old. I’m now 75 and I’m still riding. Had a Harley sportster in 1977 in the Uk when H.D. was produced by AMF. Watching the enthusiasm these guys have is inspiring to me. Thanks.
That was amazing. Its on my bucketlist to visit the museum one day. All of you guys are amazing people and it would be an honor and a privilege to meet you one day Matt..
It's really awesome y'all are doing content together. Even better to see these beautiful machines in motion. Racing them was their original purpose, great video guys, love to see if Bikesand Beards comes thru with a rematch. ?
That bike came out awesome. To see these pieces of history make noise is amazing. My grandfather had a 1950s Indian. Always loved it. Never had a chance to ride it though.
Pretty obvious we need to see a rematch now that Sean's bike is working! I say..... do it at Sons of Speed! Sell Team Matt and Team Sean shirts/hats and support a charity or two with the proceeds! (make sure each team is an official harley color combo from the era)
Probably the best video yet and I love them all. Great bikes and lots of fun. Nice job on the restoration but to be honest I would have kept it a dirty as possible as I prefer that look. Great job guys
I absolutely love that!! That was some fun!! Mat has deffinitely inherited racing genes from his dad!! Possibly the toughest guy to beat with a 45 on the planet!! Supercool!! Thank you guys!!
My Dad rode the WLA as a courier for a brief time during WWII. I have a couple of pictures of him on his Harley. To see these old period bikes get rebuilt and restored is fantastic. Maybe one day when I go back to visit my birth state of NC I’ll visit the museum…
Worked for Fletcher's H-D back in the '70's, early '80's. Bob Fletcher the owner actually raced a WLDR on the beach in Daytona, he ran a 'Cheater motor', raced as Mother Fletchers race team. Lot's of goog stories and pictures. R.I.P. Bob, good guy, good friend.
My last trip up to see you in June was moonsooned out. We made it to Spruce Pine, held up for a couple days of solid rain and decided to ride back home. 226A, water sheeting off the mountain and Marion had probably 3"-4" of standing water. It was an adventure.... We are hoping to try again in early Sept.
Sean impressed me for a guy who took a long ride on a WRDL before this I don't think I could have done much better and I have quite a few years of drag racing bikes under my belt.
Everything about this video is awesome. Cheers to you and your dad, he was a true American icon! Sean, great gift and you held your own! One of the best videos I’ve watched in quite some time!
Having watched the three different perspectives from the three different channels.. interesting how the other people act, or react when it's not their channel I have found this in other channels also. 😁😁
Aww man! This makes me miss the days when I was an apprentice at Rocky's Harley Davidson in London, Ontario, Canada in 1989-1990. Those folks were a good crew. They trusted me to rewire a 1967 FL generator Shovel that had been used to chase cows in the field. It fired right up, and I was proud of that. Still am. Now I'm in Japan Japan
Give me old school anyday What a team! W.T.T. AND B@B'S what a great video. Like minded people doing what they love working racing talking and living the motorcycle life!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND MAY HE KEEP YOU SAFE IN HIS LOVING HANDS🌩️🌩️🌩️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😁👍👍👍👍
this has been one of my most favorite RU-vid collaborations ever!! Such an epic series and an epic ending. Loved every minute of it and I can't wait to visit DWTT in Maggie Valley .....Carolina!
From 1995 to 2001 I owned a 45 ci flathead that I built off of a 1952 or earlier rolling chassis with a factory springer that had been nicely chromed before I got the bike, an 18 inch front, 16 inch rear wheel, OEM tanks, no front fender, and a modified/ after market FL style rear fender, Bates head light, Bates small solo seat with springs, stock transmission with gated tank shifter, suicide clutch and all powered by a 1953 G model Servicar engine with the large finned 5.75:1 aluminu heads and a 30 mm Mikuni round slide. It was fun, it was also my primary transportation fo a few years along with racing it in a 45 Solo class at the Harley drags. Needing ,ore speed to run 28 miles each way to work and weekend rides of around 100 miles with my Motorcycle club I bought engine and transmission output sprockets for the highest speed possible and after blowing the rear piston into 3 pieces, splitting the big end of the rear rod into a Y shape, and breaking the leftside flywheel in two resulting in a siezure so severe that the now locked drivetrain was so bound up that depressing the clutch had no effect and I skidded off the interstate 35 south and into tall weeds that slowed me down and then stopped me without ever falling down. It also split the back of thr transmission case. I went to a local shop where I knew the owner had been buying up 45 flathead stuf at every opportunity and had pallets of engine and transmission parts (enough engine parts to assemble 75 theoretically running engines) where after some discussion and planning and some struggles with my wallet I was able to purchase a set of WLDR cylinders already freshly bored and sized to a new set of forged pistons, all the rings, gaskets, etc... plus a NOS transmission case with bearings installed, an intake manifold to match the big ports, and my aluminum heads decked to provide 6.25:1 compression. I then acquired a Joe Hunt Magneto, a Kehein butterfly carb that I fabbed an adapter to mount up, a set of Big Twin rockers for the springer with a panhead era front hub and brake assembly laced into a 21 inch front wheel and tire. I pulled the valves and did some minor porting, did a repaint Black) with a new rear fender (flat 6 inch wide trailer fender with the "Duck tail" rear tip and a reproduction Sparto tail light and a Bates style P pad, the skinny one about 3 inches wide, 8 inches long, and 2 inches tall at one end, 4 inches at the other end. It was all kind of built to resemble a poster of an orange WR flat tracker that I used to have hanging in my bedroom. This bike was very quick for a 45ci street ridden HD and had decent top end considering its origins at 80 mph. After Harley Davidson Motor Company decided to no longer have a remote R&D test facility in Lytle Texas (I was a technician that maintained test bikes and installed test parts etc...) and my wife said she really divnot want to move to Talladega Alabama so I could continue as a tech at that test facility I went to work at the HD dealership in San Antonio. I had just gotten a 1990 FXR as primary transportation and parked the 45 with intent tovbuild it even better. Unfortunately my FXR developed some problems including the eft side Timken bearings oil transfer between primary drive and crankcase. I got Harley to send free warranty cases but I wanted to do more while I had it apart, but I also had to do it all quickly since I was in a borroed car. This meant I needed parts money now and I made a decision I still regret, I sold the 45 to a friend who promised to give me first rihhts to purchase should he decide to sell it. He did not keep his promise snd I no longer have a clue where my old 45 is.
I bought a 37 WL in southern Illinois in 1977, had no primary chain. Got ten feet of #35 chain, cut it in three pieces and used one piece to get it up to Chicago, and then replaced it, and rode it to Cherry Point, NC. I sold it a couple years later when i got married, I really miss that bike. The WL's were cheap back then, I think I paid seven hundred bucks for it.
That was awesome to watch, seeing these bike in action & what they were build for, what a lot of fun, Sean been call out by Matt 😊, for a rematch look forward to the next race, thanks guy's absolutely amazing
Glad I got to see all 3 videos. Your face was priceless of the motorcycle that was given to you. Best wishes on memories of new bike. I have to do a trip down to your place to see it from pa.
I can't imagine that the young lions who raced these bikes years ago would have ever imagined that some boys with the same spirit would be racing them in 2023! :P
matt if i ever get back to maggie valley i hope to meet you i was able to meet your dad loved that dude im in my 60s now and am trying to get my harley running after haveing to let it sit for7 years because of health reasons i hope to meet you if not i can at least say i got to meet dale and got pictures with him keep up the outstandiing work
