APEHANGER DAYS

Cabin Fever / Pan's & Knuckle's

It's been cold and snowy here in the Northeast. So cold it's hard to even get motivated to go out to the garage never mind work on anything.

So in the spirit of things to come (WARMER WEATHER) here are a couple of shots form this past summer.

I took a quick ride a little north for a late afternoon lunch and a beer. while I'm sitting there eating and shooting the shit two friends form the AMCA roll in Bobby on his Panhead and Chris on his Knucklehead.

Can't wait for Spring!

Bike Maintenance Made Easy or I'm just getting old?

After 35 years of riding, working on & building motorcycles I finally bought a full size bike lift, first time I used it I realized I should have got one about 35 years ago.

Happy New Year

A new year and time for some change.

I decided to make some additional changes to my 1999 Softail.

This machine has been my go to bike for long weekends and then some for years. For the longest time I left it stock but over the past few years I have been trying to give it an Old School look as best I can, here I just replaced the chrome stock 5 and 3/4 inch head light with a black 7" unit. In past post's you can read about the other changes I made mostly cosmetic and some maintenance items.

It's amazing the difference just the right changes will do for a late model bike....I like it!

You can see in the photo of the new light on the shop floor my next project in the background, it's my 1957 Panhead, got this pretty close to finished then put her on hold for a very very long time and catching a LOT of SHIT from my buddy Rich to Get-her-done, I will post on it soon but it's been so long I will have to go though the whole bike....forgot where I left off and exactly what needs done or redone!

Merry Christmas to All

53 Pan in Action

Caught in midshift engaging the clutch and reaching for the hand grip.

Nice rolling shot of my 53 Pan taken during a photo shoot for American Iron Magazine.

The editor of the mag informed me that they would like to re-shoot it this coming spring as the photo's did not come out as expected and to their standards, oh well! This shot was actully taken by my good friend Rockabilly Rich who was at the mag shoot, should have had him take all the photos, he took this one with a smart phone!

Flatheads, Panheads, Shovelheads & Twincams Oh My!

A few random shots of the bikes that showed up for one of the Bear Mountain AMCA chapter rides this past summer.

Police Bikes

Midland Market must have some pretty good doughnuts!

It's good to see most PD's across the country have returned to using Harley Davidsons again after many years of trying other brands.

Time for the six month update!

OK...as always I just can't seem to get to this Blog as often as I would like, but here's a great story on this 1949 Pan.

49 Panhead

Recently I went on a charity run with an old friend Rockabilly Rich, on the the run there was this 1949 Pan. As it turns out the motor in this bike belonged to Rich in the late sixties which he ran in a custom he build and rode at that time when he was hanging with the Aliens M/C out of the Bronx N.Y. Long story short, he sold it to this same guy somewhere around 1970 and he still owns and rides it 44 years later at 65 years old. Check out the aluminum rear rim, original axed 61-62 tanks, if anyone was wondering where the name "Alien Tanks" came from now you know! it was a popular modification/fabrication with the Club and of the era along with "Spanish Louie" tail pipes and "Sleds" extending off the backend of Full Dress Pans & Shovels, all originating out of the Bronx and Mount Vernon area of N.Y. in the late sixties early seventies.