Alison's Black Widow
My wife's bike, Black Widow, is now the oldest chopper in our stable. When the Phat choppers came out I just had to have one. Luckily I got one for a good price and set out to do some mild customizing to it. It wasn't until I started on a new build for myself that I handed it over to the woman of the house. And she put me to work finishing it off as a proper girls' bike.
A narrowed Harley fender acts as the seat support structure. The whole assembly slides into the frame's seat tube and is clamped in place. The sissy bar and webbed skirt guard piece is made entirely of 316 stainless. I used the foam and glass technique to build up a "tank" to alter the frame profile and it was then covered in black velvet with a chrome web design. The rear wheel was also changed out to a 24" Sun doublewide laced to a Sram P-5 with coaster brake.

Blingatron?.....  As the name suggests, the bike is all about excess. Originally the bike was designed for use as a store display that would occasionally be ridden by a local bike shop owner. I already had plans to build a big tire bike with a more modern feel than the Lucky13. So when I was approached to build one for someone else, I jumped on it.
   
As things progressed, the partnership began to unravel and I decided to just build as I saw fit. What I ended up with is a ten and a half foot beer cruiser complete with storage tank. The fork itself measures 67" from risers to pivots. The rear tire is 250mm wide. the hub has a seven speed mega-range cassette and eight inch disc rotor both on the same side. A cyclical control behind the seat at left takes care of shifting and braking.

Lucky13 has been an ever-changing project for the course of about a year now. It started as a simple test of a newly purchased bender and has seemed to take on a life of its own. Its beginings were modest; a conical spring found by a co-worker in the dumpster, an inexpensive Ebay-bought rear wheel, and a ladies 5-speed donor bike.

The bike gets used regularly, both for Freakbike Militia events and also for plain old cruising. In fact it's not a bad grocery-getter as the tank doubles for cooler and storage. All fab work and paint was done in my shop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Specs:
custom frame and springer fork by 4th Horseman
Profile SS cranks
Brooklyn Shinburger pedals
180mm rear tire and Kawasaki rim assy.
26 X 144 spoke front wheel
Industrial jack-shaft arrangement with pillow block bearings
chain primary and chain final drive w/ assorted bits of downhill bikes and tandems
5-speed gearing with rear mounted friction shift
"deadman" suicide brake

Blingatron
Lucky 13
The Giant Killer project started when a fellow FBM member rolled up on his Stiletto and asked, "what would you do if it was yours?". He had a few ideas of stretching tubes here and there. My response was to remove the rear end and start over. At first I think he was put off, but after a few minutes he made arrangements to bring it to my shop for major surgery.

I drew a line on the bike with a sharpie and handed him the Sawzall. When he cut his new bike in half, I knew we were in business.

The process was to rotate the rear end forward about 15 degrees and build from there. About half way through the build, the owner decided on one of my mono-springers also. After that was said and done, I stretched the original "tank" piece to give the bike back some of its roots as a Stiletto.
Giant Killer
The Jaguar Trike was built for one of my friends at work. The idea was to modify an adult trike that he had for beach cruising. The second phase of the build was to fabricate a cooking trailer for it. The idea of a trike pulling a grill and cooler down the beach sounded good to me.

He also helped with the paintwork of my motorcycle, so a barter was in order. The trike by itself ended up being such an attraction at the beach for him that the trailer got put on hold. The rather large tank was modded to carry all the beach essentials. The springer is 56" long, the bike overall is 9'9".
Jaguar Trike
Pandora
The Pandora project started as a test to see if I could construct a new type of fork. Up until this point I had been using springers, and I thought a change was in order. I always liked the complexity of a girder fork, so I gave my best shot towards constructing one. The fork is very responsive and in the end yields about four inches of travel.
   
    My bikes all contain a certain amount of subliminal imagery.  You'll find quite a bit of late 30's Indian with a little miltary hardware thrown in for good measure if you look close. Aside from the fork, the modular bottom bracket assembly is probably the part I'm most fond of. I never like welding the bottom bracket shell into the frame for some reason. With this piece I could bolt everything together and give the impression of an old engine case at the same time.
Oh  yeah, if you haven't noticed it's got knobbies. I suppose that not many customs lend themselves to the use of knobs, but I felt this bike just screamed for them. Those are 26 X 3 downhill tires mounted on Surly rims. The front hub is a six inch Seismic, and the rear a Nexus Inter-8 with a roller. The bike is finished with an industrial stainless steel coating.

Lucky 13 Details
Giant Killer Details
Jaguar Trike Details
Pandora Details
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Rainmaker Details
Rainmaker
Rainmaker: I got the bug for a chopper after seeing a completely badass Swedish rigid while sitting at a stop light. This was just before the onslaught of made-for-tv choppification shows. Chopper motorcycles always held a mystical place for me when I was a kid, and all of a sudden I heard the call to build. The only problem was, I didn't know how to build one.
I decided to buy a used bike instead and it ended up being a nightmarish piece of shit. From the day I got it, I had nothing but problems.... so I bit the bullet. I tore the whole thing apart, tossed aside the spindly frame and anything else I disliked..... and began my journey.
The first step was the build a frame jig that would be substantial enough to hold everything exactly where I wanted it while welding. I made fixtures for the engine and trans mounts and set to bending some tubes. I then bought some inexpensive ERW tubing to use as test pieces before committing the measurements to the more expensive DOM steel tube that I would ultimately fabricate the frame from.

The actual frame building really didn't take very long. All the fabrication of forward controls, brackets, bars, and spacers took the majority of the time. I wanted to create a bike that captured some of the timeless cool factor that the bikes I remember from my childhood had. I tried to use as little billet aluminum as possible and opted for materials like copper, stainless, and brass instead.  The plating is a mix of nickel and brass/ gold. I thought that the brassy gold plating would match the gold leaf treatment on the tank.
I did have some help in the way of leatherwork on the seat (Seats by Lance), and the gold leaf work on the tank (Jesse Thoreson). The rest of the paintwork was done by myself and the now owner of the Jaguar Trike. Here's a quick rundown of parts:
Engine       80" Harley EVO
Trans         5-speed Harley
Carb          S&S super E
Fork          rebuilt and dechromed Paughco 12" over
Tank          early WCC
Wheels       Pat Kennedy 120 flattened, twisted spokes 18"rear, 19" front
Battery box    Twisted Choppers
Frame         myself
Controls      "
Bars            "
Exhaust       Very early Eddie Trotta
Oil filter       Oberg
Oil tank       Moon (I removed and modified the center section and made custom fittings)
Oil tank mounts      Fab: Kevin
Everything else...... me again