Customer Pics

      Gene Hill has customized his 2003 100th anniversary Fat Boy with the HD skull theme (25 skulls in all!)
        Custom wheels and low profile tires, matching brake rotors & pulleys and LOTS OF CHROME

     Rick Lettich   submitted this great photo of his 2001 custom. His bike has a mid-USA softail frame with 4" stretch,
       a polished 98" S & S motor expertly built by Phil Mell, a polished RevTech 6-speed transmission, with a Vance & Hines exhaust.

Bobby E's 1995 Dyna with wheel chair car

This bike has a great story, and George was kind enough to put it together for us to enjoy. The 71 FX Superglide was purchased used in 1975. At that time is was no longer a stock bike. It was customized as a chopper.The reason why is, when the Superglide was brought out in 1971 most people weren't ready for the styling change or the paint scheme. The Harley Davidson Co. made each dealer take one for their showroom. The Harley Davidson Co called the 71 FX Superglide the "Night Train", however most of the dealers named it the "Star Spangled Banner". Very few 1971 Superglides were sold. Still the factory made more in 1972 but, put different paint colors on the bike. They still didn't sell and mid way through the year they made a design change. The biggest change was making a one piece gas tank, eliminating the fiberglass boat tail and adding electric start. The 1973 Superglide was a big seller. The dealers waited for the factory to make replacement parts for the 1973 model. What this allowed the dealers to do is take off the two piece fatbob gas tank and fiberglass boat tail rear end and replace them with the 1973 Superglide parts. Now the dealers would sell the modified 71's as leftovers. Of course most of the original parts were thrown away which has created a shortage and rareness. I always had an idea that someday I wanted to restore the bike back to it's original look and style. Over the years, visiting Harley dealerships I would ask if they had 71 Superglide parts,( decals, rear end, inner fender, seat) only to find out most people couldn't really remember exactly what they looked liked. Back then there weren't many books published showing all the different models as there is today. Needless to say I bought decals that were for a 71 Superglide and some that I still don't know which model they belong to. In 1978 I wrote a letter to the Harley Davidson factory in York explaining how I wanted to restore the Superglide and really had no idea exactly what it looked like. They were gracious enough to send me two 8X10 photos of their original brochure for the 1971 model year. The next few years were spent collecting parts. I found the boat tail rear end at an Easyrider swap meet.The inner fender I found at White's H-D. A fair amount of parts I found at Schaffer's H-D. The rest of the parts and trim I found traveling to and phoning other H-D dealers. I also found an original new seat at Bill's in Berwick. I finally started to restore the bike in the winter of 1996. It is a complete restoration from the frame up which also included an engine rebuilt. With the help and thanks to Mell's Speed & Custom Cycles, I finished restoring it in the spring of 1997. I rode the bike but, only on cloudless bright blue sunny days. In October of 1998 I received a phone call from a man named Ultan Guilfoyle. He was calling on behalf of the Guggenheim Museum asking if they could borrow my Superglide for the Art Of The Motor Cycle Exhibit. How he ever heard about my bike I'll never know. I agreed to loan them the bike and it was traveling around with the exhibit for about eighteen months in the USA. The Guggenheim Museum had plans to take the exhibit to Berlin Germany, Bilbao Spain and some were in Italy. However the budget dwindled and the European exhibits were cancelled. I wasn't really disappointed because now the bike would come home and once again I could have the enjoyment of riding it.