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To: Ilaine who wrote (14894)	12/5/1998 10:05:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 71178

Okay. "Sky's the limit". Start with a brand-new Harley FXD, the basic Big Twin. Yank the engine, wheels&front fork. Get one of those inverted Ceriani front forks and put on big-ass Performance Machine floating brakes, like the hot rice bikes use. Serious tranny upgrades (parts list... yougettheidea.) The motor would be built up by one of the better custom houses into a 117 cubic inch monster - but tuned mild for "street" use. Lotta chrome - and I'd like "black chrome" on the cases themselves. Done right, this looks like polished hematite. Real rich looking. The one thing I'd do though - is to find someone who makes a QUIET set of hi-perf pipes. Maybe adapt one of those cylindrical units off a sportbike. I want it to run quiet enough that I can hear the traffic. Paint? Pearl white - or some way to simulate the look of New Mexico white gypsum sand. Then find an airbrush virtuoso to provide an authentic, understated Navajo motif. I would pick parts and finishes to get a bike which runs like a full custom but looks&sounds a but understated. Right now "baroque" is in style, with grteat wads of slots, louvers and aluminum-billet covers. And paint that looks like the afterimage from a flash picture. Wha'hey, I gotta be "different"... On a limited budget I'd do the wheels&brakes first; then if there was cash left over a mild engine re-working.

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