Tweaked Twin Cam

TWEAKED TWIN CAM

When 88’s not enough

SURE, THE HARLEY WORLD IS KNOWN FOR OUTRAGEOUS CUSTOMS. SOME ARE beautiful, some humorous and a few are even obnoxious. But they all have one thing in common: They didn’t come from the Harley-Davidson factory. Until now. Behold what The Motor Company can do when it sets its mind to it. Cycle World's sister publication Big Twin challenged Harley to come up with an exotic custom using its own people, and most significantly, its own parts.

No sweat, said the factory, and gave the assignment to in-house design virtuoso Wyatt Fuller-formerly of Razorback Cycles-who immediately set his focus on a Dyna frame and new Twin Cam 88 motor.

Fuller fabricated the tank to create a flowing line down through the seat and into the battery box. Thin-wall tubing aided in the visual trickery of creating “frame members” underneath the seat. The gorgeous rear fender was designed to give a ’40s bobber-meets-flat-tracker feel. The effect is stunning.

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The Twin Cam motor, pumped up with a 1550cc big-bore kit installed by none other than Harley wrenching legend Don Tilley, cranks out 80 rear-wheel horses with 90 stump-pullin’ foot-pounds of torque. Stout is the word.

Paint, from the PPG catalog, is Vanilla Milk Shake and Medium Orange-jokes about the world’s fastest Dreamsickle are permitted-and the accenting graphics were laid on by Dawne Holmes.

As you look at this beauty, remember that the frame is neither stretched nor raked, and with the exception of the tank, seat and rear fender, the entire motorcycle is constructed from off-the-shelf parts, or prototype parts under consideration for distribution.

Look for it on the cover of the June/July issue of Big Twin—and with a little luck, maybe at a Harley dealership near you in the not-too-distant future?

Beau Allen Pacheco