Pretty lame winter so far. I rode my wife’s Hot Rod Rebel to work on February 1st, if that tells ya anything. It has been hard to get into the “winter build” groove when the weather is soo nice outside. So we started taking Friday’s off from customer work in the shop, so we can […]
I’ve been slowly hacking away at my digger project. Knowing I wanted rearsets complicated matters even more. I spent ALOT of time on Ergonomics when I build a bike. A cool looking bike is worthless if it isn’t comfortable. We spent a few nights tacking up some round stock, mocking in possible peg locations, until […]
We’ve got a customer who likes our work so much, he couldn’t have just 1 engine! He wanted 2! We built these on our cores, using all new bearings, clutches, upgraded parts, Heiden Tuning 750 kits, 277 Pamco Ignition, Stainless Valves, HP Valve Springs, 5th Gear OD, ported heads, and all the other little goodies […]
This frame was never meant to be… At least not from our hands. This frame came to me from a good customer who has been waiting over 6 months for a weld-on hardtail section from another supplier. Unfortunately, this feller was out his cash AND still didn’t have a frame to put together. We don’t […]
We have made very little progress on Tevan’s Cafe’ build in the last 6 weeks or so. So we started tackling small things in our spare time. I made Tevan sit down with a sharpie and start marking up his front brake rotor. After about 5-6 different designs, he settled on one he liked, so […]
Had some folks make the drive down to Asheville NC from Canada this past weekend… We had spoken several times on the phone and after several back and forth emails, these folks decided to make the drive to deliver their XS650 Engine for a rebuild/big bore/rephase… They somehow managed to find the shop, it’s not […]
So I needed to test run a new engine for a customer.. My old stand was clunky, heavy and fairly hard to use. So we scrapped it… This new stand is fairly simple, just a furniture dolly, a regular XS650 engine stand, and a set of “handlebars” to hold all the miscellaneous wiring… I set […]
Doing a little bit of work on Tevan’s Resto-Mod Cafe Project in the last few days in between customer work… I’ve been showing Tevan how to bend and notch tubing, but it was finally time to let him try it out for himself… Armed with some 7/8″ OD tubing, an angle finder and the bender, […]
Genuine Hugh’s HandBuilt PMA swap for your XS650! We offer a bolt-on PMA system that is the highest output on the market. Don’t settle for lesser componentry to save a few bucks when you can have a 200 Watt High Output system from Hugh’s HandBuilt. We were the first to offer a complete PMA kit for these […]
Time to put some Harley parts to good use… And what better purpose than to use them as an organ donor for a really sweet Jap Bike build right? I know, I know – go ahead and hold off on the hate mail for just a few days…. So we have been plugging away at […]