Break Time...

The new GKM just arrived...

41 FLTT Unfinished Details Corrected

 Cad rivet heads and bare sprocket

Add a little Secret Faux Parkerize

 Cheating

 Once it's all together no one's the wiser...

Back together with touch ups and screws

I finally got up the nerve to put the three Parkerized screws in the rear fender. I left the three factory holes for the seat yoke bracket in the fender for authenticity...I just couldn't get myself to test the paint by inserting and tightening the screws. Mark form Twisted Customs (who painted it) always assured me it would be fine...I am just not used to shiny painted stuff...
Well I pulled off the rear wheel to get the job done proper like. It all worked out fine as Mark said. While the wheel was off I took the opportunity to fix up a couple other things that have been bugging me. The cad rivet heads and bare metal (new) sprocket that my buddy had installed with a rivet press 10 years ago. That was before I realized that I would care about the shape or finish of a rivet head on a sprocket! Damn shiny bikes...
So I used a trick I picked up to cheat with Parkerizing. Gun Coat. It really calls for heating during application but for stuff like this I find brushing it on at room temp works OK. It's a little bluer then Parkerize but its the closest thing I've found to cheat with. You don't want to use it on anything that stands right out unless you don't care and just need a metal finish. I've used it the proper way heating and coating and it works good.
I also touched up some areas of the frame with black enamel and swapped out a couple of painted bolts with Parkerized ones...what the hell is happening to me???????
I gotta get on the "Dirty Nine" and take a filthy oil spewing, smoke belching ride to the Tavern!

46 FL Spare Plug

An outtake from when I shot the Knuckle for GKM #7...2008

Russ Paradise 3 Years Gone...

I can't believe it's been 3 years since I lost my buddy Russ Paradise. I still miss hanging with him and watching him ride that WLDR! RIP Russ.
http://knucklebuster1939.blogspot.com/2009/04/in-memory-of-russ-paradise.html

Indian Scout Motor and Magneto ID... Help Needed!

I bought this Indian Scout Motor years ago and am looking for any additional info on it or the Magneto / Dynamo that was on it. What I have found out so far is that the motor (according to the Oregon Trail chapter AMCA Indian Serial Number chart) is the following:
1928 Model GEP/101 Engine Number Range – DGP100-DGP4317, Horse Power 6.61

Description: 45” 101 Scout changeover year from sf Scout, mostly assumed 1929

Here's what I think I remember that I was told when I bought it:

The guy I got it from, I believe, told me it was used as a hillclimb or racing engine of some kind and told me the name of the guy's shop in NY (I think) that it came from. I just don't remember any of the facts...wonder why?

The Motor has 1/2 inch stroker plates under the cylinders and the Magneto/Dynamo is a Robert Bosch Germany. The pics show all the detail of markings on the mag.

Any Indian/Magneto experts out there? Help!

Dave from Frisco's 47 Knuckles

I met Dave at the Love Cycles Party in Arizona back in February. I wrote about it in the post I did last month. It was a bizarre coincidence as to how we met regarding the Lightening Bolt he painted on his rear fender that he had copied from a picture of my "Dirty Nine" Knuckle that day...
Anyway Dave sent me some pictures this morning of two of his 47 Knuckles, one being this blue 47 Barn Fresh Knuckle he recently acquired. I immediately recognized the bike as one a friend of mine (from the left coast) purchased from some Kansas boys in Wauseon Ohio in 2010 (Check out my post from July 21 2010 http://knucklebuster1939.blogspot.com/2010/07/wauseon-2010-swap-meet.html). I loved this knuckle when I saw it and was very familiar with the bike. I had taken a number of pictures of it back then. I never really knew what became of it until this morning... crazy coincidences just keep on comin'...
Thanks for the pictures Dave!

1947 Chassis with Very Late 47 Frame

I forgot I took these pictures... just stumbled across 'em. My buddy wanted some pictures of the Very Late 1947 FL frame neck castings so while I was at it I took some pics of the chassis. I think I may have posted pics of this chassis before. This has the white sheet metal and Hollywood bars that were on the first Knuckle I built as a teenager.