Model 1 Ready to Rock

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The Right Bobber @ the Right Time
We are all looking for alternatives to do more with less. The Model 1 embodies our current state of affairs with a traditional old-school design wrapped in a flat black tuxedo that is available at just $15,995.

Our custom-production Digger delivers over 50+ mpg, reduces the cost of insurance and enhances your commuting fun factor.

The satisfying basso profondo from the D&D exhaust and the lightning quick response at the throttle delivers an adrenaline induce smile that is hard to erase during your blasts around town.

And the best thing, only $15,995 for a custom Harley-Davidson powered motorcycle .

Checkout the Model 1 in the Brass Balls Bobbers’ Flickr Gallery.

About Brass Balls Bobbers & Choppers
With a strong team at the helm and a slate of innovative, high-performance designs that blend vintage with contemporary, Darwin Motorcycles is primed and quickly becoming one of the leading motorcycle shops in the country attracting new riders and setting trends through their Above Average Bobber program .

Hank Young’s Disk Drive

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Hank Young creates internal-combustion confections that allude to the legendary grandeur of the past. He has appropriated a sweet spot in our collective consciousness for the way automobiles and motorcycles of the Jazz Age flaunted their mechanismo. Whereas a chopper, by general consensus, is supposed to assault one’s sensibilities on all counts, a Hank Young example takes a more subtle and less intimidating approach. It makes you want to pull up a chair, pour some whiskey into a tumbler, and ponder its intricacies at your leisure. Only then would you be truly ready to ride it. Like a Swiss chronograph with multiple complications (stop hands, date, alarm, moon phase, alternate time zones, windows, and sub-dials), a Hank Young motorcycle exemplifies an excess of effort to reach a modest result, beauty notwithstanding. True to chopper culture and his own hotrod roots, there is nothing practical about his results, no more so than one needs a $50,000 wristwatch to tell time. But they show how what is unnecessary can just as much be the mother of invention, if sublime satisfaction is the upshot. Young’s bikes are neither replicas nor facsimiles, but the tangible evidence of an imagination that evokes old motorcycles by reinventing them. They are classy, if not classical. In other words, they never looked this good before. Still, Young celebrates motorcycles with an attention to historical detail that strikes a postmodern chord. Plainly products of the present day, they look as though they might have been ridden by Jules Verne, looking forward a century ago.

coles bike (my pix)

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@ the Grease monkey mayhen

Cole Foster Moon rockt.

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16th annual YOKOHAMA HOT ROD custom show 2007 December 2,2007 at The Pacifico YOKOHAMA MOONEYES

Cole Foster Moon rockt.

Originally uploaded by makeshiftpipes420

16th annual YOKOHAMA HOT ROD custom show 2007 December 2,2007 at The Pacifico YOKOHAMA MOONEYES

Just in from Da Boss, Dar Holdsworth. He entered the World Championships and his Military Bobber came in 3rd.

He also attended Bikernet Brouhaha! and came back with a number of snaps from the event. Checkout his Sturgis pictures and Bobber by clicking here.

You can WIN this Brass Balls Bobbers / IronWorks Magazine giveaway by clicking here for details.

You can’t officially begin a bike project until you’ve got a place to hang all the bits and pieces. That, of course, means you must start with a frame, and that’s where Part 1 of our giveaway project bike begins. Like all of Brass Balls Bobbers’ frames, this essential foundation for our bike is made of hand-bent tubing that’s hand-fit and hand-welded by a team boasting years of experience at this sort of thing.

In fact, BBB’s frame production is managed by Sam Wills, a 3-time world champion in Top Fuel drag racing. Sam’s been building race bikes and street bikes for 30 years, so he knows a thing or three about frame geometry and material selection.

The accompanying photos and captions explain how each frame—in this case our giveaway bike’s frame—is made.

Brass Balls CNC-machines all motor mounts, tranny plates, axle mounts and steering heads. All material used is either cold-finished flat stock or tubing. All tubes are precisely measured and bent by hand.

All frame tubes are made of high-content carbon (for stronger welds) 1026 DOM (drawn over mandrel) mild steel with .156” wall thickness. The backbone is 1-1/2” diameter, all other tubing is 1”.

The frame tubes are notched so the rear axle plates seat inside the tube before it is welded on both sides. This gives the frame greater strength, especially at the rigid tail section where torque is felt most.

To assure accuracy and straightness, the crew at Brass Balls Bobbers precisely measure all the dimensions, including the axle plates as shown here.

Welding the steering head is a critical step because correct steering geometry is so important to a bike’s handling performance. All parts are TIG welded by hand to assure complete heat penetration for strength.

We want you to be able to register and insure your bike, so like all Brass Balls bikes, this one will come with a vehicle identification number (VIN), which is stamped into the frame.

We always appreciate quality workmanship. Here we get a close-up look at the weld joints of our giveaway bike. If there’s ever a case for “no paint,” this is it!

You can WIN this Brass Balls Bobbers / IronWorks Magazine giveaway by clicking here for details.