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Buell : Other HARLEY BUELL CUSTOM TRACKER BIKE BUILT BY PAUL CAVALLO. LOW RESERVE SUBLIME FANS

Buell : Other HARLEY BUELL CUSTOM TRACKER BIKE BUILT BY PAUL CAVALLO. LOW RESERVE SUBLIME FANS

$15,000

Fishers, Indiana

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THIS STATEMENT IS STRAIGHT FROM WRITE UP IN MAGAZINE ABOUT THE BIKE. YOU CAN ALSO GOOGLE BUELL TRACKER BIKE TO COME UP WITH EVEN MORE INCREDIBLE STORIES.. V-twin Racer from Another Mother Daniel Ludwigsen’s Wraith-inspired Buell Bobber » We’re probably just going through one of those cyclical phases where many, many customs are being built to be ridden in anger as well as a cute thing to look at and that’s okay by me. I never got that memo back in 2002 that said custom bikes were no longer going to be ably ridden by other than about six or seven skilled people. Wide, fat rear tires, frames stretched beyond belief and then stretched some more, forks reaching for the horizon, and a turning radius equivalent to an oil tanker doing a 180 at sea does not make for an easy riding machine. No surprise then that people are turning to bikes like our Spitfire Motorcycles’ Supertracker feature bike that combines custom looks, awesome performance, and a hell of a lot of fun to ride in one ready for celebrating St. Paddy’s Day package (except for the booze part). View all 8 images What Spitfire’s Paul Cavallo has done here for Supertracker’s owner, Mike “Cheez” Brown, is to take one customer’s dream of “I want a V-twin that I can jump” and turn it into a fire-breathing reality. What Mike ended up with is a bike that looks ready to travel back to the ‘80s when super motards (or supermoto depending on your preference) were created for a made-for-TV-sport called Superbikers that failed here initially before a resurgence in Europe brought it back to America. Toss in some street tracker vibes just because you can and that’s where the name Supertracker must come from. Obviously Paul didn’t just modify a Sportster frame for this duty, but started from a clean sheet of paper or a pile of tubing or whatever he starts from when he’s building something that never existed before. Check out the wicked long travel and beefy inverted fork along with the braced swingarm and monoshock rear suspension Paul designed and you can se this is not your typical street tracker custom, but a bike built to fall back down to earth safely after a big jump or two or three or more. I’d go for the “more” aspect. Getting it up to speed to jump is a Spitfire-modified 1203cc Buell engine ripped out of an innocent Buell Thunderbolt for repurposing in Mike’s bike. Real XR-style exhausts by SuperTrapp look just peachy and enable Mike to dial in the engine’s audio output to whatever his mood is by simply adding or subtracting plates. Hey, a guy’s gotta look good and sound good before, during, and after any jump. Making it look good is the handmade bodywork by Jason Wilson that was treated to a dose of Wayne Wreck and Sweet Baby James paint to bring either an ode to some body being Irish or just a bit of Shamrock-induced luck to the bike. I’m going with the luck part as jumping anything this big and fast involves a bit ‘o luck as well as skill in landing safely over and over. Hey, everybody’s got some lucky thing on there bike or some ritual of luck they do when it comes time to fly. If for some reason you don’t, I’d advise you to get one quickly as you don’t want to push your luck anymore than what you have already. The end result of all of this work culminated in a “Best in Class” and “Outstanding Engineering” awards at the 2010 Oakland Roadster Show along with a well-deserved third place finish in the 2012 Ultimate Builder Show finals of the Performance Custom class. Sounds like a win-win all around for everybody involved to me. For more info on Spitfire Motorcycles, visit www.spitfiremotorcycles.com. Some features roll out of my pen like a smooth ride through Colorado’s San Juan Mountains heading north for the Badlands. Others burn out, like a high standard shotgun blasting away. This one feels more like a sawed-off shotgun about to unleash eight rounds of double-ought buck. Let’s hit it. The former master designer and fabricator of Hell Bound Steel built this wild bike. The company went belly up when the banking industry put half the companies in America out of business because of their greedy habits. The manufactured custom industry is gone except for Big Dog, Brass Balls, and Sucker Punch. But let’s drop the negative waves. Paul Cavallo and his dad downsized their business to a manageable size. They manufactured products for many of the companies in the industry, including WCC, and you know what happened. But they’re still at it, making parts under the motto: American Made for Anyone. They have all the capabilities to build custom frames for anything from Harleys to British bikes and Yamahas. Eventually they made the decision to kick off their own line of products, including girder frontends, foot controls – WCC style, wheels, and fenders, under the name Spitfire Motorcycles. They also build custom bikes for customers like Mike “Cheez” Brown, who’s worked with bands such as Kid Rock, Korn, etc. Paul and Cheez ran in similar musical circles as kids, hanging out with the same bands. Motorcycles were always a major priority with Cheez. “Life is all about riding motorcycles and f*@king, with some music in the background,” Cheez said. He rides anything with two wheels, including dirt bikes, Harleys, and Vespas. His dad was a professional motorcycle drag racer and died leaving the track during Daytona Bike Week in 1978. Cheez has always been a huge fan of flat track racing and XR 750s, so Paul went to work creating a one-off hot rod, state of the art, flat track racer for the street. Paul is a dry sort, but he never stops thinking. His eyes dart around the room during conversations, as if his creative juices are on constant high alert. He started this project in March of ‘09 with a donor Buell. He thought he would use several of the parts, but ended up with only the driveline and rear brake. He built the frame three times with the input and computer savvy of Race Tech, the suspension masters. “Race Tech designed the one-off mono- shock, and we designed and rebuilt the frame and swingarm several times to make it work perfectly in any road conditions,” explained Paul. Cheez isn’t a long legged man, so the bike could not be tall and clumsy, but still had to handle in the dirt or on the freeway. “We ended up building a 120 horsepower, mono- shock hot rod that you could jump, but it still has a low center of gravity,” stated Paul. The Race Tech frontend has multi-valves designed to allow the fork oil to flow at specific rates until the travel exceeds 15-20-25 mm. Then, suspension action, adhering to the road conditions for the best possible ride. Paul said that it took seven months and several trips to their plant for Race Tech to complete the job. Each time the bike was mounted in a fixture, computer stickers were applied to monitor the chassis movement under varying loads and road surfaces. Every delicate movement was monitored with laser cameras as each component was hydraulically compressed. With each set of tests, they altered the neck angle, the height of the forks and mono-shock, and the length of the backbone of the frame and swingarm. Plus the axle position on the swingarm was adjusted. “Race Tech prints out the data from any variation in the chassis,” Paul said. “Then they compare their findings against years of research to calculate the rates of travel, performance, and handling.” Since Cheez is Scottish, he is a major Steve McQueen and Evel Knievel fan, so the bike, the “Super Tracker,” contains elements of both men as a tribute. This bike isn’t just an oddball custom built for a guy who plays a guitar solo in the Sublime song, “What I got.” He’s all about motorcycles. His partner in biz is Henry Nicholas, the engineer creator of Broadband, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi who is also a renegade. Here’s a recent mention in Forbes: This is a shocking turn of events for Nicholas, considering the traction two indictments levied against him in federal court in 2008 got with the media. The indictments, which made him out to be a hooker-loving, drugged-up billionaire who dabbled in securities fraud, essentially cemented his image as a dirty guy – or at least someone who couldn’t handle success. But late last week, federal prosecutors asked Judge Cormac J. Carney to dismiss a four-count indictment that charges Nicholas with drug conspiracy. This request for dismissal came a few weeks after Carney threw out charges o n 21 counts of options backdating and securities fraud against Nicholas and former Broadcom chief financial officer William Ruehle.–Matthew Miller. So, Cheez and Henry are two wild men. Cheez owns several Club Tattoo parlors in Phoenix and Vegas with Shawn and Chester Bennington, the Linkin Park front man, a couple of restaurants and a top selling hair salon. He’s completely sleeved, and is looking to work with Bandit at Bikernet.com to further motorcyclists’ rights. We’ll report on that effort in the near future. Plus, Bandit is building a crazy FXR using Spitfire’s components and a wild single- loop stretched and Frisco’d FXR frame. Hang on for more reports. SuperTracker Tech sheet Owner: Mike “Cheez” Brown city: Fishers, Indiana Fabrication By: Spitfire Motorcycles Year: 2010 Model: Supertracker Time: 17 Months Value: $46,000 Engine Year: 1998 Buell Model: Thunderbolt Builder: Scrotumbuilt Ignition: Dyna Displacement: 1200 pistons: S&S heads: BCR cam(s): One-Off carb: S&S Super E air cleaner: Spitfire/K&N exhaust: Supertrapp primary: HD Transmission Year: 1998 Make: Buell shifting: Standard Frame Year: 2010 Make: Spitfire Motorcycles rake: 28 Degrees stretch: 0 Front End Type: Inverted Cartridge Builder: Race Tech extension: 0 Wheels Front Wheel: Onyx size: 17” Tire: Pirelli Brakes: Nissin rear Wheel: Onyx size: 17” Tire: Pirelli Brakes: Nissin Paint painter: Sweet Baby James/ Wayne Wreck color: Pearl White/ Candy Emerald Type: House of Kolor chroming: Superior Plating Graphics: Wayne Wreck Molding: Sweet Baby James Accessories Bars: Renthal risers: Renthal hand controls: Nissin Gas Tank(s): Sacred Steel Front Fender: None rear Fender: Spitfire Motorcycles seat: Riff Raff Kustom Leather Foot controls: Pro-Tek Oil Tank: Spitfire Motorcycles Mirrors: CRG headlight: Euro Components Taillight: Hitech speedo: none MOTORCYCLE IS LOCATED IN L.A. RIGHT NOW BUT CAN ASSIST IN PICKING BIKE UP FOR SHIPPING On Aug-29-14 at 10:24:35 PDT, seller added the following information: VIN# 4MZRS11J7X3000127