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Custom Built Motorcycles : Bobber Ashcroft Hellbilly Knucklehead Harley bobber fat tire Flathead Power Knuckle

$33,000

Annandale, New Jersey

Here for sale is a really awesome bike with a looooong story behind it!! The bike was born to a guy named Tim Conder and brought to life by Lynn Ashcroft. Here is the account from Tim about the start of the bike. "* I've wanted to own a motor with Anders' brand new dual carb knuckleheads ever since they came out. FLATHEAD POWER IS THE S**T. I love dual magnetos so it had to have a big S&S shovel lower end.* I dig the industrial look of frame castings and old parts like springers. Weerd Bros. was a stateside source for the only frame right for the bike. It was a 230 rigid using all the castings and dimensions of a stock knuckle frame. It came from Sweden and I'm sorry for not remembering where. I want to say SJP.* The 230 Avon just came out and big wheels look TOUGH. I bought the rim dis-assembled minus chrome from Billy Lane. * The surface area of these wide rims, and Danny Franssen using coordinated color on his bike rear rims eventually led to the checkered flag rear wheel. I had my friend Flav (a math genius scientist) give me the checker size to match the diameter and keep two white checkers from ending up next to each other. I laced and trued it in the frame.* The 8-Ball spool front wheel was a V-Twin part. I dis-assembled it and painted it like it is, making the "8" an oval so it looked faster.* The bike was going to be straight black, with the 8 only on the left tank. For me that's where the "8-Ball" stuff would end. Ashcrofts painter wound up painting the tanks and rear fender.*My usual stuff... Moon tank, drag bars, no front brake, minimal everything. During this I discovered you can grind the posts of a V-Twin springer top tree and (after cutting them in half) you can weld any handle bar to them! So drags can be super low on the forks.* After rough mock-up and a couple loose sketches, the only other suggestions I made were stainless shotgun exhaust, almost no seat, and to mix up the textures of the chrome, raw/polished aluminum and cast iron. NO "blacking out".I hung onto it for a couple years, tinkering when I had time (we never get to build our own stuff!). When ATF ran out of money (again) it was the first thing to go. I was glad Ashcroft wound up with it mainly because we were friends, he had respect for the project (no "faux" concrete splash graphix) and the resources to really do it right. This is where my involvement ends (in 2000 I think). MORE ABOUT THE MOTOR-The cams an S&S 514 I think. It was '98 when I ordered the motor so my memory might be off. It's an S&S shortblock shovel kit. I had to order the FHP cylinders with a 3 5/8s bore and pull the shovel cylinders off. " SINCE 2000The bike went to Lynn up in Portland Oregon and he finished it up, went on the show circuit and then was sold. (I believe in 2004)That's where I lose track of her.... Until 2 years ago when I picked it up where it was sitting in a garage. Definitely not for the faint of heart, would probably need some changes to become a daily rider. - Jockey Shift with Suicide Clutch.- Rear brake only with sportier. (brake rotor is also sprocket)The end pictures are from last week when I pulled it out of the garage. Since 2004 it has built up some patina (corrosion) on some of the hardware. I pulled the tanks off to show anything negative that I can but as of this week the bars are now painted and it is reassembled. I will get a few more pics of post tuneup this week.Does not include the billet primary insert shown in the white pictures. I have a MSO from Ashcroft but the bike is NOT TITLED. You will need to check your state to figure out what you would need to do to have this titled but I was just in touch with Lynn last week and he said he would be willing to help the new owner get that straightened out. This bike really needs to be back in the public eye! I'm selling to purchase an airplane, hobbies have changed.CALL OR TXT ME ANYTIME @ 412.996.9967