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Twistedspoke100
05 Mastiff
So is the trans mounting plate something you hand fabricated or did it come out of another bike?
You can buy weld in plates actually. Something like this would at least get you started.
Transmission Mounting Plate For Harley Big Twin 5/6 Speed
TRANSMISSION MOUNTING PLATE FOR HARLEY BIG TWIN 5/6 SPEED USED FOR BUILDING A CUSTOM FRAME WITH A HARLEY DAVIDSON STYLE SOFTAIL TRANSMISSION.
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Haha dont scratch your red thing over there....you went nuts on that paint!
Thats some crazy machine right there, one hell of a snorkel. I think driver needs a snorkel at that height!
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It's a matte black with metal flake in it. In the sun it looks lighter more like a denim harley, if it's cloudy it's darker.
I didn't do straight gloss black cause I already got two of them. Thought about Satin Black but settled on a matte.
Matte is a tough color, you can't buff it, polish or wax it. It's like a pair of jeans when it wears there's no saving it. So will see how long it lasts, I can always repaint it.
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Those were some awesome pictures Eric! Thx for sharing them with us all. 
Ha ha i had a buddy of mine bought a matte finish harley few years back....he and i where working at his dads house on the rock crawler we was building and we decided we was going to go riding so he called his wife and told her to get ready for a bike ride that we would be home in a couple of hours....well while we was gone she decided she would wax it....with this being said he had only had this bike 4 days lol....anyway she had put wax all over it and then was going to come back and wipe it off and she hit panic mode cause it wasnt coming off...we pulled up and she was crying....damn it was funny....it was charcoal grey that now at this time it was basically light gray and in some places damn near white lol...so we jumped in the truck and went and got carburetor cleaner....we got it all off and that ended her motorcycle cleaning days....hell he laughed to but she said im not cleaning another bike ever.....
Jersey Big Mike
100K mile club
Yeah but imagine how well that wax would have protected it -- and he'd have known where the wax was missing and needed to be re-applied!
Chong
U-238
Great job Eric ( no surprise) .
You applied vision, skill, knowledge, expertise and your commitment to quality. To name a few .
(I can talk this way cause I'm a old fart )
Great looking bike , like all aspects including springer , tank , rims and 140 !
Awesome inspiration and demonstration of what's possible !
You applied vision, skill, knowledge, expertise and your commitment to quality. To name a few .
(I can talk this way cause I'm a old fart )
Great looking bike , like all aspects including springer , tank , rims and 140 !
Awesome inspiration and demonstration of what's possible !
Here is a little under the hood shot porn for your Saturday night.
I wanted to try the new m-unit. It's a good unit but the with the amount of work to build a custom harness plus the additional cost to solve the rear tail light/blinker/turn issue..Ill leave our the details, because I really can't recommend this unit over what is our there now. Axles EHC is a bargain and a half. If we were still in stuck back in the old Wires Plus days I would consider this. Lol
The new m unit (version 2) has push-in style connectors. the original munit was screw in connectors. While I haven't had any issues yet I just wonder if they will become problematic. I have been looking at the munit for 5+ years and saw this change to push-in and I just never had a reason to try it. I figured on this bike what the hell, I had already looked into it and spent enough time thinking about it figured I would check it out.
I suppose it's a little easier to diagnose issues as the app tells you any faults/shorts and on what circuit.
Only nice benefit to this unit is an integrated Bluetooth Interface with an alarm function. You can set the alarm on an app on your phone to a light/medium/severe mode. It will sense if the bike tires start rolling on the light mode, severe is a little too much. You can set it up to send you notifications via the app.
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I wanted to try the new m-unit. It's a good unit but the with the amount of work to build a custom harness plus the additional cost to solve the rear tail light/blinker/turn issue..Ill leave our the details, because I really can't recommend this unit over what is our there now. Axles EHC is a bargain and a half. If we were still in stuck back in the old Wires Plus days I would consider this. Lol
The new m unit (version 2) has push-in style connectors. the original munit was screw in connectors. While I haven't had any issues yet I just wonder if they will become problematic. I have been looking at the munit for 5+ years and saw this change to push-in and I just never had a reason to try it. I figured on this bike what the hell, I had already looked into it and spent enough time thinking about it figured I would check it out.
I suppose it's a little easier to diagnose issues as the app tells you any faults/shorts and on what circuit.
Only nice benefit to this unit is an integrated Bluetooth Interface with an alarm function. You can set the alarm on an app on your phone to a light/medium/severe mode. It will sense if the bike tires start rolling on the light mode, severe is a little too much. You can set it up to send you notifications via the app.
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Minuteman
Well-Known Member
While riding from Eric's to the farm in Arkansas, I had the pleasure of riding the new bike for about 60-70 miles. The cornering with the springer front end was tight and the turning radius is far better then the K-9 and the bike also felt much lighter and easy to handle. This bike had so much power with the 140 cubic inch motor, that while riding the engine had no trouble at 75-80 and that was in 5th gear. never made it to 6th. What a ride. Thank you for allowing me to ride this great creation.
CURDOG
Active Member
From the front of the tank, over the top and down to the back of the seat is a great curve line and the springer looks killer. Nice job!This was a complete ground-up build, took a while just working on the weekends on it.
ProjectX
Project X Build Frame Up
I wanted to keep it clean, the lines on the 08-11 Pitbull tank are a dead match fit for the frame in my opinion. HDM is currently finishing up the mounting kit to allow anyone with a 06-11K9 or Ridgeback bolt this style tank on. Give people a little chance to do a makeover. 08-11 Pitbull...www.bigdogpartskingpin.com
I was going to do this whole big write-up and I spent a few hours on it and it's not done. But I don’t think anyone will read it so I just scraped it for now. Maybe I’ll post it later.
Figured I would get out a post for the folks who didn't get a chance to see it @ MastiffDaves back in Sept.
Part of my idea on this build ended up with an effort to make some parts available to others to modify their 06-11 K9 or Ridgeback fairly easily. Obviously as time/money permits you can put anything you dream together. The original Big Dog’s are a great platform, and as they get up in age, change hands, and get beat on parts need to be replaced and bikes need to get fixed. I believe strongly that something assembled by your own two hands will bring you tremendous more enjoyment in your own garage than buying something. Anyone can do it, if anyone knows my background I am not a mechanic. I just had a passion for working on my bikes and it steamrolled. Just takes time, research, drive, determination & a little common sense! And there's folks out there that would argue about my common sense, and I wouldn't disagree. Not sure how much of that I have either.
I wanted to keep it clean, the lines on the 08-11 Pitbull tank are a dead match fit for the frame in my opinion. HDM is currently finishing up the mounting kit to allow anyone with a 06-11K9 or Ridgeback bolt this style tank on. Give people a little chance to do a makeover. 08-11 Pitbull tank is also 4.7 gallons so it's 1/2 gallon bigger than the K9 or Ridgeback tanks. I have put exactly 4.0 gallons in the tank twice at fuel ups and haven't hit reserve yet. I did hit the reserve when I was doing some testing and I drained it to see what I was working with and it was about 1/2 gallon of reserve.
I stuck with black cables and black braided oil lines & did all the electrical wiring myself so it's all in black braided cabling to blend in. The stainless braided would stick out like a sore thumb in my opinion. Narrow 2" open belt drive, narrow front end, keeping it clean and tight. Kind of a little old school/new school mashup with a narrower front end and a 300 tire.
The 140” will fit a K9/Ridgeback frame but with a little caution, rocker box gaskets can’t be changed without taking the motor out of the frame. It’s a tight FIT! You can't even get a finger between the frame and the cover it's about 1/8". Also, coil cover and air cleaner will need to be changed out as the heads are so tall the bolt holes on the original units won’t fit. This coil cover mount is actually an older model coil cover but it is made out of billet and after elongating the holes it would fit.
I’ll let you all know how the 140” high compression motor (10.8:1) holds up, bikes first trip was 1,000 miles to Arkansas and back. I managed to sneak in 250 miles first before taking off, so I finished breaking in the motor on the way there. It's rated for more HP (160) & Torque (170) than I'll probably ever use. It has not once gave me any signs that it wasn't asking for more throttle.
The Texas hand made Three Two Choppers custom springer is perfect! Handles like a dream, feels lighter, tighter in the slow turns (gas pumps) & steady as a rock at 90+ MPH. Rake & Trail was changed just a touch, which makes the slow turning easier. Ride height stayed the same and the bike is about 1.5" overall longer in length. Has Ohlins bushings, which are oil impregnated so there is zero maintenance required, no grease can be used it screws up the bushings.
It's still a little work in progress have a few things to finish up this winter, I am working on a front fender setup to use for long trips. I don't think springers should have fenders so this one will be as small as I possibly can make and easy on/off. Just to keep me or the bike from getting rooster tailed if I get caught in the rain, which you are almost guaranteed to do when you do long trips.
- Frame: K9 Frame
- Gas Tank: 08-11 Pitbull (Gas tank conversion kit coming soon from HDM)
- Engine: Ultima 140” (170 Ft/lbs Torque/160 HP)
- Transmission: Ultima RSD 6 Speed
- Belt Drive: Ultima 2”
- Front end: Three Two Choppers Wishbone Springer (www.threetwochoppers.com)
- Wheels & Rotors: HDM
- Handlebars: HDM
- Hand Grips/Pegs - Banded Style
- Mirrors - HDM Old Skool
- Seat: Original K9 Seat modified to fit gas tank
- Wiring - M-unit
- Exhaust - FSD (I am probably going with a different exhaust if I can make something else fit, my first two I tried didn't fit as the 140" heads are too wide)
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Cheers!