Hall of Fame

On this page is a showing of some of the bikes we have built and some of the bikes built by our customers using our frames and parts.

If you have a bike with one of our frames, send us a pic & we'll post it on here.

Murrels's rigid evo chop.

Billys Bobber

Marks Mutaneous Yam - finished.

Darrens FXRST

Stax's Dyna softail

Nige's XLRST

Looks like Nige has finished the rubbermount sportster bike that we did the rolling chassis for in 2008. Spotted at a local bike show Easter 09. See the frame setup on the 'work in progress' page.

Colins Dyna 

Marvos Triumph

Heres a bike thats a bit late to the party; Marvo conceived this Triumph  project back in about 1996 and we made him the frame for it that year. Using GSXR forks & wheels, an offset engine and oil in frame, this is a modern take on the classic Bonneville. Scotty did a lot of work on it too and it was soon on the road. It was featured in BSH & won many prizes. Unfortunately about 5 or 6 years ago, poor ol' Marvo got Volvo-ed on it, damaging himself & the bike. Feeling the need to ressurect the bike, Marvo re-established contact this year and we basically replaced the whole front half of the frame. Marvo plans a different paint scheme this time & we look forward to seeing it back on the road.

Billys bike rises again!

We built Billys bike 5 years ago (see below), and although it didn't need a makeover, 'circumstances' forced another rebuild. Be careful out there Billy!

Andy's Rubbermount Sportster.

Andy came from a sportsbike background; he wanted to do a sportster that was fast & handled well and was a bit different. We built a chrome moly frame and used a combination of Buell & FXR parts to rubbermount the engine. We modified a GSXR swingarm and basically set up the rolling chassis. Matts engineering built up a rather special engine. We met Andy at a recent event. He's very pleased with the result. To say the least.

Daves Long Shovel

We built Dave the frame & one or two bits for this in September '05. We'd almost forgotten about it until this pic appeared on the HDRCGB site from the '07 Oswestry run. What a cutie! Photo by Baza.

Martins Mutant

Another fine mutant style build up. Martins from Ireland, we built him the frame, oiltank and other parts in November '06. Looks like Martin has made an excellent job of it.  Click on the pic for more.

 Dakota Black revisited

Jocks last ride.

Jock passed away last October. A regular customer who became a friend; a big man in every sense, and a long-time chopper club member. Seen here picking up the 'best chop' award at the '06 Bulldog bash. A full account of Jocks swansong bike was published in BSH Dec. '06. Rest in peace, mate.

Briz's Beezer Bobber

We built this in 2006, really as an accessory for our '59 El-Camino pick up, but its attracted quite a lot of attention, having made the front cover of 2 magazines. Made a change from doing HDs.

Click the pic for the full story

Teds Shovel

Finally done, Teds rigid shovel has been awhile in the gestation, but well worth the wait. Click the pic for more on the Krazy Horse site. The rolling chassis is on the Rigids page.

Mark's Nitrous Nightmare!

Mark (thats him) kindly sent us a CD of his finished bike. He tells the story:

"Built in the comfort of the dining room from only the cheapest components, it finally chugged into life on the 27th of April. An uncomfortable evil handling pig-on-stilts, the subtlety of Hitler with a hangover, and I love it."

Can you spot the nitrous bottles set into the tank? See the frame on the Rigids page

Harry's  KH BSA A65

Harry is a customer of Krazy Horse who having seen their Zero sportster, decided that this was the way he'd like his BSA project to go. Krazy horse asked us to produce a suitable frame (see the rolling chassis in the 'work in progress' section) and this is the finished result. Paint was in this instance deemed unnecessary! Click on the pic for more images on the KH site.  Oh yeah; thanks for the single malt, Harry!

Neil's Mutant Sportster

O'l Neil's done it again! Sold his Shovel bobber (below) and got the hankering for the Redneck Mutant style of thing. We made him the frame & oiltank in September '06, and sure enough, it was done in about February '07. And done very well by the looks of it

When we made Robs mutant style frame (below), we never thought we'd do another one like it. If we had, we'd have recorded some dimensions and saved having to figure it all out again! Straight after doing Neil's frame, we did Martin's (above). See the Rigids frame page.

Nigel's FXR Softail

Nigel is a regular customer who likes to have multiple projects on the go. He came to see us in the summer of '05 with the intention of getting a new chop done by September, (which was about 6 weeks away!) so he could take it with him on a planned tour of Germany.  We pulled our fingers out and got the rolling chassis done by the beginning of August. Nigel had an FXR donor bike, so all that was necessary was paint, polish, wiring and final assembly. Nige's a sprayer so the paint was no problem. To see the finished bike, you'd never guess that there was any haste in its build, but then, this isn't exactly Nige's first project!

FXR Softails

John Dekko's Shovel

We made the frame for Johns  shovel back in December '04. He soon finished the bike and sent us this pic, which we saved but forgot to post it it here for some reason. Well its here now!. A radical 8" stretch in the (single) down tube and 12" over forks. 

Cool bike, John.

Graham's XLST

While we're being forgetful, we're also late in putting this one up. Its the XLST on the 'work in progress' page. Graham certainly made a nice job of it, even if it did take a little while to finish..

Griff's big-tube Shovel

With a good few miles on his last project, (see his softail panhead below),  Griff set about building a fat (280) tyre, big tube shovel rigid. We made the frame in the summer of 2004 & he finished it early 2006 Nice going Griff.

Rob's Mutant style Buell: 'Rum'un'

Rob was particularly taken with the Texas based Redneck Engineering Mutant style, but not with Rednecks frame prices, or their lack of interest in selling outside the US! He brought us a pic & we made him one. Top Suffolk chop builder Morph did the rest, and very nicely too.

Tony's Merseyside monster

Tony & Tia are a colourful pair of scouse characters;  they built this neat chop around one of our solid mount softail frames and by the sound of it are well chuffed with the result. Rightly so, we reckon.

Vince's new Shovel

Toby's XL Softail

'The best bike in the world' is how Toby feels about his completed sportster softail urban warrior, & he was kind enough to send us some shots of it. A great 'dont mess with me' bike.

Neil's Bobber

Neil is a mate of Vince's (see above & below) who came to us in September '05 with an order for a wishbone rigid frame. Barely 4 months later, here it is finished, a beautiful classic bobber. 

John Ingrouille's sporty

Another quick worker, We made the rigid frame & oil tank for John in October '04. In Feb '05 he sent us this pic of the finished result. What's more, I think I remember that this was his first custom build! Good work John.

Neil Page's rigid Dyna chop

We got an order from Black Bear towards the end of 2003 for a couple of chop frames. One of which was this, an evo dyna rigid. The Page family all have Harleys and It became clear when doing some framework for Neil's brother Mark, that Neil was the man behind this frame order. Heard no more until the finished bike was featured in BSH Aug 2005. Lookin' good Neil. 

Photo nicked out of BSH

Bean's Zero Shovel

Shortly after finishing the frame for the Krazy Horse Zero sportster, (see below)  Bean came and asked us for a similar frame for his shovel, but with a different gooseneck to the KH frame. Bean used a good few hotrod parts which make the bike stand out even more. Like the KH bike, its been around the show circuit and had a lot of magazine coverage.

The Krazy Horse Zero bike

The story of this bike has been published all over the place; Paul, Krazy Horse's main man had an Ironhead sportster kicking about. Inspired by the decidedly different stuff that Zero Engineering of Japan were doing, He brought over a book of their work as reference, and we built the frame. A highly successful bike which has won many shows. It really put KH on the map. There are too many clever tricks to mention here; check out : http://www.krazyhorse.co.uk/ 

Smileys Evo

Smiley is Bean's (above) brother. He came to see us with a shovel swingarm frame to be raked and modified to accept an Evo engine. Here's the end result; one tough looking chop.

A year after collecting his Evo rigid frame (see below) and 10 months after finishing the bike, Vince was ready to start another project and asked us for another, less raked frame to take a panhead he had sourced. Once again, Vince completed this neat bobber in record time. Featured in BSH 248.

Black Heat

 We built this in 2003 alongside Billy's bike (see below) Indeed the frame setup is very similar, but this one has a 240 rear wheel. It started with what appeared to be a good deal on a used Boz-built 98" S&S motor. We used a Zodiac 45mm offset spacer with support bearing to get enough clearance for a 240x 16  Metzler rear tyre. We made a set of solid wheels to suit. The frontend started life on a kawasaki ZRX1100 and we made the 6 over 43mm tubes for them. The black paintjob has subtle ghost flames on the tank. when we got it on the road it was clear that although powerful, the engine was not well at all. It smoked and rattled, so we took it to top fuel drag racer Chris Stebbing along with parts to replace everything inside the engine. Chris did a good job and now the engine runs perfectly. 

Tony's 'Fighter

Tonys the Suffolk Chopper Club rep. He does a lot of miles. Quickly. He came to us with the remains of the frame (not one of ours!) from the original incarnation of this bike which had cracked up badly thru poor design and inadequate materials. We built him a much beefier one as seen here. Tony reports a big improvement; You'd hope so - anything is an improvement over having your frame almost falling in half!

Griff's Pan

Griff came to see us shortly after we moved to Norfolk in 1998. He'd commissioned the build up of an all new 80" panhead lump from a european source and wanted to mount it in a  softail frame to take a 200 rear tyre. Despite working out of the country for 6 months of the year, he got it done by spring '99. Griff has been winning prizes wherever he goes with it ever since. 

Gordon & Tracy's Outfit

'Subtle as a punch in the throat' was the description in the BSH feature back in '98. Gordon needed something to get his family to all the rallys that they attend each year, and thought a sidecar outfit would be a more unusual approach than the obvious trike solution. We made him an FXR softail frame, the yokes and oiltank. he then handed it all to the guys at Unit sidecars who did their stuff. Its that eye-searing paintjob thats the icing on the cake, though.