Brass Balls, Bikernet.com and Iron Works Giveaway Bike

Here's the second installment build of the Brass Balls, Bikernet.com and Iron Works magazine giveaway bike. With reader input Dar Holdsworth is building a complete custom ground up Brass Balls Bobber to give to a lucky Iron Works reader. Of course their hoping that lots of folks will subscribe to their magazine in the process. You can enter by going to the Brass Balls website or the Iron Works site by clicking on the banner above.

If the frame can be described as the bike’s skeleton, then certainly the powertrain equates to its muscle. By powertrain, we reference the transmission, primary drive and, of course, the engine. In terms of our Brass Balls Bobber giveaway bike, that ensemble includes one of Baker Drivetrain’s all-new Powerbox 6-speed transmissions, a Tauer Machine primary and clutch assembly, and one of Crazy Horse Motorcycles’ 100-cubic-inch engines.

Since we’re talking about the bike’s muscle, let’s get to the meat of the matter and go right to the engine. Crazy Horse Motorcycles has a somewhat crazy story behind its origins, and the company got its traction when owner John White bought the remaining inventory of Power Plus 100 engine components from the inventory left behindwhen the Indian Motorcycle Company (Gilroy, California, tribe) folded its tent about six years ago.

White and his crew grabbed the remaining engines. The Power Plus was notorious for its crank failures, so White called on Roush Performance, famous for race car motors. “Roush owns Performance Assembly Solutions (PAS) who was directly responsible for the PP engine program,” said Anthony from Crazy Horse. “Neither Roush nor PAS had anything to do with our improvements or changes.”

Below is a list of changes/improvements to our engines (over the original PP 100) in no particular order:

True Internal Bypass oil pump (T.I.B.) with improved internal passages, tighter tolerances and extra sealing
Timing marks on left flywheel now viewable thru standard timing plug location
Premium gaskets
Aerospace quality hardware
Corrected compression ratio
Style changes around lifter blocks and tappet screen plug
Special Viton valve guide seals
Precision machining on cases and all other critical components
Tighter internal tolerances/clearances
Improved steel flywheel assembly
Carrillo style H beam connecting rods 4340 steel
Lifters feature heavy duty circlip (instead of wire clip)
Available with 2 styles of cone ignition housings
Keith Black Hypereutectic pistons
Hastings oil rings
Retro style gray engine option
Flux Capacitor now standard

We're developing some larger displacements that will challenge driveline parts durability yet retain a reasonable service life (unlike the majority of the mega-cube engines out there)

Contact info:

Rolling Thunder LLC
Home of the Crazy Horse Motorcycle and V-Plus engine
http://www.crazyhorsemotorcycles.com
Crazy Horse Motorcycles
19403 72nd Ave S
Kent, WA 98032
253.872.3602
253.872.3604 Fax
707.290.1225 Cell

The new kid on the block, so to speak, is Tauer Machine, a company formed in 2004 by Jason Tauer. TM’s replacement primary drive system is made from 6061-T6 billet aluminum, and uses a clutch with nine-disc Kevlar fiber plates for traction.

Our giveaway bike has TM’s new Renegade system with split belt and split pulleys, and most of all, the retro look.

Baker’s new Powerbox 6-speed transmission completes our powertrain assembly. Looking for a compact 6-speed transmission for your Evo or custom bike? Look no more because this new Baker box is about as small as you’ll find. Baker says it fits all Evolution engines from ’84 to ’99, and it’s available in various configurations and versions. There’s left-side or right-side drive to choose from, in reverse patterns, too. On looks alone, this transmission strikes a classic but all new pose for custom applications.

So there you have it, all you throttle jocks—the state-of-the-art powertrain for our Brass Balls Bobber giveaway bike. If this gathering of iron, alloy and exotic metals and composites doesn’t excite you, then you need a new hobby or you should put those steroids back in the medicine cabinet. In either case, your hormones ain’t acting right.

We’ll see you next issue with Part 3 of our IW/BBB/Bikernet.com Giveaway Bike progress report. By then our bike should begin to look even more like the style you selected when you voted on-line last spring.