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Last month, we kicked around the Paughco classic frame, the CCI Rev Tech engine, the Bikernet transmission, and Haley, Miss Horse Sweeps. We are scrambling toward a roller, but we needed pipes, a primary system to tie the engine and trans together, and a wiring system to make it fly and last. This entire effort was designed to give a brother the opportunity to win a Horse-induced, Bikernet.com-supported, Brass Balls-built bobber, just for being a reader, a rider, and a fan of the lifestyle.
What could be better than to watch your ride come to life on the pages of your favorite mag? There’s a deadline to this effort. The bike must be completed and delivered to a major event (add event), where Haley will pull the winner’s ticket, just before I sweep her off her delicate toes and kidnap her to Vegas.
Back to the nuts and bolts of the issue. D&D stepped up to help with a performance exhaust system. D&D dyno-tunes every system they manufacture. Dave Rash, the boss, is an avid Bonneville racer and a performance nut. Dar Holdsworth, the doctor of Darwin Motorcycles, delivered a Brass Balls Bobber to the D&D Texas facility, where they designed a head pipe that would support three muffler systems, to allow customers a choice. They could go with a completely stainless system, and stainless megaphone, flat black, or chrome components. D&D recently designed a sport-bike styled canister system in short and long configurations, and in any finish. They are also making mufflers with aluminum housings. These flexible units can be left bare metal, polished, chromed, powder-coated, ceramic-coated, or stained and media-blasted for a titanium look.
D&D also manufactures a quiet muffler system for emission testing, with restricted baffles, which are available straight or slash cut. D&D also hand-finishes the merge joints on the inside of their pipes for the best possible flow. They build all of Chris Carr’s XR 750 pipes.
As most of us know, the majority of breakdowns revolve around electrical issues, but in most cases, there are new-tech solutions, like electronic ignitions, improved connectors and complete wiring harness systems from companies like Wire Plus. Now you can buy a flawless wiring system that contains the ignition switch, highbeam switch, circuit breakers, horn button, starter relay, starter button, and all the correct wiring leads.
With one of these Wire Plus integrated systems, I could drink a fifth of Jack Daniels, chase Haley around the shop, and wire a complete motorcycle in a couple of hours. If you’re into turn signals, they have all the guts for blinkers, too.
Steve is a manufacturer’s manufacturer. He lives to make shit better. So natch, we are using a BDL belt of Dar’s choosing, since in the future, Brass Balls will start to run BDL systems on Darwin Motorcycles. Steve recently moved the entire BDL complex to a new, larger, more efficient facility in SoCal.
“We have 50 plus CNC machines, rapid prototype capabilities, 30-40 gear making machines, a foundry with permanent mold casting capabilities, and screw machines,” Steve rattled at me while trying to hit the road for Base Lake. “We also make in-house rubber and synthetic products with compression and injection molding abilities.”
BDL owns the patent on the ball-bearing clutch plate systems.
“Not ball-bearing clutches,” Steve said, “They’re dangerous.”
The Bikernet 5-Ball Racing Bonneville bike runs their ball bearing clutch plate for high-speed grip on the salt. So there you have it, more elements for your Brass Balls Bobber, if you win it. It’s easy, just subscribe to the HORSE, pray to the Bikernet.com gods, and live by the code of the west. Someone it going to win this bastard, and if I’m a lucky, I’ll win Haley’s heart. Sometimes I’m a lucky bastard.
–Bandit
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