2001 Custom Built Motorcycles Pro Street One Of A Kind, Hand Built, Big Bore, 4carb Motorcycle, Read Narrative Below

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Sorry to bore you with the following narrative however, I feel that anyone considering such a purchase should know the "back story."<br>In 1959, as a young boy, my friend and I worked the scoreboard for baseball games at Columbian Park in Lafayette Indiana. The scoreboard was located directly across the street from the Frozen Custard that was a cruising spot with tons of hot rods, muscle cars and motorcycles. I dreamed of having a custom built "big fender" motorcycle with a huge engine, 4 carburetors rising thru the gas tanks painted "evil" black and my friend Kevin dreamed of having a Corvette, he was quite the artist and sketched my dream bike for me.<br>Over the next 42 years I built several custom Harleys, owned many motorcycles, and rode regularly. However, I still wanted this one and for it to be built "top shelf"...beyond my capabilities. I took the 4-decade old sketch to Jim Guy, owner of J & B Customs in Indianapolis, Indiana, whom I considered to be one of the best builders anywhere and commissioned him to build this bike for me.<br>So, the agreement was that the bike was to be built as sketched, there was no timeframe, no budget, and that I was to be involved in every decision. I just wanted my dream motorcycle. It took 3 years to complete this bike and a lot of dollars. Once completed, I was ecstatic to take it home.<br>- 139 cubic inches,<br>- running on 116-proof fuel,<br>- Keck cases w/Jim’s flywheels and crankshafts using Delkron's DR-2 Fafner bearings on the piston side to provide extra support to the flywheels to keep them from becoming sloppy,<br>- the 4-5/8-inch flywheels are balanced using tungsten pins that are welded in place,<br>- Hyper Performance cast iron cylinders,<br>- billet 6061 R&R heads fitted w/ Ferrea valves that flow 313 CFM AT 28-inches of water as measured on a SuperFlow 1020 bench.<br>- (4) 39-millimeter Keihin carburetors, w/ synchronized matched throats, shortened throttle shafts and custom-made stacks,<br>- 6-speed transmission, belt primary and secondary drive,<br>- heavily modified Midwest frame,<br>- hand built intake manifolds, exhaust, fuel and oil tanks, fenders,<br>carburetor<br>stacks and many other components,<br>- and, at the time...one off wheels with matching rotors and pulleys.<br>The bike has always handled, steered, and braked top notch however admittingly it was a "bear" to get a good tune up on and the monster motor with 13.2 to 1 compression was hard on batteries and starters. It certainly showed a lot of promise, in fact I had a 1999, first year and unregulated Suzuki Hayabusa that I would walk away from. But again, it was just too cantankerous so, back apart it came. We welded bungs in the exhaust to help with the dyno tune, had a carburetor needle kit made, installed different compression releases changed the battery and starter technology, added an oil cooler and after another year of working on it got the tune up ironed out.<br>Please note that when I mention years of working on this bike, I do not mean nonstop, the builder had other bikes to work on besides mine. But finally, we got it tuned perfect and it became such a great running bike!<br>During the building stage I communicated with Keith Ball at Bikernet.com, and he said some genuinely nice things about my bike and that seemed to open the "floodgates" of interest in the bike.<br>Then,<br>Easy Rider magazine<br>asked if they could do an article about the builder of this bike and another similar one (that was stolen shortly after the article was published).<br>January 2003 issue. Picture attached.<br>So, for the next 10 years I rode my motorcycle proudly and regularly for short trips around town and raced it on the street regularly. I had no trouble beating anyone I raced except a nitrous and a turbo bike that always got me (same bike and rider he just switched set ups). In my bikes defense though, I was getting old and not doing it justice as a racer boy and the owner of the nitrous/turbo bike was a particularly good rider with an equally good builder. Let me be clear here, there are a lot of great builders around the Midwest with fast bikes and I am sure there were other faster ones. But I will say that I was not bashful and took on anyone that asked and there were lot of takers. I also had a Goldwing1800 that I rode to all the rallies, the Hayabusa for the incredible reliability, practicality, and speed it provided and, a custom softail for the softer V-twin fun of it.<br>Then in early 2013 I decided I wanted th