Frankie's Motorcycles
My futures project bike.....and you can help me build it!
I'm planning a new bike that should be ready by Spring 1998. This first picture is fairly close to what the bike is going to look like. I plan to go with different pipes, a 2 up seat with sissy bar, a fat bob gas tank and a softtail frame. The bike will have the same basic clean, stretched lines as the ones in this picture though.
The design objectives are to build a fast, reliable, street-worthy machine that looks good, runs great and will run most anything else off the road.
This next picture shows the same basic style with a much cooler inverted fork front end and a leaned over look gained by using a different kickstand. This is the way that I want my bike to sit when parked. I like these wheels better also. The bike in this picture has a softtail frame like the one I will be using.
Anyone who knows me knows that I have little regard for Harley Davidsons. While the quality of a lot of motorcycle parts out there are good enough for H-D, they are NOT good enough for me. Harley Davidson is not and never has been the baseline for quality, as far as I am concerned. I intend to build a motorcycle that is orders of magnitude better than a Harley. My key strategy to accomplish this is to require that my bike has no Harley Davidson parts in it.
The first design decision was which frame to use. I've pretty much settled on a softtail, but I don't know which shocks I want to put on it yet. Lots of choices here!