Project No. 5
Customizing my '64 Panhead
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After my trip across the states in 96 I shipped the Pan from LA to Switzerland where she arrived in spring 1997. I rode the Pan in Europe for three years without changing anything. There were a view trips in 1997 and 1998 in the closer area of Switzerland and the two bigger the trips to Trondheim in February 1999 and to Sweden in summer 1999. I never really liked the swing arm frame and in my head a new project started to take shape. January 2000 I was ready to take my Pan apart.....
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First of all I had to
disassemble the Pan because the plan was to switch from a swing arm to a rigid frame. "Did he never wash that bike????" Dirt and grease all over... |
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Motor wash!! Well, what is a cleaner for small parts for? Ok, the engine does not really fit in there! |
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After cleaning all the parts an powdercouting of the whole front-end, the frame and some other parts I could start to put the bike together again. |
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'Roll out' of the first design
study in the spring sun. Think I have to cut that rear fender a little. |
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That's better!! |
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That's it.
The cool bag is handmade by Blumi (FL). |