Southeast Custom Cycles?
Great! One less thing for me to do.
I start riding it and this thing is putting off so much heat it almost intolerable.. burns the inside of my leg. Tell the builder..huhhuh.. you're sitting on a big motor huhhuh. No **** sherlock. The bike had already been decatted, heat shields, has a radiator, oil cooled.. so I have fans installed, highway pegs to get away from the heat. Wear long boots. Every ride is just no freaking fun because of the heat. Im continually reassured that this is normal...I figured well, when the weather changes and cools I can ride... um I live in Texas so this whole thing is getting very discouraging.
So, I'm riding on one of about 5 rides I was able to take. (Otr driver so I dont get to ride much) bike starts running real rough, no power, lotta heat.
After putting on less than 1300 miles on the bike the motor has given out.
Come to find out the oil pump stopped working and burnt the whole damn thing up.
Now I found that when he went from a 107 to a stage 4 with a big bore 124 kit and an S&S 475 cam... he didn't upgrade the oil pump. I wouldn't have known this should have been done anyway when the motor was bored out if I hadn't talked to NUMEROUS builders since then. Aside from that, I've also found that the oil pumps on the 2017 were known to have problems. So, now I have to pay to have the thing rebuilt and he refuses to take any responsibility. Says he didn't know there were issues with with Harley's oil pump then turned around and told me that Harley has made a number of revisions over the years trying to correct the problem. Says he didn't do anything wrong but he'll "give me" 700.00 on a 6000.00 rebuild with the Harley dealership. Tells me i have to go after Harley over the oil pump in spite of him telling me previously that the work he was doing was going to invalidate any Harley warrant. Says that all his builds get new oil pumps now. This conversation took place in October 2018..I received my trike in July..
Well, that sucks but Im screwed because the bike was "as is no warranty." That was my ignorance and inexperience. I accept that. So much for hoping a person will do the right thing. Naive.
Now, top this all off with finding a video yesterday on fb of him ******* my bike and popping wheelies on it in the street with his friends giggling before he sent it to me. I confronted him about it and he tells me it didn't hurt it. Maybe it did and maybe it didn't. For one thing the motor still needed to be broken in and for a second thing... you've already been paid for the bike by the bank. That's my f****** bike that you're abusing. The video is immediately deleted and I tell him he needs to do the right thing and pay for more, if not all, of the repairs.
He sends me an email saying to stop contacting him and if I review him he's going to post screenshots of my "drunk" texts bitching at him when he wouldn't respond to texts or phone calls when he still had my bike. He also threatened voice clips of my "drunk calls" that took place when he refused to respond to texts or calls when he still had my bike. I might even admit to that **** ..i don't give a rat's ***. It doesn't change the fact that, in my opinion, he is an incompetent, untrustworthy, greedy person that lacks ethics.. in essence I feel he is a shyster.
Whoever reads this..I can back up everything I've said with texts and emails, photos.
You might or might not have the same issues I had if you employ him. Had I read a review like this I would have found someone else. Speaking of reviews if you look on his Facebook page you'll see st least 2 of the few reviews were submitted by family members (his wife for one) and so puts his star rating higher than it should be. I, for one, wish to God i had never given this man my money.
Thanks for reading. Be safe out there.
Last edited by Becka50; Nov 26, 2019 at 04:46 PM.
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Funny, but the service manager at the dealership that rebuilt the burnt up motor for me told me when I called that he too had seen the video. Said that if anyone there had done something like that, they would be fired on the spot.









