nice!!

 

F'ing sick!!! That is badass man!! I love those handlebars! Way to cool of a scoot. Very very tastefully done.

 

Actually the springer pan with the roadrunner flame paint job is owned by Jock E Shift. Jersey is loaded with pans!

 

See, I wasn't sure. I was thinking Jock or Rich. Thanks for clarifying.

 

Pans ... yeah ... I think I gotta get me one-a them ....

R/
'Chop

 

Didn't realize that Paughco makes the 6-bend bars ... H27 in their online catalog ....

R/
'Chop

 

If you want a pan you better get one quick. We have four of them in our shop and can't get heads for them anymore. Panheads crack and though some people will weld them they will never be strong enough to hold up on even a stock configuration.

It looks like the only alternative we have is S &S is making a shovelhead that looks like a panhead but requires shovelhead rockers, valves lifters and lifter blocks. About as close to a panhead as putting those funky rocker boxes on a twin cam that have the 'look' of a panhead rocker box.......

 

There are several late-model 'replica' panhead motors (e.g. 'Pandemonium' etc.) ... can't those be used ...? For example, since S&S took over Flathead Power, I thought they came out with a panhead replica as well as knuckle ....

I realize its not OEM, but as long as its not for a 'purist' 100-point show antique bike, can't you use an aftermarket to fix 'em ...?

It may be what you're reduced to before long ....

[A few years back it was in vogue to make pan/shovels by putting shovel heads on panhead bottom ends ... you'd think there would be old take-off panheads lying around in barns, garage workbenches, etc just waiting to be re-installed ....]

R/
'Chop

 

Definitely some sweet looking bikes.

 

Harley actually made the pan-shovel. In 1966 H-D introduce the "shovel head" when in reality it was a panhead with the new shovelhead topend. It wasn't until the generator was replaced with an alternator that the 'modern' shovelhead was actually born.

There are replica engines but the only manufacturer of pan 'heads' has gone out of business over a year ago and their shelves have been stripped clean. V-twin manufacturing was the only other manufacturer of the pan 'heads' and as you probably know they are strictly a Chinese manufacturer. They are out of stock and there is a three to six month waiting period for orders. (what that means is when they have enough orders to crank up a production line they will) People that own 1965 and earlier Harley-Davidson's really aren't interested in junking their entire engine for some 'replica' so the bikes in our shop are in a state of limbo right now. One of the owners has given the go-ahead with the S & S shovel-pan heads but the other three are on indefinite hold.