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Old Nov 2, 2022 | 05:01 PM
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Billy Lane Gets Fired Up Over World’s Ugliest Shovelhead
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Torched tins actually help age the paint.

 
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So...he did a top end and "created" a rat that runs, like it was some kind of elite accomplishment.
I know 50 guys that have done that because it was all they had.
*** clown.
 
Old Nov 3, 2022 | 08:29 AM
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Such a talented builder. Its crazy watching him now with the old boardtrack engines and how hes building and tuning those bikes. Really shows his depth of knowledge and passion for all motorcycles, not just choppers.
 
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So...he did a top end and "created" a rat that runs, like it was some kind of elite accomplishment.
I know 50 guys that have done that because it was all they had.
*** clown.
 
Old Nov 3, 2022 | 09:16 AM
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I watched a few of his Youtube videos on this bike. I'll agree the guy has some skill but I just dont like him. Even before he got drunk and run over that guy on the scooter years ago I thought he was an *******.
After he killed that guy I think he's just a waste.
 
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Old Nov 3, 2022 | 10:23 AM
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So...he did a top end and "created" a rat that runs, like it was some kind of elite accomplishment.
I know 50 guys that have done that because it was all they had.
*** clown.
+1. A local guy had a similar old rat and was always overcompensating for his inadequacies and denigrating newer bikes and always saying his "was a REAL motorcycle", "see no Evo, hear no Evo", etc, you know the type. Went on a distance run and stayed broke down most of the way slowing everybody down. At one point his whole outer primary (I kid you not) fell off almost taking out several bikes behind him. LOL still love the old dude, tho. (my conscience is bothering me talking about him).
 
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Old Nov 4, 2022 | 08:45 AM
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I’ve seen much uglier shovelheads, some of them from famous builders 😆
 
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Didn't he lose his license for life? I wonder how he rides, or for that matter how he gets to work?
 
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Old Nov 6, 2022 | 05:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Bubba Zanetti
I watched a few of his Youtube videos on this bike. I'll agree the guy has some skill but I just dont like him. Even before he got drunk and run over that guy on the scooter years ago I thought he was an *******.
After he killed that guy I think he's just a waste.
That could have happened to a lot of us, certainly me, back in the day. Miracle from God that it didn't, so I won't judge.
 
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Originally Posted by AJSHOVEL
That could have happened to a lot of us, certainly me, back in the day. Miracle from God that it didn't, so I won't judge.
This. If you think the guy's an ******* that's fine, but I'm willing to bet there's not a lot of us in here who've never been in a situation where that could have been us. Considering that I've had a DUI, i know i have no grounds to judge him.
 

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Man some of you guys are harsh and unkind. So say your out with some friends, have an extra beer, feel fine. You ride home, get into an accident and are found over the legal… ok, you just did something horrible. Took a life, someone’s father, husband, son or friend. You own it. Do all that is possible to make amends knowing it’s never enough. You still have a family to care for. You have one skill and that’s really all you know.

let’s say you make the mistake.. horrible as it is, what are your options to try and make it right? You can’t. So do you shoot yourself leaving wife and kids? Do you crawl into a bottle being even more of what people now think of you? What would you do after it’s happened? I’m not saying anyone needs to put him on a pedestal or anything. But just sitting around judging him like your perfect is arrogant.
 

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