"Not the Normal" builds, from WCC

[dirty d]

cool, look under that gas tank... looks like a stock tank pan huh. we all start somewhere.

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Originally Posted by bigironjoe

Great thread! I have to admit MM1 started it all for me. all of the sudden my kids thought it was cool that dad was a blacksmith/fabricator.

I hear that Joe, and after MM1, I never saw so many companies in magazines, selling "English wheels" and "Planishing hammers".

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Originally Posted by dirty d

cool, look under that gas tank... looks like a stock tank pan huh. we all start somewhere.

I like it. It has that classic black and chrome, (even a chrome rear fender), old school look, before everyone used that term to death.

[monkeyguted]

Nice thread! I like the early CFLs. The ones with exposed tank mounts, bolt on kickstands, no six gun nothing, raw chopper, CFLs.

[FRANKTHECRANK]

Originally Posted by bigironjoe

Great thread!

Thanks, Joe.

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Originally Posted by monkeyguted

Nice thread!

Thanks, monkey.

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Seeing that we're talking early CFLs, how about the "first" CFL.

This 113ci green bike was the first CFL to reach the market.

Always a fan of fast HD Sportsters, Jesse built the CFL as a sort of ultimate XL of his own design.

This frame, originally called the "Dragon" was designed with 38 degrees of rake, 2 inches of up stretch in the down tubes and 1 inch of forward stretch.

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Notice the risers at this time were still shaped like the Choppers Inc. ones. (that's where Jesse got the idea and permission to use "six gun" products, agreeing to a copyright agreement from Billy Lane)

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Notice the Bel-ray oil ad on the oil tank cap. I remember magazine ads with Jesse promoting the brand.

[JDOT32]

Well Dirty Santa....I mean Frank, I have always liked that first CFL. I normally don't like the color green, but that bike was cool.

[Merlin Hawaii]

Originally Posted by dirty d

but i read an article, i think cycle source. where Jesse all but dogged the shovel power plant.

I remember him sayin' something to the effect that his shovelhead was great

If you like goin' 50 mph on the freeway, and gettin' run down by a soccer mom in an SUV

[EL CHIGUETE]

Originally Posted by FRANKTHECRANK

Always a fan of fast HD Sportsters, Jesse built the CFL as a sort of ultimate XL of his own design.

I did NOT know that.

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Originally Posted by EL CHIGUETE

I did NOT know that.

Yea, I've often mentioned in other threads, how the CFL frame, especially the 2up version, is not your common, giant, stretched out example of a chopper.

These early pics of Jesse on a CFL, shows the relatively compact stance, like an XL, and although this red one has forward controls, many early ones had mid-controls, again like XLs.

[chopperluvr]

Was Bill Dodge's nick name 'Bling Bling' and was that his bike- the red an black one? and is that why he named his company Bling's Cycles?

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OK, speaking of Bill Dodge, here's a bike he built in 04 when still with WCC,...THE "COUNT CHOCULA" El Diablo II rigid. It had a 126 inch S&S, and a 6 speed RSD trans.