Dashboards and Saddlebags the Destination Magazine™ Issue 007 October 2011 | Page 26

Feature Bike

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he bike is a 2009 Yamaha
Roadliner. We made
inhous e the swingarm
to take the 300 rear tire
and 10.5 rear wheel. The
front end is a Mean Street
with 5 degree rake. We
modified the stock fenders
to maximize the look of the
original Yamaha lines, as the
end result we desired the bike to
look somewhat like a stock bike
on steroids. We made the seat
pan from scratch. Exhaust is a
Britt Signature Series and a set
of Big Burly 1 1/4” beach bars
were added.
The bike has great sentimental
value to me. For the last 25 years
I have built a bike to enter in the
Daytona Beach Rats Hole bike
show, many of them decided
on in the last minute whereas
we worked countless hours of
day and night to complete just
in time to make the event. I had
a great mechanic that started
working with me in 1979 who

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was always a instrumental part of
these builds. Garry Lane never let
me down and we