Rocket Bobs' Blackbird by Choppertown

A wee vid put together by Choppertown of our Harley Davidson Rocker build Blackbird.  Thanks guys!

Pierres Harley Rocker C

Harley Rocker hooligan

Corey's Harley Rocker C

Just made this Rocker Fender & seat for Corey (Houma, Louisiana) and his 2011 Rocker C. Tough colour match with flame and tribal lettering detail from this side of the pond, but that rear fender is working for me!

Shooting the Bird

As part of the Britains Got Biking Talent comp (please vote, on their website) Motorcycle News asked us to bring in The Blackbird for a shoot, here are a couple of stills from the camcorder:

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Yorkshire Rocker

Delivered the Blue Rocker back to Tony way up on the Yorkshire Moors. Bike came out great, the paint by 8Ball is stunning and I was, again, sorry to see it go.

& yeah, it rained,, my god it rained :D

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Bye Bye Blackbird :(

Well I guess you can only hang on to these bikes for so long and then you just have to give them back :(

Yesterday I took the scoot out for an extended shakedown and was just blown away by it. Best ride I've ever had and so forlornly today we handed the R13 Blackbird over to Jim.

Just got to thank Jim for being such a stand up guy. He has put up with all my delays, lack of dialogue and general design tantrums and never given me too much of a hard time :D

The really great news is shortly the Blackbird will be back in the barn for more tweaks and then at Bisley in early August. Plus this winter we are going to go for a full motor build with an open primary etc

Will keep you posted, for now here are the happy couple:

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Blackbird featured on Cyril Huze

Great article by Cyril Huze which you can check out here: http://cyrilhuzeblog.com/2011/06/20/blackbird-harley-davidson-rocker/#more-71710

Holy Island

Not sure if this will come out as it's the tiny version I use as a sig pic, but I'm rolling on the Blackbird Rocker pix from Lindisfarne :

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AMD World Series

Ok just a very quick post, more up later. Last weekend at the California Dreaming Expo the R13 Blackbird took 3rd in the Harley Modified class :D

Ok, it wasn't 1st !! But as a brightener, there were only a few points separating the top three.

1st was Mike from Guildford's Twin Pan and that's just so cool and a huge congrats to my Buddy :))

Ok, here is a quick shot, I posted an album on our Facebook page

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R13 Blackbird at California Dreaming

The Mutha Rocker has landed at the AMD show in Bournemouth ;)

Much more later but for now here is the scoot:

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Cleaning a Softail

Heres just a really bad pic! It shows the main spine of a Rocker and a cool place to re locate the coil. The actual work to do this is way less than equivalent on a Dyna, it's almost like Harley once thought of mounting it there.

The whole coil thing with HD has always jarred with me, really never understood why they place them where they do.

Anyway, this is a neat little mod and all you need is the Taylor lead kit:


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Marks Rocker

Just thought I'd update y'all on Marks Rocker:

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Metal Damage

Notched tank Baby,, yeahhh!!

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Rocker Motor

Always loved the vintage look of gloss black barrels. With this motor we went with flat, textured finish on other random covers and flat black anodising on our collets, timing cover etc. Gotta love that Twin Cam. What I really want to do is get our rocker covers made ASAP. As for this motor, we just need Harley to send us the RIGHT!!! parts and we are done:




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More quick pix !



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Harley Competition

Really happy to see that Martins Rocker which we posted about a few weeks ago is doing well in the Harley competition.  It would be great if he could make it through to the next stage so please go and register your vote!

Martin Bailey, Softail Rocker

Trying out a new iPhone app

If this post works then from now on I'll be able to blog from my fone :) so as a test here is a pic of the latest wheels we have put together for this fat, black, fast and totally sic Rocker project.



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Martins Rocker

Another trip to Andover today to return Martin's Rocker which has had the Rocket Bobs treatment :)

We're really pleased with how it turned out,, it looks kinda hot roddy :)  The bikes got a very special appointment later this month as Martin & Louise will be getting married on it so this job required a full dual seat set up.

And this trip was made all the more sweeter by the fantastic lemon drizzle caked homebaked by Martin.  Some people do seem to be under the impression that we refuse to return bikes until we get cake,, not sure what would have given them that idea,, but it would appear rude not to accept the hospitality :D

This was the cake he made (and then ate!) last week to try to get his bike back early.  Sadly his bribery failed but I'm glad to say that he prepared another one for our arrival.

BEFORE

AFTER

Best wishes to Martin & Louise for the 23rd.  Hope it stays dry for you!

Harley Rocker shaved fender

A recent job to shave 6" off a rear Rocker fender. 

It's a great opportunity to show off Arts paint work.  The original OEM transfer flames were put back on by hand once he had laid down the sunglo candy red.  Looks great and this is why we use Art on all our paint now, from the humble Voodoo fender to a full blown custom creation.