A week end frame build - (AKA) A Deep Six Cycles / Hugh's HandBuilt Collaboration

I had a pile of parts and a pretty good idea for a frame. So I talked my buddy Hugh from Hughs Hand Built into hanging out with my raggedy ass and helping me bring it to life. What followed was a long weekend of chopping, drankin' beer, watching hippies dance in the woods, and finding sustenance from the closest source, the gas station...   This is a series of shots to show the KZ650 frame we built from scratch in the late hours of a long weekend...

The only part of the old frame to remain was the neck.

I had a 16" Harley Wheel kickin around so Hugh Drew me up some axle plates for a 3/4 axle and we had em laser cut ahead of time.

We set up some random dimensions, drank beer, eyeballed it some more, and changed everything around until we were happy...  Then we built a quick engine cradle jig to locate the motor mounts...

Once we got the dimensions nailed down for sure we bent up some tube, I tacked em in, and it was game on!

  Right from the beginning I had envisioned parallel down tubes with a fair amount of stretch. Besides looking cool as the day is long it would make dealing with the exhaust a breeze! The left side of the frame had to be wider than the right, so we took the time to make it all just right. 

We laid out some more tube and I tacked it in. We were on track and there was no derailing us now!

Here I am beat as hell and stoked! All in all the initial set up took about as long as it did to put the frame together...

Here she is all tacked up! I still really dig this frame and it should be a fun build!

We had a hell of a week end! I can't wait to spend another week end of long nights, cheap beer, good music with a good friend working like a manic depressive on an up swing to appease the chopper gods! It was a true thrash session with sparks flyin at both ends of the shop most of the time! This is what its all about!

Dixie Roundup & Dice Party!

Man I had a complete blast at the round up! My camera is a p.o.s. so I didn't even bother with it... My phone was dead all week end due to my charger jumping out on the road some where on the way to Atlanta. So I don't have a single picture that needs to be destroyed... The Round Up ruled more than words can capture. The bikes were rad and every one we kicked it with ruled! Big thanks to Garage Co, The Haints and every one at Dice! Huge thanks to the Erick, the B.D.A.C. boys (and affiliates), Flounder, and the Dilly Falcon, for hookin it up so hard! I can't wait to kick it with all the rad mother fuckers we meet when B.M.R. comes around!

Our work on a customers Scoot.

Here is another Customers Bike with our Brass foot pegs, Toe Shifter peg, Brake Peg and Brass Hand Grips. All with an unpolished brush finish. He was kind enough to send me these shots today. If you have our products on your bike we always love to see pictures! Send em here Deep Six Cycles!

Price jack... (A.K.A. Polishing Busts Balls)

Ok kiddies heres the deal. If you have ever seen any of our polished goods in person you know just how amazing they look! There is a lot more to it than just pulling it off the lathe and hitting it with the buffing wheel. We spend a lot of time and energy to make sure every Peg, Hand Grip, Toe Shifter, what have you, meets our standards. May 1st our prices are going to go up. We have been trying really hard to keep costs down for you. Any order paid for before April first will be at the current prices.

The new prices will be as follow

Pair of Foot Pegs

Raw machine finish & no adapter. For threaded for solid mount. $80

Stainless shrink fit Male Harley Adapter Add $45

Full Show Polishing service. Add $15

Knurling Add $5

Brass Toe Shift/Brake Peg

Raw machine finish $35

Show Polished add $5

Knurling add $5

Brass Hand Grips (for 1" & 7/8" handle bars)

Raw $185

Show Polished add $20

Knurling add $10

Aluminum XS650 Foot Pegs!

These new foot pegs are a great way to add that final touch to your project. They attach to the stock mounts after the original peg is removed. All it takes to remove the old peg is a minute or two with a drill or grinder. New hardware is included with every purchase!

Brass Pegs for your XS650!!!

 Even a blind man would have a hard time not noticing all the cool XS650 builds hitting the streets. In my mind one of the biggest eye sores on a custom XS are those damn fuggly rubber foot pegs! Foot pegs are one of the most often overlooked accessories on any custom build. My buddie Hugh at Hughs HandBuilt turns out some rad builds and never over looks anything!

 Hugh came to the shop and dropped off some stock pegs and brackets and said "Make it brass, make it cool". I had been dieing to work some solid brass hex stock into my product line and here was the perfect opportunity! 

This is the pile of ugly I had to work with. All you XS guys know what I'm talkin about!

This is the design I came up with just for you cats who don't overlook details either! Custom machined in house from solid Brass & Stainless stock exclusively for use with Stock XS650 foot peg brackets. 

Your order will include every thing pictured. 2 Brass Foot Pegs with Stainless Mounts, and the hardware required to mount them.

Mounting these is stupid simple. All it requires is the most basic of hand tools that any one messing with a custom should have.

All it takes is drilling or grinding off the rivet side of the Stock Foot Peg pin.

Replace the stock rubber peg with our Brass Foot Peg using the supplied hardware and your done!

Bolt the assembly back on the bike and ride the wheels off it!

*Deep Six Cycles XS650 pegs are built to order. Price includes shipping in the Continental U.S. Please contact me for shipping quotes outside the U.S. DeepSixCycles@gmail.com

Sweden... (A.K.A. So it begins...)

Here are a couple shots I got from a cat who ordered a set of our bars for his first bike. Im kinda stoked about young guns riding and I think its awesome that I have parts on his first bike! These bars are slightly wider than our average Tri-Win Bars (by request). Its also rare to see our mail order customers projects so as a show of support to this cat we figured we would toss up his pictures! Now that the bug has bitten I can't wait to see how this bike might evolve...

Henderson Streamliner built in the 50's (AKA So Its Not A Chopper!)

Some body emailed me this! Im not sure of the original source. Hence all the pictures and text are stolen... Well the pics are credited to
Grail Mortillaro (of the chopper blog Knucklebusterinc).

1930 Henderson "Streamliner"

The motorcycling world loves a ‘barn find’, an old, obscure machine wheeled out of the woodwork for the first time. And this is one of the biggest revelations of recent months.

It’s a 1930 Henderson that was customized before WW2 by a fellow called O. Ray Courtney and fitted with ‘streamliner’ bodywork.

One night in March, 1950, O. Ray Courtney worked until two a.m. And drove home discouraged. He was trying to design a better motorcycle. He wanted one with the seat forward, with better cooling, better springing and a more beautiful body Discarded sketches littered the floor of his shop. That night in a dream he saw a steamlined beauty skim across a flowered field. Too excited to report for work the next day, he hastily put his dream on paper – and he is riding that dream cycle now through the streets of Pontiac, Mich.

The art deco influence is obvious; legendary automotive designer Harley Earl could have drawn those curves.

It’s all the more unusual because the mechanicals are hidden: even at the height of the Art Deco movement, most motorcycles were a triumph of form over function, with exposed cooling fins, brake drums and suspension springs.

The bike is owned by collector Frank Westfall of Syracuse.

It caused a stir in June 2010 when it appeared at the Rhinebeck Grand National Meet, a motorcycle show held a couple of hours drive north of NYC.

I took these photos at the Rhinebeck Grand National Meet where the newly restored bike was unveiled. The bike belongs to Frank Westfall from Syracuse, NY. According to some info I found online, the bike was originally built by O. Ray Courtney in 1936 and is based on a 1930 K.J Henderson. The bike is powered by inline four cylinder (not a scooter as some have said, check the shot of the motor below) and as I’m sure you can gather by now, is a one-off custom. What I can confirm is it does run and while it looked a bit unwieldy, Frank could be seen riding the bike around the Fairgrounds all weekend. But let’s be honest here (and maybe I’m wrong) - you don’t have this bike in your stable to go out for a long Sunday afternoon ride to get some ice cream. That said, it was pretty awesome to see the bike being ridden (even when rain started to come down) instead of being sheltered behind a velvet rope, never to see the rubber touch asphalt again. The bike is a fantastic piece of history, the craftsmanship is absolutely stunning and it’s surely more of a museum piece than a daily rider. Frank has obvHenderson was a Chicago brand and one of the American ‘Big Three’ (with Harley-Davidson and Indian) until the onset of the Great Depression. It went bust in 1931.

But you can see the influence of the ‘streamliner’ style on another contemporary North American brand : Victory.

If there’s a spiritual successor to this Henderson custom, it’s the Victory Vision Tour, a gargantuan cruiser with completely enclosed bodywork and not a leather tassle or saddlebag in sight.

Henderson was a Chicago brand and one of the American ‘Big Three’ (with Harley-Davidson and Indian) until the onset of the Great Depression. It went bust in 1931.

But you can see the influence of the ‘streamliner’ style on another contemporary North American brand : Victory.

If there’s a spiritual successor to this Henderson custom, it’s the Victory Vision Tour, a gargantuan cruiser with completely enclosed bodywork and not a leather tassle or saddlebag in sight.

Adam Cramer of Liberty MotorCycles.

Man I have had very similar conversations late at night with any one that would listen! Get out there and make some thing with your hands it may be a dieing art!!!

Handmade Portraits: Liberty Vintage Motorcycles from Etsy on Vimeo.

Man I want to go to this!

A Prayer For Cool

This has been around awhile, but I happened to think of it today and immediately had to stop what I was doing to sit down a minute and watch it again. You can also see Marc's righteous purple Slab Side Shove in issue 31 of Dice Magazine. Really you need to see this bike!

Keep an eye out on their site (in the works)for future radness! http://www.clutchmonkey.com/

Beston Gran Tourismo grips! (AKA Clasic coolness)

Hell yeah! We have found a new source for 7/8 Beston Gran Tourismo grips! I had a bit of trouble coming up with these... I assume they are N.O.S. since most of the suppliers that used to carry them have just dried up. That being said I am unsure of how long the supply will last. Maybe endless maybe not! If you want em I got em for $13.50 plus shipping!Pictures to follow!

XS Madness! (Aka XS Chopperrific)

We are in the middle of doing some r&d for you cats with XS 650's! A whole new peg set based off our signature series. And I mean very loosely based. Man are they are chopperrific! Just a few little details to sort, they should release with in a couple weeks so keep your eyes out. And you Harley guys requiring female mount pegs we havent forgotten you!

Support your friends! (Aka pay back)

Here at Deep Six Cycles we have the pleasure of working with some really great folks. From our customers to other shops, right down to the magazines who are all ways there for us. We have been very fortunate to work with many of the magazines we read regularly. So I tracked down a few videos in an attempt to return the favor! Keep up the great work!








I have to say I'm not sure this is Dice endorsed but we dig it...



But here's an old classic from the collective brains of Matt & Dean!

Deep Six Cycles Brass Hand Grips!

Deep Six Cycles are now manufacturing Brass Hand Grips! Made entirely in house here in Ashville, NC. You know what that means 100% Made In The Usa! Available Raw or Polished to the hilt for 1" or 7/8" bars. These Grips can be made specifically to fit internal or conventional throttle set ups.  For the best fit and finish possible send us your conventional throttle assembly and a  custom set of grips will be custom fit to your assembly!

Finish & Throttle Type

Polished (Internal Throttle) $185.00 Polished (Send Us  Your Conventional Throttle) $185.00 Raw (Internal Throttle) $168.00 Raw  (Send Us Your Conventional Throttle) $168.00

Size (1" or 7/8")

1" 7/8"

Knurled or None

Knurled No Knurling

Sneak Peak (AKA Its good to have friends)

Heres a sneak peak of some of the prepared shots from the latest photo shoot. Shit owns! We will be doing some official product releases soon so keep your eyes out! A HUGE shout out to Hugh at Hughs HandBuilt and his buddy Dino are in order! These are our new Brass Grips! Coming soon!

New Deep Six Cycles Stainless Peg Adapters!

So heres deal is with these pegs! The stainless adapter is 1 1/2" long 1/2" Thick. It is turned to with in +/- 3 tenths of of the i.d. of the peg. The adapter is cooled and the peg is heated for a shrink fit similar to installing neck cups. I feel this should make for the sturdiest/ safest brass peg on the market. And yeah it very well may be over kill... I will be doing r&d on adapters for female Harley mounts next and have it in mind to also offer some the Brit, Yamaha XS, And maybe Honda Cb. But the Female Harley ones are next.

Quanity And Finish

Foot Peg Set of 2 (Polished) $80.00 Toe Shifter (Polished) $40.00 Brake Peg (Polished) $40.00 Foot Peg Set of 2 (Polished with stainless adapters) $125.00

Style

Dished/ Conventional Spiked

The meaning of Hand Built! ("Aka Built to order")

Ok kiddies, I updated some of the options with the bars mostly pull down/ roll back of the top bar & top bar length. Keep in mind one of the reasons to wait for my "built to order" bars is the fact that they are not just some off the shelf one size fits all made in China B.S... If you are diggin my bars but want them just slightly different to suit your build as in dimensions, pull back/ pull down, knurling distance, or what ever. Give me a call or shoot me an email and I will try to work some thing out that will work for you. That is the benefit of not being part of a mass produced big box chain! Check out our some of our products & services on the right column of the blogs under product!

Hot, hot, hot off the presses!

 Ladys and Gentle Worms I present for your viewing displeasure (I hope) a short tale about a flaming shitter! Its been a crazy week. But then again coming in to work on Tuesday morning only to find your bathroom engulfed in flames will do that! There were 9 fire extinguishers emptied and some hose water to boot by the time the Fire Department showed up! But we are very lucky no one got hurt, no tool or product damage, and no vehicle loss. Just a few magazines, some tp, and hand soap. Oh yeah and the entire bathroom!!! 

http://m.citizentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010101116020

Fork Shavin!

Ok here's the the deal for $200 Plus Shipping . I will take your dirty scared up legs. And shave the fender tabs (and brake tabs if desired) off and polish them to the hilt. Send em or random hate mail to Deep Six Cycles, 12 London Rd, Asheville Nc, 28803

Leave Or Shave Brake Tabs

Shave Brake Tabs Off Leave Brake Tabs