Carnage and the Beast! Oh wait, I mean beauty!

If you have not been paying attention to our posts on other social media you may not have realized that I managed to completely decimate the sprocket cover on my Ironhead Sportster chop.

Here is the carnage! Opps!

I was going to construct a whole new mount/ sprocket cover. But since I just wanted it done so I could ride I buzzed it back together. Hopefully this winter I will be able to get around to ordering up some material and fabbing one up!

Oh and this is just another one of those slammed mornings getting everything shipped out! 

Deep Six Cycles Stainless Rabbit Ears and more!

I made these bars the other week. I still have a set for sale. Polished 1" Stainless Steel Rabbit Ears with Polished manually machined brass pressed on. 3.5 mounting pattern. $285 plus shipping for this pair. Email DeepSixCycles@gmail.com Or check out our online store for more info! deepsixcycles.bigcartel.com
 

 Oh and we can hook you up with pegs for those funky Ironhead and Shovel mounts!

We have been selling quite a few of our brass products with and antiqued finish. See those pegs on the left?

And these antiqued foot pegs and hand grips.

Here are a set of Brass Hexogram Pegs, Brake peg and Grips with a special custom spin.

Another Customers Bike

 One of our customers sent us a picture of their super fly clean little XS650 chopper / bobber. This bike is running our aluminum XS650 Tracker Pegs. What a sweet little build! And don't forget these pegs are in our online store! deepsixcycles.bigcartel.com

That Thing 2014

We had a great ride and I would like to thank every one for turning out for "That Thing" our run through the country side. 

The Stumblers arrived early.

Early and waiting on the rest of  the folks to show up for the ride.

 Look at these guys. Love my brothers.

Running front of the pack.

One of a few over the shoulder riding shots I took. Strangely this is only one of the photos that have surfaced that has non Stumblers who attended the ride in it.

This rail speeder swung by while we were rallying to go!

Just a good ole week. Never meanin no harm...

What have we been up to? Well, really just settling into the new shop with East End Motorsports. Setting up the new spot, arranging, organizing and turning out products.

We still ship Iron Pony Express from time to time.

Wait, could it be? Brass Pegs that fit Ironhead Sportsters and Shovelheads? That's it man, we have them you want them!

Did I mention that we have 1" Brass Foot Pegs for Iron Head Sportsters and Shovelheads? You know the ones you can't get nice pegs for any where. They fit those big ugly male frame mounts!

Here are a whole set of antiqued or "aged" brass hand grips and footpegs! I bet you didn't know we offered so many types of finish on our products.

Here are a few more shots of the pegs. This has been a much requested finish on our brass products lately!  

Here we have our antiqued finish brass pegs on the right with common Harley style mounts on the left. One of our polished brass jockey/suicide shift knobs in the center and our brass "Screw It" footpegs fitted with mounts for Ironhead and Shovelhead Harleys.

Did you know that we still manually machine our parts? I know it's like the 50's never ended!

Some times we get requests to produce a part based on one we offer already but with a little twist to fit our customers needs or taste. Take this set of Deep Six Cycles Hexogram brass handgrips. They feature a double hex on one end.

Yes I know only old guys do it this way. Finishing up more parts and they are gone, gone, gone!

I was forced to go down town the other day... Strangely The Cobblers Shoe (my bike) didn't have anything to do with my morning in traffic court.

What have we been up to? Well lets have a look!

  I have been working on a new line of Rabbit Ear or "Pull Back" bars. They have a turned piece of brass pressed over the cross bar on them. These bars are reasonably priced at $115 plus shipping. Get them powder coated black while leaving the brass as it and watch every ones mind blow! We can also do variations on this design including making them from Stainless Tubing. They look great with our Brass Grips, Pegs and other accessories. Check out our Web Store- Click here to see our Store! Or email us for more info- DeepSixCycles@gmail.com I still have a ton of ideas I need to put into production so keep checking back to see the latest!

Today we happened to get some large hunks of brass in! So naturally we machined some into a super duty groovy gas cap cover!  We will have them available in the web store affixed to gas caps as a turn key custom solution with in the next few weeks. If you would like to pre-order one or would like to request a quote on having an item custom machined for you please send us an email! DeepSixCycles@gmail.com

The 6th Hellbilly Hootenanny

  We had a great time at the Hootenanny. Our Bootlegger Friends treated us like family and we got to catch up with a bunch of other old friends and met a lot of new ones. There were a bunch of great automobiles and the bike turn out was better than any of the previous Hoot's I have been to. We look forward to doing it again next year!

The Deep Six Cycles booth.

There's a new clunker in the family

Yes that is a full ridgid Trumpet! 

Moving! (A.K.A. Sucks)

  We have been busy moving the shop into East End Motorsports just out side Asheville in Swannanoa, NC. Moving, well all I can say is I have never enjoyed the task of moving all that much. We are excited to be settling into our new location with our new family at East End Motorsports. We will be working under the same roof and collaborating on projects and events when it makes sense to do so. Come out and see what we have going on and stay tuned because there are great things in the works!

  

 

Come out to bike night and see our stuff!

Deep Six Cycles will have a table set up with our merch at the Harley Dealership this Friday. This is the last one of the year! We will have a small selection of Brass Pegs, Grips, Biltwell Helmets and those Flat fenders we sell the heck out of! Come check out my slowly rusting chopper in person and shoot the breeze with me!

  

 

"Screw It" Brass Harley Pegs

Check out the latest twist to our product line! These are our new "Screw It" brass foot pegs for Harleys. Now available starting at $100 ready to mount!

Brass Hex Pegs fresh off the lathe!

These 1" brass pegs were manually machined in house. I can supply them with any required thread you may require. Made in North Carolina with pride! These hand made parts can be yours for $80

Buy them here! DeepSixCyclesStore.com

 

Shots in the dark.

I find myself shooting photos of things. Some of the time these things make it to instagram or various other forms of social media, often times they are posted one place and never make it to the blog. Here are a few photos from last week. I tend to take a lot of the shop stuff for granted just because I see it every day and never think to shoot it. There are probably a lot of missed opportunity's.     

 

This clutter of the day is a bunch of material in different stages of machining, or just finished.

Here is the finished bore for a set of brass grips with a Joker Machine throttle tube being test fit. P.S. they run a bit small.

 

These would be our finished Brass Grips with the Joker Machine Throttle tube installed

Just an ole handle bare fixture.

 

Just the ole splitting of an ole handle bar fixture.

And this ole pic of my ole bike "The Cobblers Shoe" 

Contact Us!

Contact us at
Deep Six Cycles
Asheville, NC, 28806
DeepSixCycles@gmail.com
Phone (828) 552-4707

Old friends and old iron in the sticks!

We wound up at a bbq at an old friends this weekend. When we went for a walk in the woods and we stumbled across some of this nearly forgotten stuff here! I can't seem to shake this mountain buggy from my mind!

 

My Uncle used to tell me about how he and his buddies cut down VW Bugs and modified them into buggys that would fit into the back of a pickup truck. This is one of the only examples I have actually ever seen. Though it seems to be "Thing" based and many states away from where he and his friends constructed theirs.

 

I think I am intrigued by this machine as much or more than my 2yr old son sitting in the cockpit. This simple creation speaks to me in a similar way as our choppers do. Its stripped down, and not very complicated but will excel in it's intended purpose. Similar to an old hot rod or real chopper. I think that is part of the appeal for me.

 

 A poor old Chevy

 

 I really really liked this old Dodge. It had a slant six in it with motor oil that appeared to be fairly fresh when it was parked! I really like this body style...

  

Yeah thats a 10' bed!

 

"Race Fans"

                                                                    

 

I need to find some one to trade parts for an old mini bike project for my son. He spent a lot of our time out there sitting on this mini bike.

 

You may have seen this little single cylinder Ducati around town. This thing has a ton of class. What a pretty motor!

Deep Six Cycles shirts are here again!!!

Check out our new and re-released shirts, available in many different styles including tee shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts and long sleeves at the links below!

Click here to check out this shirt!

Click here to check out this shirt! 

Deep Six Cycles products on #BikerLive!

   Remember when the guys at Houston Retro Bobbers used our Brass Hand Grips on their Discovery Channel #BikerLive bike? That was pretty awesome! Too bad no one let you know those came from us! But they did and we are still broke doing things like its the 50's. Manually machining all our parts, usually as they are ordered... So if you want to put in an order for some parts a real person turned hand wheels to make hit us up! Now Its off to bed to dream about a slightly modern shop CNC equipped shop.  Also if you watch really closely there is one short section that is a mirror image during the filming!

Deep Six Cycles HourGlass Bars!

Check out our Hourglass bars in this rad video from our rad customer!!

The Build... (By that dude from See See)

  Yes, yes I know this does not have the most bitching choppers of all time. But some times you have to remember what got you into bikes in the first place. I really like this video. And at the end of the day I just really, really like motorcycles in general and riding! Weather it be in a group or all alone. I need it all. In the city and in the country on winding roads with breath taking views. Its a different kind of experience and exorcise in riding and utilizes a number of different skill sets. And I need it all from dodging pot holes in town and threading traffic. To reading a big corner on a back road and seeing the country side every one is too caged up to enjoy properly. It's also an extremely  intimate thing to maintain or build your own bike then put it through its paces. To experience all these great moments that make you feel alive. To go on a voyage and do it successfully or even fight with the bike the whole way there. It's all part of the experience. But with out that thing you have had cover your hands in greasy oil and likely cut you wide open, the world would in some way be closed to you and empty. I some times wonder if I may be at my best on my bike. One thing is for sure with out a motorcycle that I have had my hands all over with which to interact with the world. A massive part of my being is missing. Having said that I need to go look at top end parts for my scoot before it gets our of hand!!! Now Watch this damn video now!!!



The Build Film from Instrument on Vimeo.

The Chop Magazine.

Remember this little old grass roots publication?  We had a small interview in the very final issue!

Brass shift knobs

  Did you know we make brass automotive shift knobs in addition to our jockey shift knobs! Contact me at DeepSixCycles@Gmail.com for more information.