Double Aught Garage Blog: 2014

While taking my son on a slow cruise through the country, we came across a creek. My son wanted to throw rocks in so we stopped for a break. A guy in a passing car stopped to look at the bike. We got to chatting and he said he has an old pan head at his shop up the road. After my son cleared the road side of every pebble he could find, we headed up to the shop to check it out.

When I stepped inside the shop, it became apparent that bikes aren't his only vice. It turns out that he has been drag racing since the 60's and has a business making fiberglass replacement parts for old Mopars.
The shop was full of old race cars, trophies, current projects, fiberglass hoods, and even a few donkeys

The Pan is also very cool. It's a 64 that he bought in 75 as a club bike with a 12 over springer. The bike has had numerous transformations over the years, but I really dig its current state. Clean and simple, hot rod black with pinstriping, foot clutch/hand shift. Beautiful.

Larry is a great guy and full of awesome stories. I will definitely be back in the near future.
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We hit the Lowbrow Swap Meet to see if we could find some bars and taillights for the Rebel. We were hoping to get both for $100. We made the rounds, ran into friends, didn't win the raffle, met the Lowbrow crew and had a great time. In the end we were able to get the handlebars, two Deuce taillights, two old new stock bubble shields and Lowbrow's old drill press all for $100. It was a good day.

I would have preferred to go with a vintage tread, but my wife wanted to go as wide as possible with the rear tire, so I checked with the guys at the Honda Rebel forum to see how wide we could go. They said the biggest tire you can fit on the Rebel if you want to keep the stock rear fender without major modifications is a 150-90/15. You do have to remove the chain guard. Once I received the tire I held it up to the stock size tire. I began to question if it was still going to fit.

Its snug, but it fits.

I'm wiring the Deuce lights as running and turn signal lights, but I still needed a stop light, so I got a smoke led for under the rear fender. I just needed to make a bracket. Mocked up with cardboard before cutting metal.