The shovelhead in these posts was my first old bike, and my first adventure into working on a bike. That bike has been a teacher of sorts. Over the days, weeks and months that I worked on it, and worked with other people on it, the bike taught me more about patience, process, and people.
These blogs first appeared as regular posts on my Facebook page, and they were so well-liked (literally), that I decided to put it all up as a blog once I was done with the bike. Although, I am not really done with the bike. It will never be completely done, done. Currently, it is back on a lift, out at Dan’s, getting a motor rebuild.
I also had to fix a few electrical gremlins, again, mostly due to the excessive vibration the bike had. Now that it is apart, it seems the flywheels were pretty badly out of balance, so that explains the shaking “like a wet dog” – as I would describe it.
However, the blog is still fairly entertaining if you enjoy reading someone else’s trials, and you are into bikes. At least I’d like to think so.
The Atomic Shovel 