The Great Biker Build Off 4 - Billy Lane Vs Indian larry

Speeding through the Badlands of South Dakota are two of the most well-known bicycle

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ers in the world, from the northeast comes the legendary Indian Larry and from the deep south the rising star Billy Lane, in just 30 days these two artists They've designed and built two monster machines and now they're headlong toward the Sturgis Black Hills Motorcycle Classic, where the people will choose who will be crowned the Biker Build Champion of the Year. This round of competition will be unlike any other because, for the first time, both contestants. they are high priests of the retro chopper style Indian Larry has been

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ing bikes for 35 years and Billy Lane for a decade this time it's old school versus the new old school just down the coast from Cape Canaveral is Melbourne, Florida home of Billy Lane , which is already two years old. winner of the

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Lane is quickly becoming Chopper Diamond's hottest star, thanks in large part to such crazy innovations as this completely hubless rear wheel, The Bitchiness Shop and Gator Land, Choppers Inc. Jeff, born from a custom chrome, helps Billy to carry an aftermarket frame which, of course, sir. Lane will modify it, we'll build a tough, dirty old school helicopter, you know. I mean, I know Larry will appreciate it as much as he appreciates his own stuff. We will take a frame. We will cut it. We'll make a lot of modifications to it, we'll use some old stuff we found, it gets used, it's like that, who can do it better between him and me?

We think we can and I'm sure he thinks he can, so if I do it. I get my way but he's a little dirtier than him and I know he doesn't take me lightly because I don't take him lightly so I'm pretty sure he'll do his best because I will all. ready to cut you ready Larry Meanwhile, 1,100 miles north in New York City, Indian Larry is working on his vision of an old-school jumper. Larry's mission is to merge the best of the old with the best of the new, winning bike building. 3 Larry prepares for another round Not only is he a God helicopter, he is also a television and movie personality, as if this were not enough Larry is a daredevil who likes nothing more than launching at full speed through walls of fire across the river from Manhattan.

The Baddest Store in Northeast Gas Alley Behind these wrought iron gates A secret plan is afoot Why don't we start with geometry? wheelbase frame configuration. We know we are making the right turn. Larry and his partners called Girard. We're designing a 21st century version of a 20th century motorcycle, so just like in that room, you'll panic or we'll never hit the bottom of the magneto. Let's forget about the pipes for now. The six speed kik-kik around the oil tank wall was just doing the sketches here for this bike. We are doing whist with a single downtube frame, which is our proprietary frame.

It will be a rigid frame. The beginning of any bicycle is, of course, the frame. This frame or what's left of it was given to us by chassis engineer Diamond in Riverside, California. we remove this. I'm just using this as a reference. This frame will feature a twisted down tube. The first step in making this custom tube is to weld one end of a solid steel bar to the workbench, then heat the bar. 900 degrees Fahrenheit even though the bar heats up to cherry red, it takes 3 muscled guys to give it the big spin first, this deal twists one way then the other to make it the most distinctive down tube ever made , what's better than heat and fire and I just know that's cool meanwhile in Florida Billy expects a visitor from the far north Tom extends the Rumble customs in Ontario Canada these are the drawings of the wheels that Tom made for us I initially sent them a drawing like this and I want to make a wheel with a very thin rim with a trucker girl theme, you know, kind of like a pop culture thing and, um, Tom sent me these drawings and decided how the Trucker girl spins around the tire continuously, even when the wheel stops, it's a really good idea, so I'm looking forward to seeing it look good, these things are crazy, and I didn't do it.

I didn't even see any spikes. I don't know if he's going to do this. Billy and his right hand man. nip fidella is impressed, that's cute just when you thought she couldn't get a cuter man, you haven't put me into this stuff, huh, what you said is that 340 pound foil bag of this one starts at 341 pounds total . from Canada, but 50 hours to cut the block or so, yeah, that's what raises the bar for me. Now I have to build a better bike than I would if it had normal wheels, so because you know I can. They haven't been like pimp wheels and then a beat up, tattered bike in Gasoline Alley, time to install the twisted down tube.

First, the cut frame is welded to the frame template, since the real engine has not arrived. Larry installs a mockup so that each piece aligns correctly, it is very important to have everything in order so that the bike does not want to be rough. I like to build a bike that you can handle without hands and stand on a stable bike normally during these long front end things, it's just a hype wife that doesn't handle that, if this is square here pointing down, the bike will drift in direction, so you must keep everything you know. I'm ready on the bike, all good.

The daredevil wears his philosophy on his neck, thank God we trust and vengeance is mine says the Lord that is a medium of two lines backwards so I can read it in the mirror and this is not fear it is a big difference people think no there's fear and then they don't equate fear and stupidity are the same thing, but it's not, I mean, it's like you can be really stupid and really dumb, that doesn't mean you're not afraid now. I'm still going to be old school, but I'm going to make that happen. Jump to a slightly more current time and I hope I can merge the two to still have that feeling that you know you're riding out of the '60s but with gear from 2003 and I hope I can achieve that.

So I really have to tell you that I'm a little nervous because it's a little different coming out at Choppers Inc. Billy installs a '60 style front end, just a Springer front end from the Denver Choppers drive, we've been using them a lot. I am very happy with them, they ride nice and smooth, they are light. I like to do wheelies, so they light well. Billy is determined to use a Baker six-speed transmission with just a kickstarter to run this huge engine. There is no newfangled electric starter from Mr. 103 inch SMS Lane engine, the heads are old Harley heads and a DaVinci gave us these carbs and now the rough beginnings of a tank look

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I've had this tank on my head for a few months now, the metal for the stretches starting to hit, it's getting longer about three inches, it's not getting any higher here than it is here, so I'm going to try stretching it again so far. Larry has been the guru of wire wheels, but as another new twist for Billy this time he is going to use billet wheels, this particular girl wheel is the least offensive of all the billet wheels I see among the hundreds of designs , I still find it a little unpleasant, you know, but maybe I can get over it.

I'll see at the end of the project how I feel about it. I still am. I wouldn't mind this in the back if Ida talked to me in the front, but we're making the same matching set. Check the spacing of the actors I want. elevate motorcycle art so I like the stamp and I want to take the top off and just do it like it's an acceptable art form since I think it's not just an art form, you have strict criteria that I have to meet, we have to ten thousandths of an inch of free space that you have to maintain while you're trying to create abstractly, so it's an art form.

I don't know if this is really correct. Impressions in the Deep South. He's bending metal Billy style. Travis. See, I went through it. some spots are so thin that nothing remains. I made patches to cover up what I messed up. I soldered them all over. Anyway, I'm getting stronger so maybe it's for the best, but I didn't want to get one too skinny and have to start. It broke down somewhere on the road and I got stuck somewhere with gasoline, one everywhere, it got in my crotch and it already set my butt on fire the last time.

I need to be enlightened on the front end to what extent it is done. I need it Suzanne. Opps to stop the Orange office manager, but she is a metal fabricator at heart, the band saw she wants to start welding and then cutting metal tips by hitting, what you want to do something like this is start on that line, let's go at a crazy angle, let's tie a little knot. the band saw broke down yeah, I'm basically done for the day. I finished most of this tank of gas now. I never do the same thing twice.

I really want to do something so that everything is always new. Larry ops to install a prefabricated tank by Paco boy one. Little input here, the placement employs Larry using a Jesse James fender and cutting it to the knees after the fender was shortened. Paul and Kano take out an inch from its center and now it's time to weld the two halves back together. Oh, there's something better than that. trained and confident staff at this point it has exactly the same shape as when it was wire, it's just thinner in just two weeks all the main components of Indian Larry's bike are in place, you basically have the entire bike, the tail light and the headlight with only one bulb.

We'll put it in later, we're not going to go crazy doing anything, we're just going to try to build a nice, clean, simple, tight chopper for the road, hopefully a reliable road bike and this is a step back, you can see, basically, come on. because now we're just Raya, or it's a sunny day in Melbourne, but Billy and Nick are still sick, sit down, Nick's not here, I didn't expect him to be, you went out partying with me, or last night is the usual, I slept for two hours. It's worth it, it's a good trade, but the pressure continues because today is the 20th, the last day of construction.

My plan for today is to finish the gas tank, this is the hardest thing I have to do on the bike and then add the oil. The tank on the rear fender and the bar make some exhaust pipes. The gas team decides that Larry's tank needs one more retro touch. Paul gets to work, so this is the tank we're going to start with. It's a smaller version of the pork store Larry likes. In the old days, people would cut them or hammer them, cut off the side and shift it to the other side to get a defect on the plate or just outline it with stock round to get a really prominent edge and then just hammer this. so I'll do it like this, save some welding and a few potential weeks, so this will give me a rough idea of ​​how much material I'm going to need.

The shape is nice, the contours are nice, now let's curve it. around the tail tank to give back to this crew ah choppers Inc. Billy's bike will be a memorial to Georgie Juban whose life ended tragically earlier this year. This is the defender we are going to use. Nevada's bike and barn is actually one that was built for my friend George's bike, his girlfriend murdered him in January, so hey, I'll keep riding with us. His motto was, you know, hooray for today, tomorrow! I mean, you know he was one of those types of people. I mean, we all try to think that way, but he lived it every day, it was Friday, it's him just strolling down the road loving life, look, these are these are these random, yeah, they're just his mistakes, like habit.

Billy makes his exhaust system out of factory reject pipes like that midnight again and we. We're just finishing up, so we're almost done with all the fabulous work, there are a few small details to finish, but all the important things are done. Larry will have to work hard if he wants to beat this thing because these bikes are Absolutely Crazy Joe Richardson has applied a pure black base coat on Billy's tank. Nice first step in Billy's intricate paint job. Silver leaf stripes only microns thick. A huge helicopter fat in the 60s. Blades are gaining momentum again meanwhile in custom car design in rural areas.

Connecticut Robert Pratt's key is working on Indian Larry baked into a masterpiece, first sanding the base layer of root beer metal flakes and then filling the cavities with glue to hold the sterling silver sheets. Robert textures the silver leaf with a delicate touch from a master craftsman what truly old school hot rod bike would be complete without a flame job Robert is ready for the finishing touches, adding the Indian Larry logo in breadcrumbs gold and panelssheet metal combos day 28 at choppers inc, the tank is finally back from painting I was like, oh man, it looks blue with that pearl, man, yeah, it looks great, Joe, there's peace and beauty, no It means he's gay or anything, okay, he's weird, so sexy, it'll be a shame for me to scratch.

All of that, you know, these '41 Chevrolet emblems are the front half and the back half which we didn't have, so I made a piece for it. Joe massaged it and then, um, this is from a 1934 Hudson Terrap

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hood emblem, let's see. If I can mount it from st. Louis to Sturgis without spilling a whiskey okay here's our frame we just got back to the chrome plating and I'm going to start putting it together after it's polished and plated with the correct polish and plated the sunlight hits it on the facets and catches Sound. looks like a shining diamond

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's engine comes from precise engineering it's really crazy to marry two radically different harley-davidson head styles the most important thing a layman would say is that it has a cover to take all the pancakes it's kind of like a plate head and this was a paddle head because before you split the box here it would look like a paddle, you know, the blunt end of the paddle, so that's mostly what the layman sees, but there are other internal differences here , the whole trick in this.The engine is to mix all the differences and make both heads exactly the same, but they still have two different appearances and, to me, it can't be strange enough or weird enough, you know, and it's totally more of a mechanical appearance, everything is as it is. all about the mechanics for me, something finished a little bit, okay, here we go, we're going to put this great Baker transmission put in the Lariat, just an efficient plate, hopefully, everything will fit, we're going to slide it back into the transmission and get It's there with just two days left.

Billy dives into the assembly. Long hair might have been working for Jesus, but now he didn't work on a bicycle. That's a beast of a custom engine assembled from sources new and old. It's on Billie's chassis. Trusting that he is so good is on the road is the first build that I didn't laugh and had a good time instead of freaking out and stressing out. I think Larry is my free pizza. We like to have a higher girl belt and this here is called traffic police, that's wrong, someone cut you off in traffic, good job Bobby, break the mirror with it, there's a big fat mouth that needs to get ready real quick , it's old school stuff and now another touch of old school, a kick off, only this could prove to be a big headache for mr.

Lane Billy installs an open chain drive, calls it a meat grinder, one slip and your toes are toast, what do you think we did pretty well? We have this bike basically at least 90% together. This is the first time and three versions we have. I like that Matt bet against the liar, so it's great to be that way, but there's always room for disaster when it comes to this kind of thing. So when we hit the ground running, I'll call Larry and say, listen, we're going to fire. he's on my phone pipes list he's a laugh in brooklyn in gas alley.

We just received the painting from Robert. A custom car design. This is a real silver and real gold leaf relief for the public. These two pieces are probably about five. thousand dollar paint job, it's an expensive job, okay you can let it go, we have a back emergency room and holy shit, and all of that was donated to us by Performance Machine for this project. No, the ability to compete. I have to make sure this is super tight. I think Billy has the same idea, that's me, wild child, wild child, you know, like that, everything, here we go, look, it's like it's made to go on there.

I'm just fishing the bike right now basically gotta put the exhaust pipes on it things are rolling at choppers Inc. Time to add fluids and now the final test kicking this retro monster oh damn I went through it but I can't turn it on. Billy crashed into a wall, so how are things going? for a Larry put on a little broadcast a minute almost ready to start this and now the moment of truth the sweet sound of success there in Florida the fight continues there is no feeling in the world like the feeling when all the love is gone for you We're going to turn it on and I hear the tubes on his phone, it's a giggle, it's not crazy, man, I blow like a doctor with a patient, Larry listens carefully to the beats of his engine tuning and refining, we're ready to go, the magneto turned on. a very weak spark on the plugs so i did some little tricks on it hoping to fix the problem i'm having, hey Jackie you see this weapon change, well i finished everything basically i started the bike.

Making a few adjustments here and there, I pack it up and head to st. Louis, you ride with Larry, the bike starts, but it's a grueling ride to Sturgis, even for the best-tuned machine. Billy has a lot of work ahead of him. Billy and Indian Larry meet at st. Louis Missouri, the gateway to the west, for your thousand mile journey to Sturgis, that's a lot of welding holy book every time I see them, although the gang is eager to get started. Billy's bike still doesn't work right. I've been trying for 10 days to get that bike. running well and I have been able to now here we are in Milton country my only other options are to walk push it I would help Billy in any way I can I sit there to see his face straight I don't even care if he wins these Chopper King he went to the store local Liquid Illusions to get a good look at the issues and see each other's attractions for the first time since the cheeky attraction.

Very nice. I didn't win the track. Nice, think about going out, but now, show-and-. No more about the last two long-haired boys. This will become the big

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fix instead of a biker build. 9:10 p.m. He's already a day late and time is of the essence, so what's in it for Larry? True friendship and Brotherhood are more important than all the money and all the things. Okay, not being able to start the engine, they start the bike with twist bars using the power. from Larry's Bike Billie's engine roars to life, they've gotten the bike started, but is it tuned for the long haul?

I mean, as soon as I open the throttle, it just spits and explodes, you know, if you need a gallon of milk from the corner or something, okay, maybe some cigarettes, but you want to go from st. Louis to South Dakota I don't really recommend going straight to a small carburetor, but I know our hands are tied with what we have, my smaller carbs might work, but there's no 7-eleven for bike parts, nothing. in some carburetors in the morning we see small cars at midnight, the producers make Indian Larry an offer, since the bike doesn't work, he can force Billy to quit, but Willy Nano has no door, although it just doesn't seem like the right thing to do .

I still couldn't go for a walk. I wish Williams would rebuild like winter, but the bottom line is who wins wins, they call it a night, but they have to leave at dawn if they have any hope of making it to Sturgis. On time and early the next morning, the gang reconvenes. Larry Couric from Mid-USA Motorcycle Parts comes to the rescue with a new set of carbs. You can smell gasoline when you woke up this morning, I'll go like and I actually wasn't. smelling it oh yeah that was pretty good 9:10am the problem wasn't resolved well the bike still runs like hell after everything we did last night and this morning so far this thing is spitting and exploding and peeking all over the damn place it's sad stories It's so sad, I don't have any idea, but I'm early and to be honest I'm stumped, really delicious, better with these barbers saying they're ready to give up a cassette, no I'm not saying let's go at 10:35am. m., one last chance yet.

Another set of carbs this time even smaller. I'm going to try the small carburetors and see which ones don't fix it. I'm going to pulverize it with this hammer. My options are starting to run out. Unbelievable, the new permit time was supposed to be like 3540 minutes, let me clarify. Actually, it works. It was working very, very well and then I want to go around here in several again. Deadline. Biker build producer Hugh King asks Billy. Will he ride his bike to Sturgis? now or you'll lose - Larry, you're going to get out of here with this one, give me like everything tomato, no, write it down, I'll write it down.

I'm ready to go. We put air filters in instead of losing them. Billy takes a risk. bike tested uncoiled ready Billy Snake so I hope so I'm on a bike I'm ready to hit the road with him running a day and a half behind ya Billy Larry there the teams finally set off for the grueling 980 mile ride to Sturgis we'll ride straight through From Missouri through Iowa and across Nebraska before heading north over the Black Hills directly toward Sturgis, the stress and turmoil of the last 30 days will simply melt away once these monster builders are finally on the road, driving fairly good.

I'm surprised it's a little out of tune, but it's not that far off from all the competition and carburetors disappear from the minds of long-haired guys that blow loose in the wind. This it is. These are old school hardtail bikes. Damn, that's a tough road. Billy's drive chain is like torn meat. Finger eating. It's scary. I didn't make it to be safe. Simply beautiful. Our heroes cross the heart of Nebraska in their meager helicopters to make up for lost time. Then some finally voted her into South Dakota. It feels great. I liked some incredible speeds. I like it.

I like it. This is actually the best bike I have ever ridden. It's one I've built. The best best bike of my entire life. Just above these hills is Sturgis, where the real competition begins in the morning. Billy and Larry will be there soon as long as the roads stay clear, but you never know what you'll encounter in the Dakotas, finally Sturgis Motorcycle Week, their grandparents' rally. Every August, the population of this otherwise sleepy city swells to more than 800,000, as helicopter and motorcycle lovers head to South Dakota for a week of alcohol and alcohol fanatics. Bikes just off the main street.

Ground zero for the helicopter dump and it's D-Day for Billy and Indian Larry who will win the trophy. Indian Larry's Root Beer masterpiece with metal flakes or Billy Lanes black and blue bling-bling. Then look at the increase before you cast your votes, this is faces. up the competition here guys these are the two classic guys go there and go two choppers inc that was awesome because of our exhaustion from the rigors of fame the choppers inc team is taking a break so hey god My dear, we receive you still hot as the tickets are. said the Indian Larry vents and now the moment of truth has arrived and the producers do not know the winner.

Larry and Billy have a different idea about how this contest ends, sorry I didn't like it, we don't have a winner here. He doesn't deserve to win Billy he doesn't deserve the win I don't deserve to lose Billy he doesn't deserve to lose this is a tie this is a disaster let's cut control-v in half okay where are we going Over here, happily, the helicopter gods have spoken of how it can There could be winners or losers in a game in which these two incredible steeds were created. One thing's for sure, Indian Larry and Billy Lane together created an old school helicopter, the real Victor here riding in the traditions of the 1960s through the 21st century and beyond