Two Bad

need i say more on this bike...?? for those of you who don't ever saw this masterpiece, it Arlen Ness's Two Bad... built out of two Ironhead Sportster engines... concept, fabrication, machinery, and details flawless-ly executed...

take a look at every deatil on that bike... framework without top tubes, the horizontal frontend, two Ironheads with magnetos + four barrel carburetors + supercharger (i assumed you folks know the hassle of running a single Ironhead...) that work together... not to mention the paintjob + engraving + gold leafing + gold plating...

hail King Arlen...

picture snapped by another King, the great Michael Lichter...

Ness Van

arlen ness smooftail

The ‘Smooftail’ was designed in 1993 and shown at the San Diego Antique motorcycle show, but the frame never went into production.

Only three prototype frames were assembled – one was later turned into Arlen Ness’ Convertible bike, and the other two were left at the back of Arlen’s workshop – until Battistinis managed to buy one.

Here you can see the frame which was turned into the finished ‘Smooftail’

the King...

Shovel-VL

Arlen Ness built this luvly Shovelhead in a VL frame. take a closer look at the foot controls... sweet huh..??

photos by Michael Lichter