Choppers were never meant to be long and useless…they were meant to be urban assault vehicles. Short, tight, light, and right. Getaway machines. Evasion, speed, performance…these were part of the formula for building a great chopper.At what point in history did returning a vintage Harley back to stock and treating it like a fragile sculpture become the norm?
When did people stop seeing them as a solid platform for a urban assault vehicle?
I mean you can surely find a handful of Shovels being built and used that way…but the Pans, Knucks and Flatties?
The Japanese get it. They understand perfectly. Just look at this small club based out of Osaka called the BASARA MC. The BASARA was started by a guy named Akihiro Inoue who rides a 54 Panhead with no front brakes.
There is no president in BASARA, but all of the members really like Akihiro. My good friend MotoYan from Tokyo told me about the first time he saw a BASARA member:
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