Since 2012, the good folks at Old Bike Barn have presented one of the nation’s great grassroots motorcycle events, the Greasy Dozen Collective, where sponsors help a dozen garage-builders kick-start their projects, giving them a deadline to compete their builds. It all culminates in The Greasy Dozen Run, an organized ride along some of Ohio’s best backroads, leading to a campsite where festivities are held:

“The GDR remains a traditional grassroots motorcycle event that is built around bringing like minded individual’s together! We want to give back to the people who help keep these small shops and business afloat in a world run by large corporations. The Greasy Dozen Run is a free event and will remain a free event as long as we’re around!”

Enter our new friend Nigel Mount, a Colorado-based fabricator who started in his father’s restoration shop, working on vintage cars, and has spent the last two years working at a custom Harley shop:

“I’ve been learning from two OG’s who’ve been building hot rods and choppers since the late 1950’s. So far I’ve only built two personal custom bikes.”

The kick-in-the-pants for this project came when it was selected for the Greasy Dozen’s class of 2020, giving Nigel a deadline to complete the build. The bike started life as a 2002 Buell Thunderbolt S3T, a fuel-injected V-twin sport-touring machine with Dynamic Digital Fuel Injection (DDFI) and a Thunderstorm heads, putting out 101 horsepower at the crank. Says Nigel:

“The bike was bought because I was broke and it had been sitting in the back of the shop for years and believed to have a broken bottom end. I bought it because it was all I could afford and was going stir crazy only working on customer bikes. From there the frame seemed to really lend itself to a tracker type bike. Also Colorado has tons of winding mountain roads that will just become dirt, so it made sense from a practical standpoint too.”

With a tight deadline and no space of his own to work on the bike, Nigel nonetheless went into full-blown fabrication mode, working on the bike in 30 minutes stints during his lunches, breaks, evenings after work, and several Saturdays. Given the compressed time frame, the list of modifications is simply staggering, including a fully adjustable swingarm, one-off welded aluminum tank, billet seat frame, Fiat Fulvia two-throat carb with a one-off billet intake manifold, moving the six-piston calper to the rear, and so much more.

Unfortunately, the ‘Rona cancelled this year’s Greasy Dozen event, but a digital showcase is coming soon (Aug/Sep 2020) and Nigel will be at a few shows around Stugis next week (Aug 8-13). Below, we get the full story on this stunning build from Nigel himself, along with more stunning shots from Enrique Parilla (@eparrillacreates).

You can read the Builder Interview here.

Original Source [bikebound]

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