On this page there are some pictures of the progress of building the "BITCH".

Here I have just put the engine, rearwheel and forks in the frame and fitted the rearfender ( still way to long ) and tank. There's nothing wrong with my leg, I'm trying to find out where to put the forwardcontrols. Forks, wheels and dragbar are all from a donorbike that was lying about in the garage.

In the top picture you can see she's starting to look like a real motorcycle. Frontdrumbrake is a Honda "Black Bomber" item, rear is the original. Here I also fitted the obvious apehanger and open dragpipes. Less obvious, but a lot of work were the aluminum oiltank, batterycarrier with chainslider and forwardcontrols.
The bottom picture shows the bike's first time out, complete with "Accel" coils, K&N airfilters and homemade seat. I had to fiddle around with different front- and rearsprockets to get her running in the right ratio.

I put all the electrical components in this "Harley" teardrop toolbox.

Here she is in all her splendor. Frame powdercoated black, tank and fender powdercoated grey metallic with a grey pinstripe. In the back you can see my runaround bike, a '79 XT 500. Everybody should have one !

I tried this girder fork, but it didn't work very well. Rake and trail were way off. It felt like riding on ice, with the frontwheel falling into turns. Pity, I really liked it. I could see my own frontwheel while sitting on the bike.

On a holiday to France I blew the engine near Nice. Riding too long in too hot conditions with dragpipes turned my sparkplugs into torches and they burnt two big holes in my pistons. I found a good running CB 750 Bol 'd Or engine and fitted that. It took a lot of work. I needed to make new brackets for the engine, fit a bigger battery ( with miles of new wire because of the electronic ignition ) and loads of small but timeconsuming stuff. I also fitted a 5 gallon "Harley" tank. I connected them with sturdy brackets to prevent them from cracking ánd to put them a little further apart then original. In between I made brackets for the coils. I covered the gap with a yellow steel plate covered by a black plate, perforated with little round holes.

Somewhere along the line I also fitted ( again ) "Harley" Wide Glide triple trees ( or yokes, depending where you're from ) with the Wide Glide forklegs. Frontbrake is now a "Performance Machine" 4 - pot caliper grabbing a "Zodiac" skull and crossbones stainless steel disc.
Everything ( and I mean everything ) is powdercoated black. Tank, wheelrims, spokes, lower forklegs, headlightshell and rim, sissybar, the wide "Beachbar", even the mirror.
Well, like I said, she's retired now, just standing in the garage next to the Z650 and the VMax, but I'll never sell her. As you can see, we've spent quiet some time together.

Last Updated: December 30, 1998.