Quick video of Big Twin

This link goes to a video from the Facebook page of Bones Legacy where AEE's Big Twin currently resides. Big Twin is at the start and end....be warned its real quick and you can't see much but when have you ever seen video of Big Twin?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=228226217295188&set=vb.136657089785435&type=3&theater

Been busy!

Between working out of town, having a new home and my wife getting a new job...well the blog has languished and I apologize. I'll try to step it up a bit!

How about a nice skinny rear?

Article about Dave Brackett's hot rod

Great article and pictures about Dave's old hot rod he ran on the street back when he lived with Tom McMullen...cool car and nice article. Happy to see Dave get more recognition. Check it out!

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=19865

AEE reverse rib fender

A friend of the AEE John Kelly (he has an interesting build going on that is AEE related but more on that when he is ready) recently came across an AEE rarity....our reverse rib fender. Fenders are a dime a dozen but these reverse ribs were quite unique at the time and you won't find one very often. Fenders are one of those things that get changed often and so there aren't many left. As you can see in the pictures (excuse the hideous green paint) the side fender lip has a crease rolled in to it. If you look at our sissy bars the fender mount brace mimics this shape and they are a perfect match together, notice too the arc of the fender. I checked with Dave Brackett our brilliant designer and engineer and he indicated that our sub-contractor HOG Manufacturing in LA made these for us. We had been getting regular fenders from them and asked if they could do something different and this is the result. I remember quite clearly cutting the hell out of myself most days trying to separate stacks of these fenders so we could ship them out. Sold a ton of them! Enjoy another small piece of AEE history......

re-rake

Dave talked with me about the amount of "flop" in the kit bike's front end. He said we should do something about it as the trail number was much too high, about 8".
He cooked up an idea of how to remedy it.....First he would bend the upper triple tree plate 5 degrees, then he would extend and then re-machine the lower tree with a 5 degree rake in the stem. Then he would extend the legs of the square glide about 4"....we would end up with a chopper that is about 5" longer, sits about the same, steers better, no flop and has a wonderful trail number of 3".  I said sounded good to me (thats because I understand it and how to do the work its beyond my abilities). Sure enough Dave whipped it out in a couple days of hard work. Look carefully at the pictures. While the kit bike is not sitting on the lift in the exact same position you can see the difference in the tree (no rake one picture, rake in next) and its easy to see the additional length.....amazing work by an amazing guy Dave Brackett!

AEE Supersport

I don't think I have posted this particular picture of the AEE Supersport before. In my opinion this was the "sleekest" of the AEE builds. The flow of the tank and frame are spot on. Once again a Dave Brackett creation.

NOT how to haul your chopper

Recently on one of my favorite websites, the Jockey Journal, there was  discussion about hauling bikes and the variety of lash up's seen. I mentioned that once at Disney World during Daytona Bike Week I had seen an HD tied to the roof of a Caddy. What looked like clothesline went through the windows and held the bike on top of the roof and trunk. At least that was my memory. Sure as heck one of the guys posted this picture (outside a Hooters no less). Don't know if its the same one but here you have how not to transport a bike.

A BSA with an AEE square glide.

One of our readers used an eagle eye to spy out the AEE square glide front end on this "bobber". It appears to be a BSA in a modified stock frame though I could be way wrong. I'd love to know who's this is and how they came on to the square glide. Not many out there any more. Nice clean build, minimalist.

A couple more pictures of the Kit Bike

Some day soon for all of us!

NO AEE parts but when the time comes I'm building one of these!

AEE Kit Bike update

Below is a nice article and pictures about the ongoing AEE Kit Bike project. Make sure to also check out Dave's other articles about every AEE bike are very worth taking a look at.

http://www.bikerhotline.com/guestcolumnists/2013/13_aee_choppers_remake_sportster_kit_bikes_dbrackett/

Nice bike from one of our followers...

Check this out....an original Sugar Bear build.
Sugar Bear was one of our favorite customers at AEE and he has kept building for over 40 years now and still going strong.
This bike is owned by Mark Bottoms and is featured in the June issue of The Horse (pictures shot at Sugar Bear's shop).
 It’s all Bear, front end, goose neck he even made the seat pan.  No front brake, those are just to keep the cops off. Shhhh.
Enjoy and thanks Mark for supporting our efforts to keep the spirit alive.

Interview with Tom and Rose

Over the next week or so I am going to post up the compelte interview with tom and Rose from Custom Chopper magazine in February 1973. Asks lots of questions, doesn't answer some of them but I'll comment at the end. Interesting article especially since it was in a competing magazine to the McMullen's Street Chopper.
UPDATE!!!!!
I HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT THESE PAGES SCANNED TOO SMALL. I WILL RESCAN AND REPOST SOON.

AEE Corvair Trike title!

Thanks to Scott Russell at Motosport Hillsboro we now have a copy of the title for the famous AEE Corvair Trike. He was the 4th owner (AEE, then winner of the contest that gave away the Trike, gentleman shown on this title and then Scott). Scott sold it about 10 years ago to someone in Southern California and we haven't seen it since. Scott said it was in fairly rough shape with the pipes missing and some of the chrome not doing well but certainly could be restored.
Thanks again Scott and for anyone up Oregon/Washington way you might want to check in with him, he is a large dealer and has a motorcycle collection with some chopper sin it:

Scott Russell
President

Shop:  503.648.4555
Cell:    971.246.2073

Spinner mirror

This showed up on Ebay......nice condition especially with the sticker on it. We always sold the iron cross mirror and later added the spinner and crescent to the offerings. These were bought from a vendor but I do not know which one.

Hot rod video Tom's 32 for a few seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYBvpMLpPPw

In this video for the 1965 Winternationals we can see Tom's 32 at the 7:50 mark for a few seconds......worth viewing just to see the car moving and revel in the flames.
If you are a fan of hot rods watch the whole thing, more famous racers than you can shake a stick at back when racing was the golden years!

More new shots of Tom's roadster

This is before Tom owned the car when Don Hudson had done the work on it.....beautiful work and great car but turned in to the iconic hot rod by Tom McMullen and others.

Bear with me!

I have some great stuff coming but have to get my move out of the way first so be patient! Also my wonderful wife has had 3 operations in 5 weeks and that has slowed up, well, stopped our life completely. Those are behind us and the move will be done soon then back to providing more AEE goodness!

Kit Bike pipes

Dave got the pipes done and they look perfect. We are getting close to mold, paint and chrome time. Couldn't do this without Dave putting his efforts in to this build too. Again nearly every part on this one is all AEE original items.

Moving

I am moving in the next 30 days and need to cut my stock of AEE parts a wee bit.

I have a few seats (2 K&Q's, one pad and one cobra...parts sticker still on a couple of them), a square springer, one sissy bar, a Honda 750 frame and the holy grail of all AEE parts....a single leg girder. 
If you are interested email me at:
takehikes@gmail.com and I can supply pictures.

Meanwhile on the parts front today there are 36 parts listed as AEE on Ebay and exactly one is....there is one other that we and others sold but only one real live AEE part and 34 others that aren't.....buyer beware!