[Bodyworx]

I actually like different looking engines. However the design flaws are an issue obviously.

 

[Soulfur]

The more I read this thread the more I want one I guess it just in me to want to fix some thing or build a bike out of parts that people say are junk or ugly or beyond repair but that's just me never did care much about other peoples opinions not about my bikes anyway that's just my 2 cents

You are just a few beers away from an Hanlon Excelsior...

 

[Necron99]

You are just a few beers away from an Hanlon Excelsior...

Watcha you talkin' 'bout? The Super X was a great idea ruined by flawed managers!
Deadwood Special with "normal" forks:

The original new Super X with weird front end:

 

[toyguy]

I owned one and loved it.

 

[gearhead1951]

do a youtube search for "super vee motorcycle engines " and you will find a vid of three of them on the freeway !

 

[drhach]

Watcha you talkin' 'bout? The Super X was a great idea ruined by flawed managers!

Nielsen in Libertyville still has a few of those in the crate that they could never unload.

 

[Necron99]

Nielsen in Libertyville still has a few of those in the crate that they could never unload.

I want one because they are weird and different. Also I would love some HOG Yuppie to tell me to park my Jap shit somewhere else.

I like bikes that get you involved.

 

[kickstarts]

do a youtube search for "super vee motorcycle engines " and you will find a vid of three of them on the freeway !

Here it is. The riders are Nostalgia Cycle guys. Listen to the ad copy the announcer has to read. Embarrassing.

 

[hogster]

seemed like a good idea at the time,but then so did being married

 

[Soulfur]

Nielsen in Libertyville still has a few of those in the crate that they could never unload.

I've driven mine back and forth across the country and up and down the east coast - #1229 isn't anywhere close to stock anymore but I love it almost unspeakably -

Here is the front end sans fender with 47 Industries fork brace

in the meantime, back to SuperVee

(and that's not a deadwood with a hydraulic front end, that's an American X - one of two and the only one left {the other was converted back to a super x and sold} - it just sold again and I think back to founder Dan Hanlon)

 

[Dr. Benway]

seemed like a good idea at the time

I still think it's a good idea. SBC parts are everywhere...the motor just needs to be done by someone who gives a damn.

 

[Soulfur]

i still think it's a good idea. In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.

+ 1

(and yes, I can, at the moment quote old bill ad nauseum)

 

[kickstarts]

I still think it's a good idea. SBC parts are everywhere...the motor just needs to be done by someone who gives a damn.

I agree.

 

[Necron99]

Here it is. The riders are Nostalgia Cycle guys. Listen to the ad copy the announcer has to read. Embarrassing.

Notice how the footage of the bikes going down the road is used over and over again.
As for the regular forked Super X...you are correct!
I think that one would have made a difference.

 

[sawmillman]

Who ownes the rights to the engines now.Can i git my hands on one?

 

[worn]

Wasn't it Nostalgia that built the horizontally split "Harley" engines with the barrels cast with the upper case half before they came up with the Supervee?

 

[kickstarts]

Wasn't it Nostalgia that built the horizontally split "Harley" engines with the barrels cast with the upper case half before they came up with the Supervee?

Yup. I think they had a pan and a shovel version.

 

[flatblack]

Yeah, this was a new one for me too. Never heard of them before reading this thread. Seems like a neat idea, crippled from conception. It actually seems kind of quaint now, when you can buy a 140 CI Ultima V-twin engine out of a catalog and have it shipped to your house on a pallet delivered by the UPS man.

It was another time, I suppose.

 

[Danny F.]

Wasn't it Nostalgia that built the horizontally split "Harley" engines with the barrels cast with the upper case half before they came up with the Supervee?

Here...

http://www.jockeyjournal.com/forum/...8&highlight=nostalgia+cycle+shovel#post530528