This is my Newsboy I built this summer. Seat is from a 38 Elgin which I rebuilt. Made the gas tank, grips, leather tail light, front fender and rear rack copper jewel lights, copper dropstand, custom sidecar mounts. Sidecar is made from a seventeen foot Grumman canoe, cut off, narrowed and upholstered in elk hide. Pk-80 engine from Pirate, expansion exhaust from Sick Bike Parts. Bike was not quite done in the photo. I wasn't trying to make a boardtracker, but I did want an early motorcycle look and wanted it to look fast, my interpretation of an Indian that never was. The front fender light has brass filigree and glass dragonfly wings. In the Native world, dragonly is a symbol of agility and speed. As a boy my older brother said when we grew up he was going to have an Indian Motorcycle with a sidecar and I could ride in the sidecar. He grew up, forgot about it and I never grew up. So I have the Indian to ride and Aaniimoosh the wonder dog gets to ride in the sidecar. Ha!
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