Design for a brake bracket to adapt a three piston Buell brake caliper to a ¾ axle Harley wheel for more stopping power.

Buell three piston brake caliper mount for ¾ Harley wheel (with stay). Works a million times better than the chunky/ineffective stock setup.

Building a jig to heat form bends for a custom sissy bar.

The basic sissy bar, prior to decorative elements being added. I love building sissy bars. They are a simple solution to a simple problem, but one that can be addressed in a million different ways. There are no limitations but your own creativity.

This weird looking little item serves several purposes. It’s a chain guard, an exhaust mount, and it has a NPT brass oil fitting for the crankcase oil breather, oiling the chain with any oil mist from the case.

Here is what the chain guard/chain oiler/exhaust mount from the previous photo looks like installed. An important detail that will all but disappear once the exhaust is mounted.

Custom headlight bracket for a Sportster.

Ignition switch and starter button box built into the top motor mount on a chopper frame. A small detail, but one that serves several functions while keeping a low profile. A subtle element on a not-so-subtle bike.

Tail light/license plate side mount bracket. I’ve made a bunch of these for different applications.

Custom oil tank build for a super skinny Ironhead frame. This photo shows the mockup/pattern drafting part of the process, where I use cardstock and tape to rough out my design. You can see there are a number of elements here to work around. There is also a start on a seat pan mockup. You often have to think about multiple parts when designing, so that they all fit together in the end. Nothing drives me crazier than a design that solves one problem, only to create a larger one somewhere else.

Top view of the Ironhead frame with the frame mounts tacked in. You can see how skinny that frame is. The holes are for rubber isolator mounts that will thread into bungs in the top of the oil tank. Not a lot of wiggle room here.

Side view of the oil tank mocked up. There are still a couple of spots that need to be trimmed before it is welded up, but the main thing is that it fits the lines of the bike.

Another mockup photo with the exhaust added.

Combination motor mount/coil side mount bracket. If there’s an option that includes heat bending steel, that’s always my go-to.

Drawings for a Mikuni HSR42 choke cable relocation bracket. There are a number of products on the market that do something similar, but none of them work exactly the way I want, and I prefer to solve problems in my own manner.

The choke bracket with bungs fitted and installed on the carburetor.

Machining the choke knob out of aluminum round stock.

Exhaust bracket for a custom rubber-mount Sportster exhaust.

Custom brake stay designed to match the style of the frame. A small detail, but one I found particularly pleasing.