Texas Scooter Times

�Willie Frazier’s CLEAN ‘77 bagger was voted Peoples Choice at the Texas Scooter Times Houston Swap Meet’s Chopper Show May 3rd. Painted and assembled by Willie hisself the clean shovelhead only had 100 miles on the build after being together for the past 2 years.
�Maddog, Show Judge who owns Bad to the Bone Motorcycles in Cold Spring agreed later after the trophy presentations. "I knew it was going to do well for the Peoples Choice Trophy. I had to tell spectators gawking at it that I was the judge and really needed to get closer to it than they did."
�Willie unfortunatly missed the semi-informal trophy presentation at the Humble Civic Center Expo Building and his large trophy is being mailed to him from the Texas Scooter Times office building in downtown Itasca.
�"I’m gonna take the trophy apart to mail it," smiled Red Roberts co-owner of the Times, "But after lookin’ at Willie’s scooter myself last weekend - I don’t think that putting it back together should pose TOO MUCH of a problem for a talented builder like him."
�Congratulations Willie, the check’s (scuse me) trophy’s in the mail!!!!!!!!!!!

�Texas Scooter Times’ Chopper Show at the May 3rd Houston Swap Meet saw Tim Moseley take the coveted Judges Choice trophy back home to Livingston. His ‘07 FRESH Custom Chopper caught Judge Maddog of Bad to the Bone Motorcycles eye for First Place in the Home Built Class too. Tim said that he’d lost track on how much money that he’d spent on the scooter that he put together in his garage with David Stanley’s help.
�It took them 6 months to build the bike. shoehorning a 260mm tire into a 240mm frame, fabricating the battery box, air dam, frame gussets & handlebars. A beautiful $6500 paint job by Brent Bernard finished off the project into it’s trophy winning state.
�Shop Built Class at the Humble Civic Center Expo Building came down to 3 scooters tugging & pulling for the 2 trophys. Humble’s Cutthroat Customs were listed as the builders of Clint Wallace’s & Danny "Sancho" Sanchez’s scooters while Katy’s Jeff Naron took 6 years for him and Rick Nron to build his S & S motored custom together in Hal Cort’s Shop.
�Jeff’s all aluminum frame’d scooter with a GSXR front end and wheels also features Climax Controls and a custom transmission along with the 40th Anniversary motor and he says, "it’s built to be ridden FAST. Jeff displayed the bike to the delight of the crowd in his Swap Meet Booth where he used it to show his custom painting talents.
�The 2 WILD Cutthroat Customs bikes are also used as rolling - ridin’ - shop displays. Clint’s bike is known as a Cutthroat Girder and Danny’s piece is listed as a Chopper Chief. Danny painted both scooters and both built them at the FM 1960 shop. The amount of fabrication on both of their bikes far exceeds the amount of "bought" parts and pieces as both bikes feature shop built frames, front ends, exhaust, plumbing, seats, handlebars. They didn’t build their own nuts & bolts and tires but that was about all. Judging the Shop Built Class probably gave Maddog eyestrain!!!
�Maddog called a TIE for 2nd place in the Manufacturers Built Class. Dale Callier’s ‘98 Heritage Springer and Ronnie Warman’s ‘04 Dyna scored the same amount of points in the 6 different catagories that bikes are scored on at the Texas Scooter Times Chopper Shows. Bikes are scored on: Wires & Cables (routing & condition), Nuts & Bolts (proper sizing - fastening devices - washers & condition), Seat - Tank - Fender (mounting & fitment) Paint & Chrome (corrosion containment), Angles & Flow (pipes - forks - handlebars - sissybars), & Overall Appearance (forethought & execution). Dale & Ronnie’s scooters were looked over twice and came out the same both times - DEAD EVEN. (So I think we upped an extra trophy we had for one of them!!)
�First Place in the Manufacturers Built Class without a doubt though went to the 2000 Heritage Softtail Classic belonging to Springs Bob Hanna. Misfit Motorcycles in Montgomery is given credit for the bike’s assembly with a $2499 Harley Davidson paint job. In the 2 years that it’s taken to transpose the bike into the show winner it is, Bob spent $30,000 on changing the soft bags to hard bags, putting on a fairing instead of a windshield and placing a LOT of very tasteful chrome on the unique ride. It had only been together for 4 months and had just under 15000 miles when it rolled into the Expo Building to WOW the judge.
�LOTS of folks enjoyed looking not only at the bikes in the show BUT in the parking lot of the Expo Building as well. Plenty of NEAT scooters rode up to check out the competition and no doubt several of those went away going. "NEXT TIME"!!!!!