![]() ![]() Like the Sugar Bear Springer, the bike’s five-spoke Invader wheels are timeless chopper style. The color scheme is subtle, letting the engraved Shovel and fork shine brighter. The soft orange, red, and yellow tones of the paint on the peanut tank and back fender blend well with the tannish-brown hue of the seat. Skinny and stretched, a tall king and queen saddle and cross-shaped sissy bar help balance the rear with the raised front end. A skilled engraver added an artistic flair to the Shovelhead’s rocker boxes and the bike’s taillight. The powerful presence established by the shiny stainless steel front end carries from the stretched neck to the upswept straight pipes. So if the new owner of the 1976 Shovelhead chopper for sale on eBay wants to get on the gas, the ride will be dialed. Sugar Bear’s chopper front end provides style for miles, flows on the open road, and will turn-in and hold its line reliably. Custom, chrome, black anodized, or polish finish, Torpedo and Bomber legs. The closer the axle to the front legs, the stiffer the ride, the farther out, the softer the ride.” Timeless Chopper Style Hawg Halters - Complete Front Ends for your Harley Davidson motorcycle. Three axle positions are provided for setting the stiffness of the ride. ![]() The best ride is achieved on Springers when the Rockers are parallel to the ground. “The front legs are threaded at the bottom to allow adjustments by the front Clevis to set the Rockers parallel to the ground depending on the weight of the motorcycle. He also offset the fork’s triple trees, boosting the turning radius.Ī 1973 ad for Sugar’s Springers explains how he achieved his results. That enabled him to push his forks to more extraordinary lengths. Sugar Bear built his Springers out of round solid steel instead of tubing, the route frequently chosen by other builders at the time. By 1974, he was building them to 40 inches-sometimes stretching his magic to 60 inches. When Sugar Bear first opened his shop, he made his signature Springer fork up to 18 inches over stock. See: Our Four Favorite Outlaw Biker Movies. Hardy and Cliff Vaughs built the iconic Captain America and Billy motorcycles from Peter Fonda’s 1969 classic movie Easy Rider. Initially self-taught, Sugar Bear further developed his skills with Benny Hardy, another SoCal bike-building legend. Sugar Bear’s reputation was well established before he opened Sugar Bear’s Shop Chop in South Central, Los Angeles, in 1971. ![]() Shop now for motorcycle fork tubes Round Solid Steel For example, the 1976 Shovelhead Chopper for sale on eBay rocks a sweet Sugar Bear Springer, upping its cool factor ten-fold. Sugar Bear developed a signature front end rocker, and by using different rockers for different fork lengths, created choppers with crazy rakes that could still turn in smoothly. ![]() His sweet-handling forks for chopper motorcycles are masterpieces of art and engineering. Call, e-mail or visit your MCS dealer, anywhere in Europe, and the finest, coolest parts are yours! We offer 24h delivery anywhere in Europe.The motorcycle builder known as “Sugar Bear” has been working magic on rake angles and trail since the 1960s. To find our accessories and parts just surf to our website and check our on-line catalog. Our biker lifestyle products include T-shirts, rain gear, protective Kevlar pants, helmets, sunglasses, you name it. When it’s time to cruise, check out our clothing for fashion to ride in style. If you need specialized tools and tooling for the road or your workshop, MCS has it. For most US made V-Twin machines we have the hottest in chrome, stainless, black or anodized in a custom, classic old skool or radical retro selection. If it’s a radical Swedish chopper, bobber, racer, dirt tracker, street tracker, cruiser, café racer, full dresser with windshield and saddlebags, tricked-out bagger, Softail, hardtail, rigid lowrider or even a cool stock stripped H-D Touring, we’ve got you covered. No matter If you are planning to build, overhaul, do a restoration to transform your ratbike in to a showbike or just planning a simple repair. All parts are supplied from our Netherlands, EU, based warehouse. Over 70000 products from stock! We offer replacement to high performance parts for your Milwaukee Eight / M8, Twin Cam, Evolution, Shovel, Early Shovel, Panhead, Knucklehead, Sportster and yes, even OEM style bolt-on replacement parts for the antique 45" Flathead and KH side valve motorcycles. Motorcycle Storehouse BV offers the largest selection of leading brands in aftermarket parts for Harley-Davidson motorcycles. ![]()
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