Monday, May 7, 2012

Joe Hurst's Black Bear

Anyone who has been following the blog has seen several of the bikes that Joe built over the years. I always tell Joe, you need a program to follow what bike was what, which version, and the years to keep track of them all. As a matter of fact, between this bike and the last few versions of the chrome frame bike, there were a couple versions of his red bike which I haven't posted yet. Except for having H-D 9 spoke mags and a Sportster tank, the red bike was very similar to this black bike.


If I remember correctly this is from 1995. Joe never call it Black Bear. That's just what I think is an appropriate name for it.




It's a very purpose built bike. That purpose being function and performance. It was sold to a friend many years ago yet still exist and for the most part, is totally intact.

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4 comments:

Rene said...

I'm in love!!!!

Irish Rich said...

Chris, you're killin' me! Where's the left hand shots????

That fucking bike is NICE! You tell Joe I said hello.....

Chris K said...

Rich, Joe never sent a left side shot of the bike back then but, did recently send me a back left side shot of how the bike sits today. It still features a open primary with the original Phase III belt drive and final belt drive setup.

Joe kind of downplayed this bike when he first told me about it, but everybody who sees it loves it.

Joe called me last night and there's some stuff brewing about this bike that I'll get to soon. .... oh, yeah, he now officially calls it Black Bear.

Noot said...

The guy's built a lot o' stuff . . .