- Custom made by Strokers Dallas in 2005
- One of the wildest Customs created by Rick Fairless
- Custom artwork throughout
- 121-cubic-inch V-Twin engine with belt drive
LOT 617
Selling on Saturday Evening
One-Off Custom by Rick Fairless
2005 ASVE “Bettie” Custom Chopper
OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE
The best way to describe this Chopper are the direct words from Rick Fairless - a legendary custom builder and owner of Strokers Dallas from Dallas, Texas.
Rick stated: "In 2005, I was on an airplane with my wife; she was reading some romance novel and I was thinking about a new custom build I wanted to do. I was thinking...the motor is the heart of the motorcycle, so what if I had a frame that curved around the motor...that could be cool. I drew it out and liked what I saw. When I got back to the shop, I found a metal shop that could bend 6-inch tubing. The frame would have the gas tank in the main part of the frame and the oil would be on the lower part of the frame with a little cooling area between the two. I knew that my idea of the curved frame had never been done before so I was excited to build it. As she started going together, I made an observation that she was very curvy like Bettie Page and suddenly the bike had a name..."Bettie"! I wanted a big fat rear tire with no rear fender. I made the spoke wheels curvy, as a child would draw the sun with sun rays! I wanted lots of rake with a Springer front end. "Bettie" had to have a big, painted motor! I wanted the paint to be a plethora of bright colors, in a psychedelic style since that is kind of my signature anyway. We painted all kinds of '60s, groovy designs all over the bike - checkerboard lips, mushrooms, a flower with an eyeball in the center, Koi fish, abstract John Lennon, a four-headed dog, the Zig Zag guy and of course - an abstract Bettie Page painted prominently on the top center of the bike! When I revealed this bike to the world, it was unlike anything anybody had ever seen before, people's minds were blown...Mission Accomplished! To this day, I believe that "Bettie" is still one of the coolest motorcycles on the planet!"
"Bettie" features a custom frame that contains both the gas and oil tanks within the incredible custom artwork. Powered by a Total Performance 121-cubic inch V-Twin engine with belt drive, a huge springer front end, a solo saddle, and a rigid rear end and super-wide custom wheels and tires. If a one-of-a-kind custom chopper is on your bucket list, there are few opportunities like this one, to bid on a true legendary bike known as "Bettie" to custom cycle enthusiasts everywhere. Why hang art on the wall when this is literally art you can ride?
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