TCMC Custom Bike Show, Sweden

Did great trip to TCMC Custom Bike Show. Came back yesterday. Trip went well, Sporster worked and weather was good, except few of shower of rains. This was my 14th time to visit there and now Summer officially started for me. Hangover. Over and out.

Neiman (or similiar) steering lock install to Motorcycle

Long time, no posts. Have had lots of things on my hands. Here´s one of them. As I had inspection for my HD Sporster (it passed and is now street legal), I had to install steering lock into it. Funny thing is that last summer when I bought this bike, I did not inspect it because I knew that they might check out if I have it or not and I thought that it is that much work, that I install it later. Then summer passed and I still had no steering lock nor my bike inspected...Anyway, now I decided that I´ll put it on. And quess what. The inspector did not even look at the lock! Here´s the story of how to install Neiman (or similiar) steering lock to any bike.

This is The Place

First. Smaller hole.

Then bigger until it reaches 10mm. Drill all the way thru steering neck. Or halfway, to be precise. Bleed Baby, Bleed! It is cutting paste, which bleeds, if You wonder.

Now the lock part goes inside ( I have longer version, there is other version too)...

...BUT. There is that neck, which should go inside too.

I took off material with dremel type tool and after the operation, it looked like this.

And this is how it should go inside.

Then it is time to weld. Double check that the lock works, that way so the hole inside matches the lock!!!!

Welded. Badly, but it stays, good enough for me.

Then some matte black on and it is ready. Some people of course take the whole front end off, but I did not saw that neccessary. It works. Even inspector did not noticed it, I have valid steering lock now. Great. And it was not that bad to install. For me, it took about 2 hours or so to put it on.

My HD Sporster Ironhead 1980

I bought it as it is in these pictures and it seems to work fine (I haven´t driven it more than maybe 60km yet). I am not planning to do anything to it, except change battery, oils + normal maintenance. Maybe I´ll take that windscreen & backrest off. I´ll have to go to inspection with this too, since it is imported straight from U.S.A.

One thing, which I´ll have to do, because our stupid laws, is that I´ll have to put steering lock into it. Otherwise it is not street legal! That one, which is there now, is not valid in Finland. Strange, but that´s how it is. Also I´ll have to put some mufflers into exhaust pipes. I am planning to drive this to Custom Bike Show at Sweden this summer.

This is really nice to drive and it feels like I sit on a bull.

I call this as "Sonny", since this painting is signed as "Sonny -92". Does anyone happen to know more of this Sonny? Did he owned and painted this, or did that Sonny just painted it? If anyone knows anything about this bike, please inform.

Watch out this video to see it running

HD Sporster Ironhead 1980

My Youtube Channel

My Youtube Channel

If You are interested of various kind of motor etc. projects, check this out. There will soon be lots of more content. Now there is videos mainly about my Royal Enfield Chopper, but videos about my VW bug & Dodge Ram Van + other machines are coming later. It just came to my mind, that I should do little introduction video from every machine I have. Yes. That I will do quite soon.

Today we have gig at Ironbar MC. Meanwhile I listened our gig set, I did video from my life.

It is called: "My Life Packed In Four Minutes"