The original idea was built around a stock 70's vintage Harley FLH and is a bolt on installation that uses original HD wheels, shocks and fenders etc. The prototype was equipped with hand controls that I also designed and fabricated and have room for my wheelchair in a pick-up like box located between the two rear wheels.

I had the good fortune to test drive this prototype in 1999 by making a tour of the States. The tour began in Phoenix on the 23rd of June and ended two months to the day in August. I traveled to Texas to visit old friends and headed for Atlanta for some of the same. After leaving Georgia, I headed for New England to visit family and friends and prepare for the trek to the Bike Week events in Sturgis, South Dakota.

I got caught in a hard rain while negotiating rush hour traffic through Chicago but I can't really complain about the weather because that was the only bad that I ran into on the whole trip. Sturgis has really spread itself out since my last trip in 1987 and the closest place I could find to stay was on a ranch that was ten miles down a gravel road from Belle Fouche in a little town called Fruitville population 68.

I tested my invention in all kinds of conditions and all I can say is that the 8 years that it took me to design and build the bike was worth every minute of effort. The new design below allows me to lean almost as much as a two wheeler and unlike all of the other designs looks like a regular bike instead of fiberglass and car type tires etc.

Part of this process involved securing a patent for this one of a kind drive and independent suspension that took me from the drawing board to the road. In the first year of its inception I put over 30,000 miles on this machine and now have completing a revised version of the prototype which incorporates all of Harley's advancements such as the Evolution engine, Fatboy wheels and late model brake system etc.

The new bike uses FXR shocks which makes it handle even more like a regular bike than the prototype. The Evolution engine has 10:1 wiseco pistons, an Andrews EV 27 cam and the Dyna 'S' single fire ignition handles the extra weight with ease.
I now have a four speed tranny, instead of three speed and reverse with a jockey lid that the prototype had, with a ratchet top and by spring I will have an electric reverse and plan on another trip west.