The bike is Lucky Devil 001, the first Chopper with a Lucky Devil VIN number. The Devil's crew is currently finishing-up the final steps to become a licensed Manufacturer.

"We have no intentions of large production runs," Kent said. "We just want to provide our customers with the ability to purchase a fair insurance rates, easy registration and so on."

This bike is destined for a regular Lucky Devil customer, Mike. As usual Kent is responsible for mock up, fabrication and final assembly. "We plan on shooting semi gloss black paint with some gold leaf scroll work," Kent said lighting his torch, "and red pinstriping will be handled by Jesse Galvan. We are also thinking about a tooled leather seat for this project."

The front end is a 15-over springer from Denvers Choppers, "One of my favorite springers," the little Devil muttered. "We ordered it without chrome and fender mounts. We'll fabricate custom fender mounts before chroming." The frame for the first Devil production bike was ordered from Xtreme Cycle design. It has a 3-inch stretch in the back bone and 6 inches in the single down tube, coupled with a 40 degree rake. "We run all Performance Machine brakes (another L.D.M.W. preferred product), hand and foot controls as well as their hydro clutch assembly."

For the drive train they will launch this monster with a 124-inch TP motor , Baker 6-speed left side drive, Kenny Boyce primary , Spike starter , Extreme machine wheels, and Metzler tires. The tank tabs and bungs are Lucky Devil items and they use Softail style rubber inserts. The oil tank is a Choppers Inc. product (mounting was a snap ).

"For cosmetic tank stretch material I like to use 18 gauge steel sheets," Kent said. "It is easy to work with but needs some trim work on the edges to give it some body. For this I used 1/8-inch round rod. I use the Tig welding process on tank stretch jobs with .035 or 70s-6 welding rod."

"For the top motor mount I like to use counter bored bungs to mount to the heads," Kent explained, "and a counter bored bung and a threaded bung to mount to the frame and different tubing designs to join them all together." The stock style motormounts with the slots are used in the event that studs are used in the heads. With this set up they use 3/8-inch Allen head fasteners for a cleaner look.

The Lucky Devil will keep us posted as the first Devil progresses.

--Bandit

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