1973 Twisted Up Knuckle Oregon Custom Chopper -4-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article

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1973 Twisted Up Knuckle Oregon Custom Chopper -4-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article
Original, Vintage Magazine article
Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page
Condition: Good
The California chopper has seen
more versions and grabbed more
hearts than the legend of the Lost
Dutchman mine. It has been more
places and pounded more pavement
cracks than all the others combined.
The California chopper has been good
to the custom bike buff, and he has
been good to it, evolving in it a very
ridable, very readable machine. Even
now in what appears to be the twilight
of its long popularity reign the Califor-
nia chopper profile can still get you
right where you live. It is justice that
the venerable Harley 61 -inch knuckle-
head and the California chopper be
honored by each other's company.
Romanticist Craig Germerouth of
Portland, although just a wisp of a
boy who can just barely remember the
advent of the chopper, felt that way
so he built this ode to the memory
of a great has been.
Actually, Craig did it in consort with
Jerry Funkhouser, a friend. Jerry built
the frame, replacing the downtubes
with twisted stock, and raked it about
’/2-inch. He also molded it, and he
built the sissy bar and some of the
twisted stock accessories to go with it.
Craig lucKed onto the old 1946
knuckle and had it rebuilt, polished
and chromed. He ordered all the parts
and did all the assembly and acces-...
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