Sportsters Of The Bash (pt. 1)

The Bastard Bash is a party for the members of the Quad Cam Bastards forum (and friends) which is made up of folks who love custom/chopped Sportsters. To become a member of the forum you have to submit a picture of your bike and if approved you're in. You will not find a more innovative group of bike builders anywhere. Some of the work displayed on that board is beyond amazing. To get a good idea of this check out some of the bikes that made the party this year.

Some of these bikes have been in magazines and some should be.. If you love cool Sporties check out the QCB blog and if you own a cool Sporty apply to be a member of the forum. You won't regret it.

By the way, it's my Birthday today and what better B'day present than a ton of beautiful choppers to look at ;-)

The Bastard Bash is coming up in August.

Trying to get things together to make the trip to the Bastard Bash at Deal's Gap in August. I'm getting pretty excited and am ready to go except that I need to get my damn Sportster running first. If you haven't heard of the Quad Cam Bastards you need to check out the QCB Blog  It's basically a group of Sportster Chopping Bastards who decided to start having a gathering of forum members. It's started to grow and now pretty much anyone is invited. Come up for the fun and enjoy the party. You can get more info here. In the meantime here are some pics I took last year to get you in the right frame of mind.

Gotta love a motorcycle resort being taken over by a group of chopper freaks.

This bike came all the way from Canada to partake of the festivities.

It had already been removed by the time I took this, but when this bike arrived it had a keg mounted to the sissy bar with an old Sporty oil tank mounted on the side with the tap installed. This beer went QUICK!

Alvarez's bike from Florida.

Everyone broke up into groups and went riding to different places.

My good friend Hollie's bike from Ohio.

The bikes are starting to trickle back in and people are getting their drinking shirts on.

My Favorite Sportster of the BMR.....

Of course I'm a little biased since Buttas is a friend of mine. I first met him through the Quad Cam Bastards forum and we got to hang out for a bit at the Bastard Bash last year. Buttas is damn fine bike builder and has out done himself with this one. If I'm not mistaken they shot it for Cycle Source so keep your eyes peeled for a real feature on this bike. In the meantime check out my pics and do a little drooling.

Kick ass narrowed tank, with a custom filler, sight gauge and the QCB logo placed on it. This is the same tank I showed you in an earlier post.

I love that steamroller look with the 16" wheel and the springer fork. Of course those pipes are custom made

Just more beauty to gaze upon.

Good view of the pipes here as well as the super clean fender set up.

Good view of the floorboards. Everyone said he couldn't put those on a Sporty,but he did anyway and they look great with the fat front end. Basically Buttas RIDES this bike (He was in the middle of a ride from FL to VA and back toe FL) so he needed more space to move his feet around on the road. The shifter set up took some trial and error and a few redo's but it came out great.

You can see how the rear brake set up worked out AND the required cam cover chop since he IS a member of the Quad Cam Bastards. You can also see the mods to the sprocket cover, most guys try to get rid of it, but some of us want to keep the rear Master Cyl in that spot so a little creativity is in order.

Rat Fink taillight and vintage style toolbox. I think he's road ready.