A FAMILY AFFAIR

With everybody having their own bikes and projects, this is truly a family affair.

- David Cohen

We’ve covered a number of Harley-owning father and son combinations over the years in HEAVY DUTY, but when Mark ‘Duckee’ Duckworth told me that all three of his sons were Harley riders and that he’d even bought a Sportster for his wife, it was a feature story in the making.

Before we headed out for a series of photo shoots I sat down in his garage with Mark, Josh, Nathan and Blake to get the story on some of their machines.“It’s a family affair, Mark.” I began, “Tell us about it?”

“We’re a very close-knit family, sports orientated and love spending time together,” he began. “Harleys are our latest passion – one that we have been into for six or seven years now. I first got into them and the boys followed. Josh is the oldest, Nathan the middle and Blake is the youngest.”

From there we started discussing the bikes.

Mark’s pride and joy is a stunning blue 2014 CVO Breakout. It was his first Harley and, “The one that you say that you are never going to sell, it will be handed down to my boys.”

The stock CVO arrived with a Stage 4 motor and he notes with a wry grin, “It was really quick to start with. But then I wanted to get things moving a bit quicker.”

The first of numerous improvements involved installing high compression pistons, then the heads were re-worked by Rams Head Service in Sydney, a .625-lift cam fitted, along with a 30-tooth pulley, a 58mm throttle body and Bassani turn-out pipes. “I really like sound of Bassani pipes,” he added. “I think they’re the best sounding pipes out of all of them