Snow Blower

WITH COMPONENTS INCLUDING TRASK TURBO, SCREAMIN’ EAGLE, MANLY & WISECO

There are Harley-Davidson owners. And there are Harley-Davidson riders. And some Harley-Davidson riders like speed, while others are more concerned about doing big kilometres. And if you mix all four together, you find a bloke like Snow. Although they are very rare.

You see folks, the bike you see on these pages had clocked up some 283,000 hard and fast kilometres when I shot it back in January. And only Snow knows what the odometer might read by now. Snow bought the bike, a FXSTDI, from Harbour City Harley-Davidson in Gladstone back in 2001 and when he reached the 20,000kms mark on the clock, had it converted from 88 to 95 cubes.

In 2003, and here I’ll quote Snow, “I took the Bike back to America to see its Mum and Dad on the 100th Anniversary Homecoming Tour run by HEAVY DUTY and led by Doc Robinson. It was a great trip, with not a bad day to be had in the seven weeks we were over there, during which we travelled 17,000kms around America, passing through 23 States.”

Then at 120,000kms Snow fitted a 250 Heartland swing-arm and Legend Air Suspensions rear shockers with help from a good friend, Peter Catasti, and at 170,000kms (a lazy 50,000kms later) sent it for Custom Paint Work by leading Aussie bike painter Hans Kreuzen at The Paint Doctor in Maryborough Queensland. And what an exceptionally sweet job Hans did, illustrating Snow’s vision to perfection.

Around that time Snow and Peter fitted a Trask Turbo Kit that extracted 120.77 rear wheel ponies and 130.16ft/lbs torque from the engine’s 95 cubes. Impressive numbers indeed. But it wasn’t all beer and skittles and exultant high fives along the way, because after 46000kms the turbo wore out.