Nightmare On Elm Street Motorcycle

AFTER finishing hotting-up Steve’s Dyna Low Rider, he said to me why don’t we build a show-bike? Yeah, sounds great, said I. To make it easy for me, the idea was that I build it as I liked so I drew from my early days as young fella, reading mags like Easy Rider, Street Chopper, Hot Bike, Hot Rod Bikes, Supercycle and Ozbike (earliest issue No 8). As we had to start from the ground up, a project bike was purchased from a parts house.

Thinking of making things look cleaner, we went with a pulley brake, internal throttle, starter motor plunger, remote start keypad, slipper clutch belt drive, proportioning valve brakes.

The paint job—what a nightmare! Thanks to the internet for the odd image I could dig up and the guys at MPR in Melbourne. 

I had seen the Kuryakyn Infinity Streamliner on a German YouTube video; it looked different so I grabbed one.

I have always liked hand-shifts, but a rod-operated foot pedal on a custom bike has always a pain so on went a hydraulic unit. The hand-shifter didn’t come with the knob in the advert, but the shop it came from put me onto the people who made the lever; they then sent the wrong knob; their invoice did have the right item description on it so I followed that up and found the right knob. From one side of the USA to the other and over here. 

The idea for the image on the seat came from the movie, in the scene where the girl is in the bath and Freddie’s hand comes up between her legs (a nice touch).

Thanks go to Steve, MPR, Event Screenprinting, J&P Cycles USA, Raleigh, Callum for the pics, various parts houses and all others that put up with me while putting it together.

words by Foz at Fozzy’s Speed Shop; photos by Callum