DEPARTMENTS

4 SPLITTIN' THE LANES

C. R. B. returns from the past. . .

6 FALSE NEUTRAL

A short dissertation on one of man's most ghastly woes. ..

8 MAILBOX

Have your entry delivered by an agent of the

U.S. Government

10 CHOPPING BLOCK

"... Will a quadruple-row drive chain solve

my problem?”

12 NEW PRODUCTS

Good news for all you capitalistic money mongers

SPECIAL FEATURE

24 FREEWAY SURVIVAL

Stay alive! (Ford might need you in the next war. . .)

TECH STUFF

32 MORGO'S HOT-ROD OIL PUMP

or, "How To Keep Your Triumph Alive and Leaking”

40 BUILDING ASTROKER ENGINE

Stroke, one, two, three. . . Stroke, one, two, three. . .

FEATURE BIKES

20 SCARBER'S SHUTTLE

86 inches and a lot of flames

28 EAGLE'S EAGLE

. . . where Hondas fear to tread

36 BLACK WIDOW TRIKE

Beats a 45 any day. . . BOOM PH

44 A WET GOOSE

We were gonna run a Rat Bike, but some fool

washed it and it melted. . .

PRODUCT EVALUATIONS

18 M.M.A.'sTINY TACH

Bleep . . . You're in the red zone. . . Bleep

34 THE DUALOCK CYCLE ALARM

A low-bucks, low-efficiency alarm system

48 HYDRON FOG-FREE GOGGLES

Keep yer foggin' eyes on the road

Joe Scarber, of Scarber's

Custom Cycle, Canoga Park,

California, profiling nicely in

front of an elderly mission.

Scarber, it must be noted, profiles

quietly — if an 86-inch 'bob does

anything quietly. Photo taken

while stomping black widows and

screaming a lot, by Regis "Deep

Grass" Moore.

Most chopper shop owners tend

to go through bikes the way Sly

Stone goes through noses.

Joe Scarber, owner and

operator of Scarber’s Custom

Cycle, Canoga Park, California, is

no exception.

His current fatbob was built

about a year or so ago, and at the

time was the epitome of

everything Scarber wanted on a

bike.

Naturally, the bike was ridden

for a bit, and then sold.

It started as a ’59 swingarm

dresser. Step one was stripping

everything down. The old frame

was used for a lampstand, and a

1967 frame was picked up.

The rear swingarm and shocks

got junked, and a hardtail was

added to the bike. This gives the

frame almost the appearance of a

’55-’57 straight-leg frame, that

super-rarity of custom items.

A flat fender and fatbob tanks

were added to the pile, and the

whole shot trucked off to

Creations in Color for (what else?)

color. They also did a clean-up

mold before the gloss black paint

job went in place. The purple

flames (gaak) were added after

Scarber sold the bike to a friend.

All parts for plating went to

Lustrechrome, one of the

long-time bike plating shops in the

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