Plus it’s the nicest paint I’ve ever had on a bike! I decided to add some brass accents here and there just for a little extra detail.” Even though there are newer parts on the bike, he thinks it has lots of cool old parts, and overall it has a traditional bobber look. I love the wild paint, flake, ’60s and ’70s styles, but personally I can never get tired of how it turned out. Sean knew all along that he wanted an all-gloss black chopper with chrome: “I feel that it’s classic and timeless. He really kept on budget, with the main expenses being paint and some of the nice chrome parts. Sean didn’t want the price to get insane. This bike was intended to be a rider, not a trailer queen that sometimes gets out of the garage for a Starbucks run. Only the motor and transmission made it to the new incarnation. With the motor’s clean bill of health approved by the shop, Sean subtracted the old parts from the equation, sold them on eBay, and used the proceeds to secure the replacements he needed. Not much was needed, which is exactly what you want to hear a shop say. Its motor ran plenty strong, but he had the guys at Deluxe Motor Shop take a look and tighten it up to make sure it was good to go. When December dropped the usual snow all around, Sean rolled up his sleeves and got down to business tearing into his chopper. No, translating his mind’s eye into a real chopper didn’t take place until 2010. “I had been riding the bike in its previous form for a while and decided it was time to build it with the vision in mind.” “I had the idea in my head for this bike for a long time,” he said. When Sean got his mitts on the chicken, he wasted no time skinning it. “It was, however, a strong-running Panhead, so I was not complaining.” Why would anyone complain about that? A strong Pan in the hand is worth two in the junkyard. Needless to say it didn’t stay that way for very long,” Sean Gallagher said. “I first found the bike as an ugly ’80s-style running bike that we named the “Screamin’ Chicken” due to the bad paint job on the tank.
Mish-mashing a bunch of parts that would’ve gone great separately in other projects, then laying on a butt-ugly paint scheme is the carpool lane to a bad nickname, like, say, “Screamin’ Chicken.” That’s how the story on this 1950 Panhead got started. When someone commits the cardinal sin of a bad custom job to a classic motorcycle, it usually falls to someone else to atone for it.
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