Engineered to Slide Harley Street 750

Sometimes you get the decision. You spend all of your free time in your yard or storage, largely for the love of it, after which one of many huge guys notices what you’ve been as much as. Harley-Davidson Australia seen Nigel Petrie. They referred to as to ask him to have some enjoyable on their dime, and that he did.

Nigel is the thoughts behind Engineered To Slide, a customized auto and motorbike storage from Down Beneath. He’s been headdown and neck-deep in initiatives of all kinds since 2010. As a builder, Nigel is at all times difficult himself from one mission to the subsequent, whether or not it’s a drifting Toyota pickup, a landspeed KTM, or this Harley-Davidson hillclimber.

After some historic and technical analysis, he set to work reworking a bone-stock Road 750 into the fashionable hill climber Harley-Davidson was asking for. With a truncated timeline of solely three weeks, the stress was on. Fortunately for Nigel, working underneath stress is nothing new.

“This was my first main endeavor for a big-name producer,” Nigel says. “Engaged on a model new bike and on another person’s finances gave me the liberty to do numerous issues I wouldn’t have usually performed myself. It additionally gave me a style of the true world: having a deadline, assembly others’ expectations and pushing the bounds to satisfy all the factors.”

Although the Road 750 is a motorcycle constructed for the pavement and fairly vanilla off the ground, Nigel was capable of give the road-going middleweight new work as a gravel-heaving hill climber. We now have no clue what to anticipate from this maverick Aussie subsequent, however you possibly can wager it received’t go unnoticed.

This text first appeared in difficulty 024 of Iron & Air Magazine, and is reproduced right here underneath license.

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