Modified Harley - Black Beauty - more at amdworldchamps.com Among the younger builders operating in the market today one of the most prolific is Roland Sands, who during the World Championship of Custom Bike Building had four bikes entered in the show. His highest placed build was Black Beauty, the runner-up in the Modified Harley Class ROLAND Sands’ success as a custom builder may well be down to the fact that he is not afraid to experiment with bikes. He is one of a handful of professional builders that are as comfortable working on metric bikes as they are working on V-twins and this ideology can clearly be seen in the styling of Sands’ Black Beauty. Black Beauty is the one of two bikes he entered in the Modified Harley Class at the World Championship of Custom Bike Building and the second placed bike in the class. The rules of the class require that the frame used on any of the bikes was originally built by H-D but any modifications are allowed and so the crew at Roland Sands Design (RSD) simply took a hacksaw to the frame and removed everything from the back of the tank down to the swingarm pivot. Then for good measure the swingarm was binned too. The influence of the many metric bikes RSD has worked on can clearly be seen in the design of the replacement swingarm, a collaboration between RSD and Gregg’s Customs, a single-sided unit reminiscent of those used by the Ducati factory. However, in this case the original H-D shock location was re-used albeit with Progressive Suspension shocks. Once again Metric parts were utilized at the front of Black Beauty where a Suzuki GSR-X front end was bolted up. However, this was not left stock. The left side front brake mount was removed and a set of custom triple tress were added. As would be expected the wheels used in the build came from the Performance Machine catalog and are a set of Assault wheels; 21in at the front and an 18in at the rear. Unsurprisingly, the brakes too came from PM with a radial mount four-piston fitted at the front and a regular four-piston on the rear. As with the frame restrictions, the engines cases have to be by Harley but the rest is open to any change. And it is at this point that Roland’s racing background becomes apparent. The stock cases have been kept but to them have been added performance heads, cylinders, pistons, valves and cam by Küryakyn. Induction is taken care of by a Mikuni carb and spent gases exit by a RSD Tracker exhaust. The engine was then blacked out before being detailed with gold anodized covers from the RSD catalog. More PM parts can be found in the transmission with the use of one of the company’s open primary drives, which takes the engine’s output to the stock H-D gearbox. While on the other side of the motor, a full set of RSD Vintage line covers, finished in a gold anodizing, have been fitted. Further RSD production parts used in the build include the rearset foot controls, motor mount and taillight, while PM provided the Contour hand controls. Black Beauty is finished with a gas tank built in the RSD workshop and painted by regular painter Chris Wood of Airtrix, a prototype beehive oil tank, mounted in front of the engine, and a seat by Bitchin’ Rich. With this bike Roland Sands has shown what it is possible to do using a stock bike as the basis of a build and using a little imagination. If the stock engine was retained then a bike like this could be built for a relatively small budget, offering an entry into the world of Customs without having to do a ground-up build. ROLAND SANDS DESIGN La Palma, California, USA Tel: 714 228 8481 Fax: 714 228 8468 E-mail: [email protected] www.rolandsands.com
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