Some bikes have absolutely no story or character, but this one has so much it could fill its own magazine. Just in the last 13 years of its existence it's lived more than most bikes ever will, and nobody knows how it even got here. At some point in time it was a stock '60s (or '70s; we're not sure) ironhead. Sometime in the mid-'70s it gained a Paughco rigid frame, and in the 1980s it got the very new wave purple paint job, which is how owner Sean Kinney found it.
Fast forward 13 years. The bike is still in the storage space, laying on its side in a pool of its own oil with broken instruments piled on top of it. Forgotten, and worst of all, still ugly.
Sean sent it over to Huff Motorsports-who had worked on his machinery for years-to get it back in working order. Uber-builder (and former drag race star) Steve Huff did what he could to keep the bike in its New Wave glory, fixing the old parts instead of buying new ones, but the trouble was the same as before: the bike was still too frickan' ugly. So it sat at Huff's, with the occasional joyride by Steve or one of his cronies, for most of Seattle's short riding season.
This is where the bike's latest chapter begins.
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