Spoon: A Chopper Profile
Precious Metal Customs, formed in 1998, builds only radical machines, like the Spoon chopper, with most pieces being custom-made. For instance, whereas most manufacturers buy frames and sheetmetal off the shelf, PMC creates its own.
Motorcycle Image GalleryThe Spoon rides a hardtail chassis carrying a 100-cubic-inch Harley-Davidson engine fitted with Rev Tech internal hardware. Among the bike's unusual features is a rearview camera and video screen that substitute for rearview mirrors -- eliminating their often tacked-on look -- while allowing the rider a clear view of what he's leaving behind.
Check out the next page for more photos and details of the Spoon chopper.
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- Year: 2005
- Class: Radical
- Owner: Russ Austin
- Builder: Precious Metal Customs
- Model: Spoon
- Frame: PMC, 5 up, 6 out
- Forks: Mean Street, inverted 20 inches over
- Rake: 50 degrees
- Rear susp.: Hardtail
- Front wheel: Xtreme Machine, 21-inch
- Front brake: Hawg Halter, disc
- Rear wheel: Xtreme Machine, 18-inch
- Rear brake: Hawg Halter, disc
- Rear tire: 300 mm
- Engine: 100-cubic-inch Harley-Davidson
- Exhaust: Wicked Bros.
- Trans.: Baker 6-speed
- Paint by: Flashback
Spoon Chopper Pictures
The Spoon is a true custom motorcycle with a Harley-Davidson engine and a rearview video camera. Below are more pictures and details of this unusual chopper.
Wicked Bros. exhaust pipes join in an unusual side-by-side design. A spire matching those used on footpegs and control pedals tops the air cleaner.
The image from the rearview camera is displayed on a video screen frenched into the top of the fuel tank.
Machined accents -- many quite elaborate -- dress the cylinders, primary-drive cover, and frame downtube.
Spire-topped footpegs and control pedals follow a theme carried throughout the bike.
For more information on custom choppers and motorcycles, see:- Chopper Profiles
- How Choppers Work
- How Motorcycles Work
- Classic Motorcycle Profiles