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ortunately, I’ve been around motorcycles my entire life. As far as styles go, I genuinely believe the type of bike on these pages is truly timeless. Whenever I see a clean chopper like this, I always note the little details, like the wiring. Is it routed nicely, are the connections done where they won’t cause a short or are the fork tubes scarred up from turning them in complete circles while sliding them up in the fork
trees? Things like this make the difference between a clean build and a sloppy build. Well, no one can ever say Bruce Puglia does a sloppy build for sure. Bruce is based out of North Reading, Massachusetts, and is the owner of this fine piece. He’s been building bikes since the mid-’70s, and he’s had a couple of features in other magazines along the way. This build actually started out the
exact opposite of how Bruce usually starts a project. It was already a complete bike sitting in a shop near his house called East Coast Customs. The previous owner had initially had the bike built by a now-defunct shop called Killer Choppers. However, the bike wouldn’t start for various reasons, so it sat at East Coast Customs for over 2 years until Bruce convinced the shop owner to sell it to him. Once the bike was his, he
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