Described as “blindingly fast,” the bike met the customer’s expectations, with the 280 rear tire giving the long bike a beefy looking rear end while the re-worked Jesse James tank and Tight Custom wheels some individuality.  The details of the bike can be read in the specifications, pretty much straight high end parts were used, including Mean Street’s new “Wicked” front forks.

I guess one lesson for bike builders out there who get pulled over on the street, as long as there are no guns involved, it never hurts to be polite and treat all interested parties as potential customers!

Builder

Ed Denzler has been building long, low, loud, big-engined choppers out of Las Cruces, New Mexico for over four years now.  His shop is open seven days a week but starts business at noon while he finishes off his 31 year career as an engineer with NASA or Honeywell or whoever it is over the mountain at White Sands Missile Range that asks him to spend his time doing something they’d have to kill me if they told me what it was.  So we’ll let it go at that.  Ed has a penchant for using Redneck frames but sits down with his customers and will build them as they like them as long as they’re safe.  He uses local painter Danny Bally and local seat maker Psycho Seat Co., both from El Paso, sixty miles away.  Hell, he even advertises with the only national motorcycle magazine published in El Paso, us.  Says something about his taste now doesn’t it? 

As all chopper makers and motorcycle shops are now expected to do, Ed offers some of his time to his local community with his “Young Thunder” program where he invites young people in to let them watch some of the assembly and fabrication processes at his store.  With all the TV coverage out nowadays, the profession of “chopper builder” has risen to probably about the top 50 in any high schooler’s mind. If proper polling could be done, I’m sure my statistics would be shown to be accurate.  For more info on Ed’s store, check out his website at www.cruceschoppers.com.

SPECIFICATIONS
Owner:	Justin Estes
Builder:	Ed Denzler, Cruces Choppers, 151 S. Walnut, Las Cruces, NM 505-523-4412 or www.cruceschoppers.com
Time to build:	five months
Frame:	Redneck Enginuity “Getting High” 8″ up, 4″ out
Forks:	Mean Street “Wicked”
Engine:	S&S 124″
Transmission:	Prowler Polished 6 speed
Primary:	BDL 3″ w/outboard bearing
280 Metzeler	Rear tire:
Wheels:	Tight Custom
Brakes:	PM
Hand Controls:	Accutronix Tribal
Foot Controls:	Accutronix Tribal
Sissy Bar:	Cruces Choppers
Fenders:	Cruces Choppers
Tank:	Cruces Choppers /Jesse James
Seat:	Psycho Seat Co.
Pipes:	MGS
Paint:	Danny Bally, El Paso