Pat’s been a banging away at custom bikes and modified Harleys ever since he started working on his first Harley at the tender age of twelve so after all those years, making a cool custom for his bro was not the biggest deal, but it still took him a year to complete from start to finish. Possibly some of the reasons were that besides being a total ground-up build with a ton of hand fabricated bodywork and a high-performance engine Pat basically built from scratch, there’s a hell of a lot of money sunk into this bike. Everything on this bike qualifies as a premium part and that means expensive to you and me.

A choice Rolling Thunder frame with a mild 38-degree rake became the basis of this build. Premium Perse triple trees hold Arlen Ness’s legs (so to speak) with Performance Machine’s wheels and brakes fore and aft. You know Pat actually likes his brother as he didn’t saddle him with a pain-in-the-ass-to-actually-ride fat rear tire, just a nice 200mm Avon, thank you. Performance Machine must love Pat and Tim too as they were also called on to supply all the hand and foot controls. I bet PM’s credit card machine is still giving off some smoke after all those pricey purchases.

As I mentioned earlier, Pat built the engine from arts and pieces, but not just shop junk. He began with a set of S&S cases, S&S crank and Ross Racing pistons to which he added a choice set of Patrick Racing’s cylinders and heads. Nice stuff. Crane supplied the Fireball cam and Hi 4 ignition while Pat hung a 44mm Mikuni of the right side breathing through a forward-facing velocity stack. The curvy exhaust might look familiar to Martin Bros fans as that’s exactly what it is. The tidy wet primary transfers the 113” engine’s 110rwhp to a 6-speed BAKER tranny that spins a rider-friendly rear belt drive.

A big part of Pat’s expertise in the bikes we featured previously online and in Barnet’s Magazine has been in bending sheet metal and Tim’s ride is no different. Clean and flowing bodywork is the mark of a craftsman and Pat nailed it on this pro street. JT’s Custom Paint Garage in Monrovia, New York, (www.badbaran.com ) fired up the spray gun and shot the tin with a layer of PT Cruiser blue while Mark Osmund did the graphics. “Tim wanted a blue bike and I took it from there. We used some pictures from his camp at Sandy Pond on Lake Ontario for the murals,” said Pat. Pretty cool stuff, although it appears that Sandy Pond sure gets a lot of lightning storms if the paint is telling the truth.

With the build done, you’d think Tim would have to be putting in a lot more “thank-you-bro time at the shop, but he’s been pretty busy with his new ride. Already there’s over 5,000 miles that have racked up on the Dakota Digital’s odometer that’s also part of the risers, so I gotta be guessing that Tim’s not only satisfied with his bro-built bike, but it’s a good excuse to get away from all those shop chores he used to do. Pat’s got another explanation, “Being a pro street that handles very well and with great brakes, it is all usable horsepower. It’s very fast and it’s very reliable.” Pat also answered my question about what type of riding the bike is put to with a simple two-word answer, “Bar hopping.” Let’s see, 5,000 mostly bar-hopping miles? That’s not only a whole hell of a lot of miles for a ground-up, fast custom, but a whole lot of bar hopping. Well at least Pat knows where his bro is when he’s MIA from the shop. Now that’s probably a good excuse for Pat to just to go spend some bro time with Tim and maybe get a little riding in too. Yeah, that’s the ticket.