Ethan Bond of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, wanted a bike for his wife Erin. Or maybe it was just that Erin wanted her own bike, a “cooler bike” than Ethan’s. So the Bonds turned to Performance Cycles to build Attention Deficit 82, a sister bike to Ethans’s Attention Deficit 76, which is a supercharged, intercooler, nitrous injected V-Rod previously featured in Barnett’s Magazine.
Erin said, I wanted this bike designed as a partner bike to my husband’s, only cooler — because it’s black and you don’t get cooler than black. I picked it up for under $5K as a red and chrome VRSCD. Joe stripped it down and powdercoated everything that could be done powder black and sent the tins off to Wizard Graphics to have a similar paint to 76.”
Erin’s favorite part of her bike, she said, is “the 60hp dual bottle Nitrous system of course! And the sound from the CFR pipes. Having learned from past expensive lessons, we kept this conversion as simple as we could. This avoided major problems.”
Erin says the bike rides “Great. My husband constantly jealous of the comfy seat and highway pegs when we are on long rides. The seat is faux snakeskin and looks great — with the heart shaped horn cover it gives it a nice girly touch. We do a lot of weekend cruising and the occasional trip down the drag strip. Most days we ride during the summer — until my leg ended up in a pot following on from surgery. Grrr.”
This isn’t Erin’s first bike. “This is the second bike I have owned. The first was an 883 Sportster. This wins hands down,” she said.
After this successful build, Erin is ready to move on to another. “I’ll definitely build another, but the jury is still out on what it will be.” Well Erin, we’re giving you an 11 on the cool factor. Keep us posted on your next build.
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