If you’re a fan of Barnett’s Magazine Online, the names Bubba and Snellville just might fire off a neuron or two about another recent article where Bubba and his buddy Slim made Snellville proud with another traditional build that captured the hearts of millions worldwide. Now Bubba’s done it again, but this time he’s cast aside Slim for reasons unknown and replaced him with another Snellville buddy with a regular old name of Mark Green. Mark not only helped Bubba with the fabrication, build, and assembly, but he also did the nicely-tooled leather seat. Because of that intricately-laced leatherwork, I’m going to refer to Mark as “Stitchy” throughout the rest of this story as it’s more in keeping with the nickname theme (including my own).

Anyway, Bubba and Stitchy got to work around a Kraft/Tech Inc. hardtail frame sporting a Hayseed Cycles’ tradition of using a traditional Paughco springer when telescoping forks just won’t do. “Yup, the Paughco springer front end is in my opinion the best springer in the business,” said Bubba. “Stitchy and I just wanted to build something traditional and bad ass,” said Bubba. “The Paughco springer front end is in my opinion the best springer in the business.” I would never argue that (now) Paughco fact with a guy from Georgia named Bubba and especially one who has a friend (now) named Stitchy.

Bodywork is never easy to get right if you really want it right and this build was no different as Bubba said, “We took an 18-wheeler exhaust and made an oil bag out of it and that went well. Then Stitchy and I took a Fat Bob gas tank and axed it until we got the shape we wanted. We built three different gas tanks to put on it and built a few sets of bars before getting the pair I liked. Oh, and the sissy bar was a big pain in the ass to make. The rest of the build went pretty smooth, thank God.” I gotta admit I do miss the personalized sissy bars that were once as important a style-point to any self-deserving chopper as handlebars were to being able to actually ride.

The “rest of the build” included oh those little things like building up possibly one of the most under rated and overlooked, but damn near perfect chopper power plants, an 80” Harley-Davidson Evo engine. Good looks, great torque, OEM parts abundance, and aftermarket pieces up the wazoo for anything and everything your heart desires makes for a good, useful chopper engine in my book and it’s all available for the right price too. “We were going to do straight pipes, but decided to go a more traditional route and use kick-up style pipes,” said Bubba. Another engine piece that meant a lot to him personally was the little brass piece capping the carb. “I had to beg and plead to get a Hank Young air cleaner made,” he said.

When it came time for paint, Bubba went back to the endless paint well he always uses saying, “The paint was done by Shane Garr at Lucky Moto 7 who’s been my painter for years. I don’t even pick the paint, I just told him to paint the f***ing thing like I always do and he came up with the color scheme of the bike. The off-white paint is the same paint used on the Shelby Cobras in the ‘60s [Ford Wimbledon White I would imagine] and the orange is a House of Kolor metal flake. Needless to say, I’m a huge fan of metal flake. It’s nice working with someone who’s a real artist, someone who gets it.”

When it came time for the seat, there was only one person to turn to. “Stitchy? I just told him to cover the seat, give me something to sit on. He came up with a kick-ass seat as usual. Stitchy knows his leather,” said Bubba. “As far as the overall bike, how it turned out, I try to stay in the traditional era. Some people say bobber or Old School. I think those terms are too loosely used. To me, it rides great, feels good, and fits me like a glove. I think it looks good and that’s what really matters, but I hope everybody else likes it too. Especially anybody else who might like to buy it and remember, I’m easy to find as there’s only one Hayseed Cycles in Snellville.”