I get the feeling that Max has an itch that only he can scratch by looking at his work. The amount of thought and work that goes into any piece he makes in any bike he makes is incomprehensible to me. The even more amazing thing to me is that he’s somehow inhumanly capable of not spending ten years building a bike of this rather complicated nature by fabricating and each and every piece until he’s got exactly what he sees in his head. Or maybe he’s figured out how to waive the requirements of time as we know it. He is Hazan Motorworks and doesn’t have a bunch of help other than what he can accomplish strictly on his own. I’m not saying he doesn’t have friends in the biz (or in general) or the right people he can talk to if he’s working something out, just that he kinda dances to his own music and wouldn’t have it any other way.
By now you’ve had to check out Mr. Cofano’s photo gallery and you can begin to grasp what Hazan Motorworks is all about. Blow up those photos and you should start to get a bit light headed at the absolutely unnecessary, but absolutely extraordinary detailing that goes into a build like this supercharged Ironhead. Check out the action of the throttle linkage or the ridiculously cool kick starter setup and tell me he’s just another builder. He creates beautiful solutions to problems we never knew existed, at least in the dimension we live in.
There’s not a line out of place or something that could have been worked out better if he spent just a little more time. Most people would probably beg to differ and point out the seat made of wood would be uncomfortable and they would be right in their own way, but totally miss the point of this whole exercise in metals. Yeah this bike is a real runner like all of Max’s creations, but this bike was never intended for a run to Sturgis in August with a bunch of friends. It’s pure freakin’ art that happens to have another side most art doesn’t because it’s got a damn beautiful supercharged Ironhead engine that could move itself to the next gallery if it had to.
Oh I could bore you to death with my wonderful insights on Max’s build, but, for once anyway, I’m left speechless and incapable of doing much other than staring at pictures and videos. Go to Max’s web site http://hazanmotorworks.com/ and visit his Facebook page to see all the amazing details of this build along with many, many videos showing it from start to finish. If you’re not on Facebook for any multitude of good reasons, this would be a good excuse to sign up, read his page, and then delete your account.