Today’s feature bike comes from the fertile mind of Scott Fuchs AKA Scott Foxx out of Capone’s Street Rod Motorcycles in Shelbyville, Indiana. For comparison’s sake, here’s the link (Click here my friends) to our other Smoke Out dual-drive bobber we showcased a couple days ago. Both of these bobbers have a rare take on final drive probably just because the builders can that involves quite a bit of imagination, research, and hard work to come up with a rideable solution. Obviously Capone’s is something strictly for the show circuit (in my opinion), while the other dual-drive is a Smoke Out rider.

 Both have the same basic approach with a crossover gear powering both rear sprockets after getting its power directly (and very shortly) from the countershaft sprocket. In Capone’s case, I think I’d have to start at the gigundous rear sprocket and work backwards with a gearing chart to figure out what’s going on. That’s gotta be the biggest rear sprocket I’ve ever seen on any bike ever. I was actually kinda surprised that Capone’s bike with a perimeter sprocket on each side didn’t take it a step further and incorporate a set of perimeter sprocket brakes too. Instead, Scott snuck in a crossover/countershaft sprocket brake on the left side and that was that. Somehow I doubt that the hand-shifted 113-inch Panhead engine has been angrily run through the gears as stopping power would be at, well, let’s just say bailing out in an emergency stop would be a considered option and I never bail out. But, hey, this is an award-winning show bike through and through and a pretty one at that. If you were actually riding this bike on the street, I think your feet might spend as much time flatfooted on the ground (probably Main Street Daytona) as well on the pegs. Strangely, it’s an engineering bike that’s meant to be looked at more than ridden. The Smoke Out bike is a bit of both but it does have a regular old license plate on it, mirror, and even tiny rear turn signals so I can only assume the owner rides this first and foremost.

  Don’t take this cheap comparison of bikes and builders on my part to be anything other than subjective. Capone’s did a bang up job of building an eye-catching show bike with lots of neat features and a show-quality finish to match. Oh you know stuff like that billet hand lever/roller kickstand or the twin oil/tanks with visio-sight tubes and yards of copper tubing delivering product. Or, that slightly-beyond first class paint job with an light aqua blue hue straight off a late ‘90s street rod. It looks much better than on any street rod (in my opinion) as there’s not the sheer excess panel size along with painted bumpers and grills of older street rods. Same for the rest of the bike from the seat to the chrome to whatever. Just more money and time spent.

  The Capone bike is fun to check out for engineering details and to look at up close and from afar. I just don’t think it was meant to hit the streets and that’s okay. For me, I’ll go with the Smoke Out guy’s Sportster as bikes are meant to be ridden. Even if it’s not too much or too far, it’s got to be a rider for me. Which one do you like best?