PROJECT BIKE
We named the bike "Tommy" after the Who's
rock opera, because It leaves everybody who
sees it deaf , dumb and blind.
By Mark Hoyer
Photos by Paul Carruthers
. t's got the flash of a just-detonated
nuclear bomb. It so unds like one,
too. And while it d id n't take quite
/ as long to build or quite as much
.-. research as the first nuk e, it was
close.
Meet the Royal Star Project.
Attentive readers will remember the
first phase of our Royal Star project bike
(Issue #31, August 7, 1996). It was a fairly straightforward (if expensive) bolt-on
project that d ressed up the bike d ramati-
The Pro-One bodywork ext ends the
look of the bike dramatically, while lowprofile Dunlop Sportmax lis and
Hallcraft's aD-spoke 17-lnch wheels
help make the bike look low .
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ca lly, b u t left it fu nda men tally
unchange d - no motor mod s, stock
w heels, stock paint. Aside from the
windshield and countless chrome knickknacks, the wi ldest we got was bolti ng
on some Vance & Hines pipes.
This time, thin~s were diffe re nt.
Using the same bike, we followed what
we thought would be the natural progression for the well-heeled owner of a
cruiser-type bike. After the first round
of relatively tame changes, we returned
