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The turn of the century didn't start well for us. While driving my friend's W-900 Kenworth, a tie-rod end broke off! The good Lord protects me and I survive, but I break the tendons to my right bicep. And I'm right-handed. Several days later, I come back to the shop, and my partner tells me he's selling his equipment and moving to Florida. The shop closes—I put all my tools and machines into storage. Six months of physical therapy follow. Upon returning to the working world, I get a Teamster job driving a big rig, and two more years pass...
One day, my friend Mike Somma from Hudson County Custom Cycles in New Jersey told me he'd rent me a corner in his new building if I'd take care of top ends for him. I decided to get back into doing machine work, but dedicating myself to specializing in Harley top ends.
The day I finished setting up my equipment I called Indian Larry at Gasoline Alley NYC to let him we were up and running Prior to falling off the radar for a few years, I had been doing Larry's heads and cylinders for many years. We were always good friends and had a great professional relationship. We were a match made in Harley Heaven. No one could build a better bottom end than he did, and to this day, I will still put my top ends up against anyone else's. Anyway, in 2003, if you watched the Great Biker Build-Off series on The Discovery Channel, you saw Indian Larry's winning "Rat Fink" bike in Episode 3. It was a '60s style panhead built as a tribute to famous custom builder, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. I did the heads on that bike, as well as on all of his other motorcycles, including the "Grease Monkey.")
Anyway, I couldn't give up my Teamster benefits and retirement, plus I love driving big trucks. In order to spend more time doing head work, I got the trucking outfit to change my hours so that I could spend more time in the shop—10:00am till 3:00pm during the week and 10:00am till 5:00pm on Saturdays.
...and so in 2003, "HORSE HEADS" was (re)born!
Sincerely,
Frank Romero
Crazy Horse Speed Shop
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