Building my dream

by Didier
(Pensacola)

sportster chopper

Hi All,

Since I am a teenager, I always dreamed of building a harley custom bike from the ground up. Never did it for all kind of reasons, time, money, other priorities and so on.

Last year, I have been diagnosed with Kidney cancer and had to have my kidney removed. The night before the surgery, I decide that I would "build my dream" if I would survive the surgery.

I bought a wrecked Sportster 1200 1993 as a donor bike and put the engine on a new frame, wheels, front end and so on.

The name of the bike is "Joie de vivre" which means joy of life in French. Very appropriate.

I still have some work to do on it but the bike is complete about 90%.

The picture above is my first ride on the bike.

It is far from being a professional built bike as it is my first build.

Let me know what you think!

Didier