<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nOn the handling side, suspension duty falls entirely on a set of 29-inch girder-style front forks. No rear shocks were harmed in the making of this motorcycle. When you\u2019ve gone through all the effort it took to get the aluminum frame built right, hiding it in any way would be almost criminal. The wheels weren\u2019t as involved as the frame but they got their fair share of fabrication work, too. The shop covered their spokes in metal for the solid look (which works damn well on this bike). Shod in skinny Firestone rubber, they rely on Kustom Tech brake systems for stopping power.<\/p>\n
Solid wheels are something I\u2019m used to seeing on Harley\u2019s meaty Fat Boy but here, the solids serve to contrast and balance out the smallish gas tank and minimal tailsection instead of complementing a large tank and inverted frontend like they do on the Fatty.<\/p>\n
Now, you\u2019d think that a motorcycle shop commemorating its 20th birthday might go hog wild in the paint department. In this case, though, not so much. If your focus is on ambitious fabrication with tons of details and cleanliness, flashy bright paint may not be the best way to finish off your bike. That\u2019s probably why Custom Works Zon let the metalwork speak for itself by eschewing colorization. Instead, they used strategically placed engraving and pinstriping, and bare metal to tell the story.<\/p>\n
If the first two decades culminated in this masterwork of the bike builder\u2019s craft, we can\u2019t wait to see what the future holds. As Yuichi Yoshizawa puts it, \u201cFrom now on, I would like to always look ahead and take on new challenges. As the Coronavirus is coming to an end, I would like everyone overseas to see my custom this year. I have a lot of things I want to do. I would like to do a custom with a Henderson airplane engine, a very old Japanese Kyokutou engine, and a Matsuda CT1200 V-engine.\u201d And hopefully you\u2019ll get to see some of these customs in this here magazine.<\/p>\nPhotos: Hiro Mitsu Yasui; Story: Mark Masker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aluminum isn’t new. Neither are Shovelheads. Taking an old Shovel powerplant and cradling it in an aluminum frame, though, that’s a pretty big deal. It’s also the story of what was once a ’73 Harley FLH, and what is now an extremely beautiful Shovelhead custom centered around an aluminum frame. Built by Custom Works Zon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5043,5041],"tags":[6137,2921,5251,13,314,547],"motorcycle_parts":[],"motorcycle_models":[],"motorcycle_builders":[6136],"motorcycle_gear":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110838,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110805\/revisions\/110838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110805"},{"taxonomy":"motorcycle_parts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/motorcycle_parts?post=110805"},{"taxonomy":"motorcycle_models","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/motorcycle_models?post=110805"},{"taxonomy":"motorcycle_builders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/motorcycle_builders?post=110805"},{"taxonomy":"motorcycle_gear","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotbike.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/motorcycle_gear?post=110805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}