Gasshole revisited

The Gasshole bike has been a blast to jam around on and it has been incredibly reliable to boot.  Well being reliable means being the last in line for attention.  That has been the case for this bike since I put it together a few years ago.  It finally got to the point that the tires were an issue.  So that was all the excuse I needed to put a little love into it.  One of the other Gasshole guys Chance Mcgiboney is putting a shovelhead together and he went with the Firestone S-3 tires like you see here.  Needless to say I liked the look and decided to give them a try.  While it was on the lift I used the opportunity for some maintenance and a coupe upgrades.  As far as the maintenance goes it got brake pads fork seals fork fluid change and all the wheel bearings repacked.  Once that was done I fixed a loose shift linkage problem by installing the Rivera roller bearing linkage bar.  Then dropped in a BDL belt primary and capped it with a cool drilled and vented outer primary to keep the belt temperature down and prevent premature failure.  Besides that it looks super cool.
I changed out the headlight and put on some new chain adjuster blocks.  So the look of the bike is slightly more aggressive with the all terrain tires but the spirit of the bike is not radically changed.  The tires give the bike a heavy almost sluggish feel.  Not nearly as agile as it was with the Dunlops, but it also glides over rough asphalt and potholes like an FL.  I will reserve final judgement on these tires until a have a hundred or so miles on them but I can say I like the look and in Choppertown you can take that to the bank.