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Spoon: A Chopper Profile

By: the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide

With even its frame built from scratch, the Spoon chopper is truly a custom motorcycle. See more motorcycle pictures.
With even its frame built from scratch, the Spoonchopper is truly a custom motorcycle.See more motorcycle pictures.

Precious Metal Customs, formed in 1998, builds only radical machines, like the Spoon chopper, with most pieces being custom-made. For instance, whereas most manufacturers buy frames and sheetmetal off the shelf, PMC creates its own.

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The Spoon rides a hardtail chassis carrying a 100-cubic-inch Harley-Davidson engine fitted with Rev Tech internal hardware. Among the bike's unusual features is a rearview camera and video screen that substitute for rearview mirrors -- eliminating their often tacked-on look -- while allowing the rider a clear view of what he's leaving behind.

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Check out the next page for more photos and details of the Spoon chopper.

For more information on custom choppers and motorcycles, see:

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Internal machining on the rear sprocket matches the design of the rear wheel. Red chain and axle cover put a colorful finishing touch on pieces that normally detract from the overall look.
Internal machining on the rear sprocket matches thedesign of the rear wheel. Red chain and axle coverput a colorful finishing touch on pieces thatnormally detract from the overall look.

The Spoon is a true custom motorcycle with a Harley-Davidson engine and a rearview video camera. Below are more pictures and details of this unusual chopper.

Wicked Bros. exhaust pipes join in an unusual side-by-side design. A spire matching those used on footpegs and control pedals tops the air cleaner.
Wicked Bros. exhaust pipes join in an unusualside-by-side design. A spire matching thoseused on footpegs and control pedalstops the air cleaner.
The image from the rearview camera is displayed on a video screen frenched into the top of the fuel tank.
The image from the rearview camera is displayedon a video screen frenched into the top of the fuel tank.

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Machined accents -- many quite elaborate -- dress the cylinders, primary-drive cover, and frame downtube.
Machined accents -- many quite elaborate -- dress thecylinders, primary-drive cover, and frame downtube.

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Spire-topped footpegs and control pedals follow a theme carried throughout the bike.
Spire-topped footpegs and control pedalsfollow a theme carried throughout the bike.

For more information on custom choppers and motorcycles, see:

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