King Rat

Yes, that's the original King Rat, still has the four inch tire on it. The design on the front of the fairing is after it was repair. In a match race against Boris at Portland, OR there was a large dip about the 1000 ft mark and the bikes would get the front end in the air right about there and on one run mine got pretty high and when it came down the forks collapsed far enough that the front tire took out that part of the fairing. Boris and I were on the road touring and when I got it back from Wixom Fairings they had put that design on there, it use to say Wixom Fairings and Harley Davidson.

The feel when driving a Dragster

Hey Frankie,
I hope you don't think I was criticizing, picking or anything like that about the name on your bike, don’t forget all my bikes were King Rat’s and you know where that came from. About the driving part, the first thing I notice was the vibration, there was a bunch of that, and the steering was hard even going down the track, there was no noise at all except for the vibration sound. When I missed the gear and the other dragster went buy I heard that. The one thing that I forgot to mention was during the talk on how to drive the car, he said the brakes aren’t to good get the chute out right away, by the time I remember about the chute I was going so slow the chute just fell out on the ground. I got a lot of ribbing about that at Fontana Drags for quite awhile. And I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket with the lid on it.