Written by Andrew Jones
?I grew up in Montana fixing cars and rebuilding engines with my brothers,? reminisces Idaho’s Jon MacDowell, owner of Idaho Falls? Bonneville Customs. ?I have been building custom motorcycles for 8 years. I started out building bikes with my Father-in-law and some friends in a small shop, which grew into what Bonneville Customs is today.? Impressively, ?BC? is an after-hours concern where friends and family get together and build custom motorcycles for themselves. ?We?ve built a number of bikes now that have won awards all across the country.? And with bikes like this ?41 Indian Scout coming out of their doors, who’d doubt it"

?The motorcycle is essentially a custom bobber that I made into a race-style bike with rear sets and some dropped handlebars. The engine and tranny are from a 1941 Indian 741 Scout.? He calls the bike ?The Flying Squirrel?, although we can’t recall any squirrels – flying or otherwise – that have pressed our buttons quite this much.
?I bought a basket case engine and tranny from eBay. There were a lot of parts missing that I had to pick up from all over the world to complete it. The wheels are from Black Bike Wheels and the rest of the bike I basically designed and fabricated in the shop.?

?I?m really into vintage bikes and the looks of the older parts – the way they were cast and the way they look more ?mechanical?. My inspiration for this build was to create something that was ...