Ice Pick: A 1973 Penton ready for the snow
Mention of a themed custom motorcycle conjures visions of bad reality TV choppers, and sends us into convulsions. But this scrambler is a theme bike with a big difference: It’s so tastefully executed, we didn’t realize there was a theme. Until builder Chris Tope revealed the story behind it.
Chris was asked by motorcycle photographer Michael Lichter to build a bike for his ‘What’s the Skinny’ exhibition at the Sturgis rally. Chris already had a suitable and very skinny donor to hand?a beat-up 1973 Penton Mudlark outside of Dallas, Texas. He’d been eyeing it for years, and now it was finally time to pull the trigger.
Chris had a very specific style in mind too, dubbing his project the ‘Ice Pick.’ ?I had previously built a surfboard bike, a café racer, and a desert sled bike,? he explains, ?so I decided to build a bike that was meant for the cold. It?s the first of my builds designed to be ridden on ice.? ?Every aspect and design of the Ice Pick was to make you feel her cold appearance?from the iridescent paint, to the studded tires, to the super sharp rear cowl made to look like an ice pick.?
Never heard of the Penton Mudlark" We don’t blame you?it’s an extremely rare motorcycle. Bike-curious has a great story about its development, but basically it was a 190 pound trials bike with a 123 cc Sachs motor.
Only Penton didn’t actually manufacture them?that was outsourced to a British firm, Wassell. The...
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