As the dust settles on 4th of July celebrations in America, we thought this Evel Knievel tribute Harley-Davidson Street 750 by Number 8 Wire Motorcycles would be the perfect hangover cure. Almost a year ago to the day, thousands watched around the world as Travis Pastrana jumped over the water fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas as a tribute to Evel Kneivel ? Evel unfortunately never landed it and the jump almost killed him. Unlike Evel, Travis nailed the jump and made it look easy on his Indian Scout FTR750.
There were a few Harley-Davidson loyalists that were shocked at the jump, not because of the death defying distance involved, but because Travis was doing it on an Indian ? not a Harley XR750 he was famous for riding. One of those HD enthusiasts contacted Colin at Number 8 Wire and commissioned him to build a Evel Kneivel inspired Harley using the Street 750. ?My brief was to design and build an Evel tribute bike with the underlying directive of What Would Evel Do"?
With that in mind, Colin decided to do what Evel would do: try something that hasn?t been done before. So he decided to put a supercharger in it. ?The supercharger is a Procharger A1-R, typically used on bigger Harleys as part of a kit,? says Colin. ?Given that no kits are available and it has never been done before, I designed and machined a couple different prototypes for my power output system before settling on the final design.?

Creating a supercharger for the Street 750 turned out to be a...