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June 26, 2002 The Rebirth of Lizard’s 52 Bad Ass Panhead Bar Hopper By T.Bear Lizard is known around New York City for his annual toy parties at Hogs & Heifers Bar located on 1st Avenue between 95th & 96th Street. He is also known for his slamming block parties. At the last block party, over 300 bikes were recorded in attendance, the infamous block parties came to a halt thanks to former Mayor Rudy Guilianni, we can no longer get a liquor license, we won't tell if you don't… |
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| Let’s not leave
out the famous Lizard scream for an "attitude check" where the
entire bar will yell back "FUCK YOU!!!!" and let me just say
if you don’t yell back in loud enough and with the right attitude, it
will be repeated until you get right.
Lizard has had this bike for 30 years. This is its 4th transformation. After years of riding a hard tail over NYC potholes and dodging towel headed driven taxi cabs, suffering from 4 compressed discs in his lower back causing lots of pain, he glommed the information from a friend about a rolling soft tail frame for sale and jumped on it. Using only the frame and oil bags from the soft tail he started his newest project. |
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| Over the next two years, endless swap meets and UPS visiting Lizard every week delivering part after part, it seemed every week was like Christmas. Finally with all the parts at hand, he started putting the bike together in his Manhattan living room. Jammin' a panhead into a soft tail frame was a lot of hard work… and then he ripped it apart again. |
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| Now it was time for the paint work to be done and with the help of his long time friend and co-worker Benny, to whom Lizard thanks for a job well done, the bike got a rattle can purple coat with gold flames. Then back to the living room to put it all back together again. Lizard worked his old ass off putting all the parts back together without scratching the new paint job. He didn’t see his Bro’s for weeks at a time and on Saturday, June 1st he placed a call to his Bro’s "I need help getting the bike out of the house." |
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| Getting it out of the house was no easy task, the tin and front wheel needed to be removed. Once outside, tin & wheel went back on, He got gas and once an for all kicked and kicked and kicked and kicked once more and all that hard work finally paid off. With the sound of the pipes roaring Lizard let out a scream "It’s Alive, It’s Alive!" |
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| After making a few adjustments to the S&S carb, the bike kicked ass and looked great doing it. Being an old war buddy, he called me and told me it was finally done. "When you gonna come and shoot this bitch for me?" he asked. "Well, it's a bar hopper right?" I said. "Fuckin A bro." So we had a thought. It had never been done before… "hop the bitch ON TOP of da bar at Hogs & Heifers, get a few of the lovely suds slingers into their skimpies and maybe we got something here " I told him. And so boys and girls, here for your amazement is a true NYC Bar Hoppin Panhead Legend. |
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| After the shoot Sunday afternoon, We took off to see what kind of mischief we could get into runnin the red lights in da Big Apple. We hit a park on the East Side of Manhattan where the ladies were just too thrilled to bare their souls and other choice parts for us. |
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| Lizard thanks
Benny, Big Joe, Donna, Hogs & Heifer’s Bruce and Michelle, Crash,
Teacher, Skinny, KC, Yours Truly and most of all, his daughter Hillary
for putting up with his bike and his shit for years.
"ATTITUDE CHECK" "FUCK YOU LIZARD" TB
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