Pig Bait Harley-Davidson Rocker C

I HAD NO intention of purchasing a Harley-Davidson until I walked into my mate’s garage and found a brand new Street Bob sitting there. I asked him to start the bike up, and as soon as I heard the rumble, I knew I had to own one. Kevin took me to Blacktown Harley-Davidson one afternoon, and there it was, a brand new Rocker C just sitting there. I looked at him and said that’s the bike.

 I told Matt from Blacktown Harley-Davidson I wanted my bike to be different to all the other Rockers. He showed me some pics of some custom rear-ends they had installed and we went from there. I thought I should do as much as I could before I brought the bike home so my wife would think this was how I got it.

The guys at Blacktown Harley-Davidson organised the custom rear fender, custom seat, and fitted the Vance & Hines pipes, Screamin’ Eagle filter, race tuner, and a nice set of Burleigh bars.

After a few months, I got bored of the look of the bike and wanted to add my own touch, but I wanted something that wasn’t over the top.

I ordered the Heartland front fender and axel covers, and after that I got myself a Harley-Davidson catalogue and just started ordering the parts one by one. I got the usual things like the chrome switch housings, pegs, grips, bolt covers and so on.

After all that I thought the bike needed a set of number plates to match. I came up with PIG 68. Not everyone gets it. I just tell them to think of the ‘6’ as a ‘b’ and it reads PIG BAIT.

I got sick of always polishing the wheels so I ended up buying a set of the original wheels in chrome.

Next was the motor. My best mate Jimmy fitted all the chrome covers to the motor for me, from the rockers to the inner and out primary, starter cover, etc. 

My mate Victor was kind enough to throw me some braided lines he had lying around.

I didn’t like the dash on the tank so I started flicking through some old Ozbike mags to get some ideas and I came across an older model Harley and thought the tank dash looked neat. I sourced one and modified it to fit my tank, just to make it different.

 I got Dave from Bad-Arse Trim to re-do the seat in tan leather.

Just want to thank my lovely wife Dee; Jimmy, Daniel and Matt at Blacktown Harley-Davidson; Ernie and Carl at Merv Newby Smash Repairs for the paint; and Sam from red-wall tyres.

Photos by George; words by Oscar