Recently DOUGZ designed a unique chin fairing for 2009 and newer FL models equipped with the stock oil cooler, but make no mistake, this isn’t just a handsome little dress-up item. This fairing is aerodynamically designed to provide a laminar air flow to the oil cooler. The outboard ducts grab cooling air and forces it through the oil cooler rather than leaving the oil cooler ‘searching’ for cool air behind the front tire, while the mesh screens help keep road debris out of the oil cooler.

Another major consideration - with this chin fairing you can keep your stock front fender! You read that right boys and girls, DOUGZ R&D Dept. (that’d be me - Doug) spent many hours making sure this chin would not interfere with a stock fender, and to make this an easy bolt-on item – saving you time and hard-earned money. 

The fairing ships directly from DOUGZ to you, ready for paint, and we even supply you with the mounting hardware and mesh screens. Retail price is $389.00 with FREE shipping. Place your orders NOW to avoid the Christmas rush for this excellent ‘Stocking Stuffer’! Just give us a shout at 608-783-3684  or email at info@dougz.com and we'll put our little elve's right to work on your order!

See this clock? It doesn’t look like anything special does it? To most people it doesn’t represent anything more than a dirty old clock, but to me it represents a piece of American Made quality and many more things. Let me explain: As a child this clock hung on the wall in the first house I remember living in with my parents Everest and Vera, or as the locals knew them “Skinny and Bea”, as well as my dear sister Lynn and brother Dean. After we moved out of that house into the new one in 1966 this clock wasn’t classy enough to put in that shiny new place so I think it was put in a box in preparation for a rummage sale. Later still, my Dad decided to have his auto repair business “Skinny’s Auto Shop” next to the house, and when that building was done this clock was scavenged from the rummage sale boxes and returned to work in the shop. It worked flawlessly in that shop from around 1969 until it again was put back in a box as the shop was being renovated into “Gas N Grub” convenience store in 1985. It remained in that box until I quit my job at Trane Air Conditioning as a machinist to pursue my career as a full time custom painter in 1988. The clock was my paint coat timer at the shop I rented on Copeland Ave. in La Crosse for one year while my brother and I had the current shop built here on Palace Street– it remains my timer here. The clock was made by a company called Westclox Electric in LaSalle, Ill. The year unknown – as I said, as far back as I can remember and I turned 52 earlier this month.

So what’s the point of this post? Many points actually – here are a couple. First, and most importantly it is a connection to my wonderful parents who I lost in 1992. Second, it represents something that I believe still exists in America, the desire to create high quality products – I believe there are a lot of people in this country that still take pride in their work and I pray to God every day that the 545 people we’ve elected to keep this country on track will begin to have SOME kind of conscience about what they are doing and will stop killing our way of life with their arrogance and senseless wasting of our tax dollars while they argue like immature little children on the playground. I look at that clock every single day and every time it reminds me of working in my Dad’s shop and how his focus was always on doing the job right and doing it at a fair price – I have a lot of Skinny in me… Some people will say I’m too expensive, and that’s fine, but as the old saying goes “You get what you pay for”. Honestly, if I was making such a killing wouldn’t you think I’d be driving a newer vehicle than my old 2000 GMC? Darn straight I would!

I’d LOVE to be driving a brand new vehicle, and I may just get one when I sell the PhatBoyce/Convertibagger you see on the left. I’ve reduced the price many times over the last year in an effort to put that bike in a new home and am honestly tired of people exclaiming “I can’t believe SOMEONE hasn’t bought that thing yet – that is a screamin’ deal!” It is a great deal and I don’t think it’s a price thing at this point, its simply the fact that the right person hasn’t seen it yet. Sooner or later the right person will walk through the door and will see the pride I take in my work, and how focused I am on creating a high quality – long lasting product. Its only a matter of  TIME.

They say every cloud has a silver lining. After Jeremy Neumann's Big Dog was damaged there was a HUGE cloud perpetuated by the closing of Big Dog Motorcycles and the concern over getting replacement parts for the bike. While Jeremy went to work on his computer scouring the country for replacement parts we went about the work of removing damaged components. The silver lining to this cloud is that, according to Jeremy, the bike is BETTER than it was before the damage. Click on the image to learn about what we did with the bike to make it better than before.

Don Hess stopped in one day with an idea for a custom luggage rack he wanted for his StreetGlide. After nailing down the new custom sideplates he wanted me to create, he inquired about doing 'something with a skull' on the bar to replace the plain Jane mount from the factory. The appropriately named "Donster" skull is the result and it's available to anyone with a touring model that carries a detachable backrest. It comes to you show chrome plated and includes chrome buttonhead mounting hardware. Retail price is $69.95 with FREE shipping. This would make an excellent stocking stuffer, and is easy as pie to get. Just call us at 608-783-3684 or email info@dougz.com letting us know where you want it shipped and we'll take care of the rest.

The Pro-Tour 'S' has been making the rounds as of late and everywhere it goes I'm inviting people to sit 'in the pocket' of this transformed XL. To see just a few of the folks who've checked this machine out you can swing over to my Facebook page where I've got a boat load of images posted. Just follow this link. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.217417051638453.54201.167918786588280

Custom created components
DOUGZ offers a number of components to fit stock H-D models. Hand laid fiberglass components we offer are: The Dyna and Pro-Tour ‘S’ chin fairings as well as the Deuce Bobtail rear fender conversion kit. Another popular item we have in stock and ready to ship are the Rapper embellishments for the S&S Cycle ‘teardrop’ air filters - you'll never find a less expensive way to pull the color of your machine into the engine area of your scooter.