This guy is what America is about. Home grown craftsman, doing quality work. I hope he is training an apprentice to continue when he retires. Great man.
I don't know if he's training an apprentice, that's a really good idea. I'll ask him about it next time we talk. He is building a museum outside of Sturgis. Use Google search term sugar bear museum and you should be able to find it.
@@wanarazrock and rollers are still asking for them. Danny, at Count's Customs uses Sugar Bear's rockets all the time.. especially if he's going to rake the forks.
Is he still around in 2020 .. ? Or did he pass ? ..... I would like to have met him .. I First became aware of his work through early 80's issues of E.R. , when I was first getting into that mag while stationed in Germany ..... and the chopper world .
He had an in-depth understanding of suspension geometry and its operation (two wheeled cycles) but more importantly the physics and dynamics at the design inception, he just had to fabricate a prototype of his ideas to obtain his proof of concept, and have a starting point in order to dial in the design geometry for optimum function! He had an epiphany!
Sugar Bear is a true gentleman and visionary of the craft. It's really sad that he isn't the house hold name he should be. People may know the Springers he makes but they know too little of the man. Great Dude and Great Work. a true example of American grit.
(replying from another account) - I'm glad you appreciate it. He's a great guy, humble, and amazing builder. He's gone to schools in Los Angeles teaching kids the importantance of math - using his motorcycle builds as an example.
I feel an injust was done to Benny Hardy and Cliff Vaughn ..these two Katz reguardless of the complection of their skin should have had the highest standing in the chopper Boom of the 70s ..Sugar Bear is an Icon .
@@europrowlr Yeah ! I know .. And I know pieces of scat like Fonda .and many others wanted Credit for Hardys , ideas and work .. there was a Black Bike Club around LA . Not like the mongols or Angels ..these Cats Dressed professional riding caps exctra .I cannot remember what the went by .. a few years have gone By .
These are the skills that need to be past on to the younger craftsman and women that build these works of engineering art work a bike that you can ride one handed or even with 2 or 3 fingers soothes the soul that is riding it 🤟🏻✌🏻
With the Sultan of spring's advancing age, Just who's gonna fill his shoes? ordering up a few 25 over forks and tucking them away could be extremely profitable!
@@toosunakabooma1213 Sounds like a great idea. He's not knocking on the door yet, though Danny 'The Count' Kustoms in Las Vegas may be the man who knows Sugar Bear's bikes best.
@@europrowlr Sugarbear and his half century of ground zero involvement in the art and science of the American street chopper has been undeniably clear to the legions of men and women that were building riding and showing the world that choppers were a way bigger deal than a jazzed up Harley.when the Honda and Kaw fours were in so many Garages the parts to turn ho hum caterpillars into outrageous state of the art fire breathing butterflies ,Sugarbear was all in.He was of the mindset that didn't bind him to choppers having to be Harleys.The first hardtailed springer forked Molly metalflaked and molded 750 honda chopper was under the ass of sugarbear on the cover of Tom and Rose's monthly Chopper (street chopper?) Magazine.The mcmullens ran articles that featured pics of bear riding chopped harleys that. any IQ 90 brain freeze could connect to the Hopper/ Fonda builds.In 1969 this 12 year old chopper junkie was 100% up to speed with the easy rider bikes.who what when where why. All the mainstream media contributions over the years that made up some of the most pitiful piss poor bullshit about the E/R bikes never even once was the topic of conversation .All who were there was plugged into the life and Yosemite sam Radolf Ron finch Tony Carlini Mike Brown were all happy to let me get closerthanthis to the best of the best at the Detroit cyclorama. The idea that there was a deliberate effort to cloud the origins of the chopper and the people that were fortunate enough to go to work in the morning and build choppers never wavered far from the art.There wasn't time for all the rockstar bullshit.
i use to watch michelle and that tv program. i have heard about sugar bear on count's kustoms tv show but this is the first time i have seen any videos on him.
No other bike company builds their front ends to attached to the frame as he does, with all the other companies when you turn the front wheel the whole frame moves several inches both ways, why don't ALL the other bike companies build better front ends? I would think BMW would be the first to copy Sugar Bears front end in the way it attaches to the frame but have not, I have a BMW and can tell you they do not nor do their new bikes, WHY NOT? So all riders on other bikes will with out being aware of it will continue to have to fight when there should be none at all and most riders may not have any idea of the fight but as a physicist who has studied most front ends in depth I understand it completely, Sugar Bear did a great thing in putting this set up together, thank you so very much Sir. I'd love to have one of your bikes but don't ever think I could afford one as I'm about as poor as one can be. I stated I have a BMW, a very used one, 2009, just bought it with funds owed to me for some time and the bike is quite high mileage, 54k. Don't feel sorry for me being poor though, I had three really bad car accidents that really messed up my back and put me on disability at age 50 in 2002 and I'm 66 now, the accidents turned my life up side down but I've gotten on with life and done the best I could. I've built several chops in the early 70's, they were great, sold them, I've been riding as long as Sugar Bear has, again well done Sir.
Sugar Bear teachers the foundation of geometry, using his bike as an example, to elementary grade schools. As a physicist, you might appreciate that. ❤️
Bear's springers handle well because of the correct rocker geometry. Bear knows all about correct rake/trail. I remember Dick Allen's springers too. Freddie Hernandez used to build long springers in SoCal. Fat's Sportster Heaven (good shop). Good stuff. Personally, I've always ran "glide" forks (no longer than six-over). Build safe / ride safe.
If you can build a motorcycle...if you can create something from an image inside your head, and RIDE IT, you have my utmost respect. Your race is irrelevant. PERIOD.
Brett, find a Paughco frame with the right geometry. Then buy the engine . rebuild it necessary. Then fill your big parts list. There's your. .Bedrock to build on. Swap meets are a big help. Godspeed.
Bro that project bike he got 40 over those bars way to thin I see them bowing when he puts his weight on it lmaoooo one hard pothole they gon fuck up and send him
That flame work on sugarbear's bike is pitiful ugly. I know that this man could have the best of the best custom painters lining up to offer their talents, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.But every time I see this otherwise incredible bike I wonder what the story is regarding the baby shit brown afterthought flames over white pearl.Ill no doubt take some heat here but im reminded of the story: The kings new clothes..
Aren't bikes supposed to be exciting transportation? These bikes appear to have no purpose other than act as a stage to put on a fucking show. As an example any fool knows that shocks work better than a Hard tail. A short stroke multi cylinder engines makes triple the HP of an old iron flywheel pushrod engine etc I think these people who build choppers priorities are fucked up!
40..over...and so smooth..Sugar Bear...is the legend...the best...
Craftsman is a understatement. Sugarbear was a artist
Exactly!😎👍
IS! He's not dead! For an update on his life, Google Sugar Bear museum.
This guy is what America is about. Home grown craftsman, doing quality work. I hope he is training an apprentice to continue when he retires. Great man.
There is not much call for those front ends anymore.
I don't know if he's training an apprentice, that's a really good idea. I'll ask him about it next time we talk.
He is building a museum outside of Sturgis. Use Google search term sugar bear museum and you should be able to find it.
@@wanarazrock and rollers are still asking for them. Danny, at Count's Customs uses Sugar Bear's rockets all the time.. especially if he's going to rake the forks.
@@parisattic There will always be a call for chopper front ends. But the chopper days are over for right now and long front ends are not wanted.
As SB says, if it isn't long, it's wrong. 😮
That white chopper with yellow flames is perfect. Sugar Bear looks so comfortable. Saving my money so I can have the man build me one just like it.
Love the motto. If it ain't long, it's wrong. ✌🏽
I met the Suger Bear in Sturgis and i can honestly say that he is a true gentlemen and a friendly man.
May peace be with you Suger Bear✌
Is he still around in 2020 .. ? Or did he pass ? ..... I would like to have met him .. I First became aware of his work through early 80's issues of E.R. , when I was first getting into that mag while stationed in Germany ..... and the chopper world .
@@1959hogryder He's still on this side of heaven.
I would like to give a shout out to Sugar Bear. I built a 53 Pan finishing the build in the summer of 72. Sugar Bear built my 21 over springer..
What became of the bike?
He had an in-depth understanding of suspension geometry and its operation (two wheeled cycles) but more importantly the physics and dynamics at the design inception, he just had to fabricate a prototype of his ideas to obtain his proof of concept, and have a starting point in order to dial in the design geometry for optimum function! He had an epiphany!
Sugar Bear, John Harman, Dick Allen, Tom Fugle, Benny Hardy, Tony Carlini, Ed Roth, Freddie Hernandez -- all legends.
Don't forget Indian Larry.
and Clif Vaughs .
Gene Paulk well of course! evel goes without saying. he inspired all sorts of daredevils.
we were just focusing on builders here though.
Sugar Bear is a true gentleman and visionary of the craft. It's really sad that he isn't the house hold name he should be. People may know the Springers he makes but they know too little of the man. Great Dude and Great Work. a true example of American grit.
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I asked Sugar Bear about that. He looked at me and said "How often do you see a brother in a motorcycle magazine?"
I never noticed that. 😕
Thank you so much for sharing this!!!
(replying from another account) - I'm glad you appreciate it. He's a great guy, humble, and amazing builder. He's gone to schools in Los Angeles teaching kids the importantance of math - using his motorcycle builds as an example.
is he still around?
Very cool, love the way it all started.
Babbye
Awesome sugarbear !....nothing like the old school bikes
Met Surger Bear this year in Reno very cool to met a legendary man
Sugar Bear is the "Chopper Springer Master..."
What a cool dude!
I feel an injust was done to Benny Hardy and Cliff Vaughn ..these two Katz reguardless of the complection of their skin should have had the highest standing in the chopper Boom of the 70s ..Sugar Bear is an Icon .
Did you know that Benny made the Easy Rider bikes? He made 2 of them.
@@europrowlr
Yeah ! I know ..
And I know pieces of scat like Fonda .and many others wanted Credit for Hardys , ideas and work .. there was a Black Bike Club around LA . Not like the mongols or Angels ..these Cats Dressed professional riding caps exctra .I cannot remember what the went by .. a few years have gone By .
@@europrowlr
Looks like we neighbors now .
Oh shut up!
"If it ain't long -- it's wrong" -- Sugar Bear
Always liked his front ends they look cool and they run smooth they're awesome 👍
These are the skills that need to be past on to the younger craftsman and women that build these works of engineering art work a bike that you can ride one handed or even with 2 or 3 fingers soothes the soul that is riding it 🤟🏻✌🏻
Baddest Front End Every Made.
" I'll Always Love 💘you Hayden Panettiere "
Sugar bear is the man!
Springers from Sugar Bear is like getting angel in heaven... I paid big bucks for mine many years ago I still have it.....
One of my best investments was getting a Sugar Bear front end... Very happy
With the Sultan of spring's advancing age, Just who's gonna fill his shoes? ordering up a few 25 over forks and tucking them away could be extremely profitable!
@@toosunakabooma1213 Sounds like a great idea. He's not knocking on the door yet, though Danny 'The Count' Kustoms in Las Vegas may be the man who knows Sugar Bear's bikes best.
@@europrowlr Sugarbear and his half century of ground zero involvement in the art and science of the American street chopper has been undeniably clear to the legions of men and women that were building riding and showing the world that choppers were a way bigger deal than a jazzed up Harley.when the Honda and Kaw fours were in so many Garages the parts to turn ho hum caterpillars into outrageous state of the art fire breathing butterflies ,Sugarbear was all in.He was of the mindset that didn't bind him to choppers having to be Harleys.The first hardtailed springer forked Molly metalflaked and molded 750 honda chopper was under the ass of sugarbear on the cover of Tom and Rose's monthly Chopper (street chopper?) Magazine.The mcmullens ran articles that featured pics of bear riding chopped harleys that. any IQ 90 brain freeze could connect to the Hopper/ Fonda builds.In 1969 this 12 year old chopper junkie was 100% up to speed with the easy rider bikes.who what when where why. All the mainstream media contributions over the years that made up some of the most pitiful piss poor bullshit about the E/R bikes never even once was the topic of conversation .All who were there was plugged into the life and Yosemite sam Radolf Ron finch Tony Carlini Mike Brown were all happy to let me get closerthanthis to the best of the best at the Detroit cyclorama. The idea that there was a deliberate effort to cloud the origins of the chopper and the people that were fortunate enough to go to work in the morning and build choppers never wavered far from the art.There wasn't time for all the rockstar bullshit.
i use to watch michelle and that tv program. i have heard about sugar bear on count's kustoms tv show but this is the first time i have seen any videos on him.
I would love to meet him what a nice man
No other bike company builds their front ends to attached to the frame as he does, with all the other companies when you turn the front wheel the whole frame moves several inches both ways, why don't ALL the other bike companies build better front ends? I would think BMW would be the first to copy Sugar Bears front end in the way it attaches to the frame but have not, I have a BMW and can tell you they do not nor do their new bikes, WHY NOT? So all riders on other bikes will with out being aware of it will continue to have to fight when there should be none at all and most riders may not have any idea of the fight but as a physicist who has studied most front ends in depth I understand it completely, Sugar Bear did a great thing in putting this set up together, thank you so very much Sir. I'd love to have one of your bikes but don't ever think I could afford one as I'm about as poor as one can be. I stated I have a BMW, a very used one, 2009, just bought it with funds owed to me for some time and the bike is quite high mileage, 54k. Don't feel sorry for me being poor though, I had three really bad car accidents that really messed up my back and put me on disability at age 50 in 2002 and I'm 66 now, the accidents turned my life up side down but I've gotten on with life and done the best I could. I've built several chops in the early 70's, they were great, sold them, I've been riding as long as Sugar Bear has, again well done Sir.
Sugar Bear teachers the foundation of geometry, using his bike as an example, to elementary grade schools. As a physicist, you might appreciate that. ❤️
What a gent.
wow mate you are one cool man sugar bear thank you for your work great man
John here love his forks a with the springs too cool
I have worn over here in Washington. Sugar, front end and frame. It was finished up by wolf Custom
Thank sugar bear.
I love it.
Thirty over eleven feet long
Dick Allen (RIP) Freddie Hernandez -- both built great springer forks.
How much are the sugarbear springer front ends ?
haha damn your husband's got that thing hoppin!
0:22 good god that mill is a beast
I'd say thanks to her every time she rides...if ya know what I mean!
He does 😏
Thanks 👍 sugar bear
Love the bike miss smith
Bear's springers handle well because of the correct rocker geometry. Bear knows all about correct rake/trail. I remember Dick Allen's springers too. Freddie Hernandez used to build long springers in SoCal. Fat's Sportster Heaven (good shop). Good stuff. Personally, I've always ran "glide" forks (no longer than six-over). Build safe / ride safe.
R.I.P. DICK ALLEN
Father of the belt drive....✌
Cool!!😎👍
Check out the Japan long choppers.
sorry dude, Ben Hardy built the captain America bike, from East Ride
If you can build a motorcycle...if you can create something from an image inside your head, and RIDE IT, you have my utmost respect. Your race is irrelevant. PERIOD.
Very Well Said Sir!!!
AMEN BROTHER!!!
I really want to build an old school chopper.
Brett, find a Paughco frame with the right geometry. Then buy the engine . rebuild it necessary. Then fill your big parts list. There's your. .Bedrock to build on. Swap meets are a big help. Godspeed.
Excellent beautiful.
''excellent''
well cool !!
None of these beauties compares.
Hey look, it's Michelle Smith! LOL
Bro that project bike he got 40 over those bars way to thin I see them bowing when he puts his weight on it lmaoooo one hard pothole they gon fuck up and send him
✌️
He's cool.
💪🤲🏾
Can I get contact info for Sugar Bear.
waanzinnig cool
if you ever feel like giving some away, let me know
Who da man ? Sugar Bear
Rite it loose🤙🏼
Suge night aint got shizzle on sugar bear LOL
Easy ride
this looks more like 1993.
Which bike are you referring to?
C00L
What killed me you going to the Harley-Davidson place to the so-called hardcore bikers? They don't even know who this man is.
Sugerbear.. could you build me cb450 chopper
His front-ends are the only ones that look good on a bike.
ben hardy built the easy rider bikes
sugar bear choppers DOT com
Damn woman 😍
Whoa.
Y
@@mikeysmith3755
Why? Did you not see the woman?
I saw something I'd like to ride
❤😊
shit sHOW
Negro, cómprate una pisterita multicolor
Nice to go for a ride but not practical at all....!!
That flame work on sugarbear's bike is pitiful ugly. I know that this man could have the best of the best custom painters lining up to offer their talents, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.But every time I see this otherwise incredible bike I wonder what the story is regarding the baby shit brown afterthought flames over white pearl.Ill no doubt take some heat here but im reminded of the story: The kings new clothes..
She makes something of mine long and stretched out. Bahaha
Aren't bikes supposed to be exciting transportation? These bikes appear to have no purpose other than act as a stage to put on a fucking show. As an example any fool knows that shocks work better than a Hard tail. A short stroke multi cylinder engines makes triple the HP of an old iron flywheel pushrod engine etc I think these people who build choppers priorities are fucked up!