Kenny Davanzo’s 1949 Chop
Kenny took a basket-case of a bike from the Mississippi swamp and built it up to the laid-out chop you see here.
He took it down to the frame and raked the neck to build a old school chopper. The frame is an original wish bone, and the motor is the original 1949 pan he rebuilt from the crank up It has a mild cam and has 10:1 Wiseco pistons and a Joe Hunt magneto. The transmission has Andrews close ratio set up with a BDL 3 inch drive.
He did some fabrication to have the oil tank to sit up tight on the frame. Above that is a Chopper Shox seat pan. The bike runs great and sounds damn mean especially going down the road. Nothing sounds like old school bikes rolling along the blacktop.
He did the work at his Hazardous Cycles shop in Detroit motor city. Check him out!
Photos: Kenny Davanzo, Story: T-Bone
