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Jeff Moreau of Nederland, Texas, has been riding for the majority of his 46 years on Earth. He rode his first Harley when he was just a wee lad of 15, and has owned a vast array of different types of motorcycles since then.

Jeff and his wife Jane often go on weekend rides, and during one particular trip down to the Galveston Bay area of Texas, they spotted a pair of really cool bikes parked outside of a local bar. One of the bikes was a very radically styled chopper and the other was an equally impressive custom trike. Jeff and Jane were so blow away that they waited hours for the owners of the bikes to come back, so that they could find out who had built them. Hours after sunset the bikes were still sitting there, and it was time for Jeff and Jane to head home since they had to work the following morning.

Try as he did, Jeff just couldn't get the image of the chopper out of his head. He never found out who built the bikes that day, but he did remember seeing the letters CCC engraved on the axle covers. After a quick search of the Houston area turned up nothing, Jeff branched out and started trying the surrounding area to see what he could find.

One shop that he called thought that the three Cs might have been the work of Covington's Cycle City in Woodward, Oklahoma. It was worth a try, so Jeff called Covington's and got owner Jerry Covington on the other end of the line. After a partial description of the chopper that he had seen came out, Jerry stopped Jeff mid-sentence and said, "Oh, you mean the Limo Chopper."

As Jerry spoke about the bike in great detail, Jeff knew that he had finally found the builder of his dream bike. Jeff hopped on a plane the following weekend to visit Jerry and see how CCC did its work on an up-close and personal basis. Jerry turned Jeff loose on his personal orange Twin Cam-powered chopper, and the two started talking about the bike build the minute Jeff pulled back into the shop.

Jerry started the bike with one of his Twin Cam B Softail frames. The bike would have 45 degrees of rake, 8 inches of upward stretch to give the top of the engine a little more headroom, and a 180-series rear tire. The CCC-built forks were made by placing a pair of Forking by Frank 16-inch-over tubes in a set of CCC 5-degree triple-trees and fitting a couple of Perse Performance sliders to the bottom.

A couple of weeks into the project, Jeff called Jerry to tell him that he had been reconsidering his rear tire size and now wanted to go with at least a 240-series. Although this would require the use of a different swingarm, Jerry told him that it wouldn't be a problem and got to work on fattening up the rear end with an all-new swingarm. The wheels came from Extreme Machine. The front is a 21-inch with a Metzeler tire and six-piston P.M. brake, while the rear is an 18-incher fit with the 240-series Metzeler tire and Exile Cycle rear brake.

Covington's built a potent 95-inch Twin Cam based on a set of Harley cases and bottom-end components. The bored-out H-D cylinders were filled with a set of Screamin' Eagle pistons and topped with a pair of ported Screamin' Eagle heads. A set of 204 Screamin' Eagle camshafts controls the flow of the air and fuel as it enters via a pair of Patrick Racing/Mikuni carburetors and exits from an MGS exhaust system. A Baker six-speed tranny was added to the mix, receiving input from a Barnett clutch pack. The entire driveline was machined and spaced to be on-center in the frame for better handling, which required a lot of work on CCC's part.

The only items needed to wrap things up on the bike were the sheetmetal and accessories. Dusty Brown of Pro Auto Body was handed an Independent Gas Tank fuel tank, and a CCC oil tank and fenders. Dusty took them back to his shop and covered them with the very tastefully done orange basecoat and flamed graphics that you see on these pages. A set of CCC handlebars with built-in risers was added, and a Dakota Digital speedometer was installed. The hand and foot controls were both picked up from Performance Machine. Lighting is handled by a Headwinds headlight up front and a Paul Yaffe Originals taillight at the rear.

Jeff loves his new bike and tells us that all the travel back and forth from Texas to Oklahoma was well worth the expense and effort. He's so thrilled with the craftsmanship of CCC, that he's commissioned them to build a custom 103-inch Twin Cam trike for his wife, Jane. If we can get our hands on a few photos of the finished trike, we'll be sure to bring them your way in a future issue.