In this Issue…

DOUGZ Pro-Tour 'X' featured on Torque TV

The Pro-Tour 'S' is next model to be introduced

Our very first Bike Night & the Juvenile Diabetes Thunder Ride

DOUGZ 'Convertibagger' going cheap!

Fall Flood Run - Sept. 20th

Our Winter Schedule

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DOUGZ Pro-Tour 'X' featured on Torque TV

During the S&S Cycle 50th Anniversary the good folks at Torque TV were on hand interviewing various builders about the bikes they built for the competition. Saturday afternoon they spent a half-hour with Mark Platt and I going over the finer points of the Pro-Tour 'X'. While you're surfing the net follow this link to Torque TV. http://www.torque.tv/?player=TorqueTV_27_copy&ct=1&ids=231136 You'll find a video of the interview and a short segment of Mark and I collecting the 'People's Choice' award. What an honor for the Pro-Tour 'X' to be chosen as the favorite bike of thousands of people who came to La Crosse in June and to be picked by Torque TV as one of their Top 20 bikes of the event!

I see a Pro-Tour ‘S’ in the future…

As many of our ‘regular’ visitors know, we are in the early stages of another build dubbed the Pro-Tour ‘S’. What we’re doing is creating a bike that will have many of the same characteristics of the Pro-Tour ‘X’ but we’re basing it on a Genuine Sportster chassis as our platform. We’ve dropped the seat area 3 ¼ inches to put you in a nice pocket (only 24.5 inches off the pavement!), stretched the swingarm 6 inches to give the bike ¾ inch MORE wheelbase than a full size dresser, added StreetGlide air shocks, built an oil tank that’s cradled between the swingarm horizontals and set the battery just above the oil tank.

What you end up with is a Lightweight, long-wheelbase, low center-of-gravity, drop seat Hot Rod with many attributes of a purebred Drag bike and it includes the racy yet functional fairing, the side covers that double as storage compartments, and of course our exclusive ‘clamshell’ rear fender/storage area that is found on the Pro-Tour ‘X’. With a seat height 2 inches LOWER than a Standard Softail or Sportster ‘Low’ and a full 3 inches lower than a StreetGlide even a person with the shortest of inseams will sit comfortably flat-footed on this scoot. Plus the added benefit of being roughly 200 lbs. LIGHTER than a StreetGlide!

Keep checking the DOUGZ website as we’ll begin adding progress images real soon in the ‘Custom Built Bikes’ gallery.

DOUGZ ‘Convertibagger’ For Sale – CHEAP!!

My loss will be someone else’s gain! Building the new Pro-Tour ‘S’ means I won’t be needing the shop’s ‘Convertibagger’ any longer and the price has been reduced even MORE to give this beauty a new home! The Convertibagger has served me well since it first hit the road in mid-2004 and was featured in the Jan/Feb 2007 issue of IronWorks Magazine. Tell anyone you know who is looking for a sweet bagger, custom built with the taller rider in mind. For more info on the Convertibagger follow this link: http://www.dougz.com/custom_bikes.php?sgid=55

Bike Night & the Thunder Ride

In Mid-July we did a custom paint and accessory treatment on a 2008 Sportster that was raffled off on July 26^that the “Thunder Ride for Juvenile Diabetes.” On July 24^th we had our first ‘Bike Night’ where the Sportster was unveiled. We had a nice turn out and as you can see a little side show by one of our ‘Boss Hoss’ friends! We had this gathering just to get a feel for how many people would show up and the next day I decided it would make more sense to call it something other than a ‘Bike Night’. After all, our core business is painting ALL kinds of vehicles. We may do more of these next summer based on feedback we’ve received, and if we do you’ll be the first ones to know as we’ll announce the monthly ‘Full-Throttle Thursdays’ right here! All types of vehicles will be invited to show up. Stay tuned! By the way, the Thunder Ride was again hugely successful, raising something in the neighborhood of $100,000.00 for this very worthy cause! We’re proud to be a part of it and look forward to next year’s event.

Fall Flood Run – September 20^th

That right, its Flood Run time again and we’ll be setting up the FREE Coffee and Donuts for anyone interested in swinging by on their way through or out of town. As usual this is NOT an organized ride so you can come and go as you please. Stop in, say Hi, grab a cup of Joe and a Nutritious donut, take a peek at our latest projects then get your butt back out on the road for a great day of riding and viewing all the craziness that comes with being on the Flood Run! We’ll have the Dough ‘n Joe going from 8:30 until 11:00 then we’re hittin’ the road as well.

Our Hours

Most of you are familiar with our ‘By Appointment Only’ business hours, but it seems many aren’t aware that we’re WIDE OPEN every Friday afternoon from Noon until 5 O’ Clock. So if you just want to drop in to see what we’ve been up to, any Friday afternoon is a great time to swing by! As usual, if you need some one-on-one time to discuss your upcoming project, just give us a shout so we can set aside some time whenever its most convenient for you - Monday through Friday.

DOUGZ Winter schedule

Being I’m on the subject of your projects, this would be a fitting place to mention our winter schedule… its filling up fast, as usual! If you’ve got custom paint, chrome accessories, wheels, whatever you can imagine you’d like to have done on your bike to take it from Ho-Hum Stock to “Holy shit is that cool!” NOW is the time to get on our schedule – NOT in January as we’re usually booked into June by then. Same goes for our Street Rod clients… if you’re in need of custom paint and/or body mods you’ll need to get on our schedule quick if you want it done before next spring!

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