Cards Bike one year later, FORR Leather and lace ... - The Biking Life
Cards Bike one year later, FORR Leather and lace ... - The Biking Life
Cards Bike one year later, FORR Leather and lace ... - The Biking Life
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Is This the King of <strong>Bike</strong>s<br />
by Rob “Bobo” Belinski<br />
By now every<strong>one</strong> has probably seen the Budweiser poster<br />
featuring various hot chicks posing by an incredibly sharp<br />
looking custom. When I first saw it, I was sure the bike<br />
must have been built by some big-time bike builder from<br />
<strong>one</strong> of the coasts, right? I recently found out that the bike<br />
was built by a local builder, <strong>one</strong> Glen LaRue. I was<br />
introduced to Glen at the Wentzville Wide Open <strong>Bike</strong> Show<br />
by Kim Kirgan of our staff.<br />
After chatting with him for a while, I knew his talent had<br />
to be illuminated as only <strong>The</strong> <strong>Biking</strong> <strong>Life</strong> can. Kent<br />
Meisemann took some awesome pictures for this article<br />
<strong>and</strong> plans were made to talk to Glen at a <strong>later</strong> date.<br />
Time slipped away, but then as fate would have it, I ran<br />
into Glen again when he had a little time, <strong>and</strong> so did I, so<br />
he told me about himself <strong>and</strong> his bike. Glen lives in House<br />
Springs, MO. He has been riding for the past 25 <strong>year</strong>s, he<br />
comes from a family of riders <strong>and</strong> still owns his brother’s<br />
’71 Shovelhead, which is also pictured here. That is very<br />
cool because there are a lot of people out there who will<br />
work on EVOs <strong>and</strong> TCs, but not nearly as many who will<br />
help you keep your Shovelhead running. Glen can <strong>and</strong> will<br />
though.<br />
I asked Glen how he got hooked up with Anheuser-Busch.<br />
He told me R<strong>and</strong>y from Fog Hollow got a call from<br />
some<strong>one</strong> looking for a sharp bike so R<strong>and</strong>y told them about<br />
Glen’s bike. Following that conversation, a photographer<br />
came out <strong>and</strong> took photos of the bike. <strong>The</strong> photographer<br />
had other bikes to shoot, but when the folks at Anheuser-<br />
Busch saw Glen’s bike, they knew they’d found what they<br />
were looking for. Two weeks <strong>later</strong> they did the poster shoot<br />
at Photo Studio by Union Station <strong>and</strong> the rest, as they say,<br />
is history.<br />
We got around to talking about the bike which Glen built<br />
on the rock of a Midwest Choppers frame. With so many<br />
choices of power plants available, Glen opted to use the<br />
RevTech 100. <strong>The</strong> transmission is a Powerhouse 5 speed.<br />
Beyond that, most of the bike was fabricated by Glen, this<br />
includes the fenders as well as the round bar work. <strong>The</strong><br />
paint was d<strong>one</strong> by Brian Saake, a friend of Glen’s who is a
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