If black is beautiful, then La Muerta Negra has the wrong name! But that’s what Rich Fulk, Product Line Manager at Custom Chrome, named his ’09 Harley-Davidson® FXD Super Glide. Rich has been a motorcycle rider for more than 15 years, which amounts to half his life. His first Harley-Davidson motorcycle was a rigid-frame custom that he pieced together with flea market acquired parts and other components. The Harley-Davidson bug had bitten him, but rigid motorcycles were for hard asses. Rich wanted something more comfortable to ride.
Starting with a ’09 FXD, Rich and Darrin Morris at Big Designs, began putting together Black Death after stripping the stock Dyna. No chrome allowed here, only black. Kirk Taylor at Custom Design Studios, sprayed the high-gloss black paint.
Bay Area Performance rebuilt the 96” Twin Cam to displace 106”. A Zipper’s ThunderMax ECU works with an LA Choppers air cleaner to feed the motor clean air/fuel mix. A 2-into-1 SuperTrapp exhaust system extracts the burnt mix. Zipper’s Performance Red Shift cams open and close the valves on time. Lifters are Feuling components, pistons and cylinders are from S&S Cycle. With a compression ration of 10.5:1 it’s no surprise that 108 horsepower and 105 ft.-lbs. of torque are available at the rear wheel. Dressing up the motor a bit is a set of Revolution King Knurled rocker boxes and cam-case cover.
The stock ’09 primary drive carries power to the six-speed transmission where it is then delivered to the rear wheel in rider selected increments. Also on the transmission are Revolution King Knurled side and top covers.
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