Occasionally you get the call. You spend all your free time in your backyard or garage, mostly for the love of it, and then one of the big guys notices what you’ve been up to. Harley-Davidson Australia noticed Nigel Petrie. They called to ask him to have some fun on their dime, and that he did.
Nigel is the mind behind Engineered To Slide, a custom auto and motorcycle garage from Down Under. He’s been headdown and neck-deep in projects of all sorts since 2010. As a builder, Nigel is always challenging himself from one project to the next, whether it’s a drifting Toyota pickup, a landspeed KTM, or this Harley-Davidson hillclimber.
After some historical and technical research, he got to work transforming a bone-stock Street 750 into the modern hill climber Harley-Davidson was asking for.…