If there’s one man who knows how to eke every last bit of performance out of a flat tracker, it’s Richard Pollock. The man known as Mule has been building (and racing) them since long before Bike EXIF was even conceived, and has built some of the most lust-worthy trackers to ever grace these pages. So it’s little wonder that his latest creation—a full-throttle Hooligan flat track racer—is such a tour de force.
If you’re not familiar with the American Grand National Hooligan Championship, it’s a flat track series aimed at amateurs running highly hopped-up street bikes. The rules are straightforward; you can run any street-legal production bike over 649 cc, with an open book on motor, swingarm, and wheel mods.…