Back in February, 2022, the guys at Bikes and Beards brought what they thought was a Harley-Davidson WLA engine over to Matt Walksler at Wheels Through Time. As the story goes, they’d found an entire disused WLA that had sat, unridden, for decades—and then rode it back home (after sticking some new tires on it). Once there, they knew it needed a whole lot of TLC, and they weren’t totally sure what they were looking at, so they decided to bring the important bits to someone more knowledgeable than they were.
Walksler and WTT are the kinds of experts that put your mind at ease, knowing your precious baby is in good hands. After learning that the suspected WLA engine did, in fact, have all kinds of rare and valuable WLDR racing parts (especially those cylinder heads), the Bikes & Beards guys made the extremely smart choice to leave it in Walksler’s hands for a full rebuild.
