Bob Alford

Bob Alford was transplanted to Southern California in early 1955 at the age of 5. By age 8 he had already been exposed to and "HOOKED" by "THE CUSTOM CAR BUG" and by age 14, he was being mentored by a few of the local "CUSTOM GURUS" in the Oxnard, Ventura area and was already producing some of his early custom paint work,

Bob has produced quite a number of Rods and Customs along the way including a pair of Custom Knuckleheads built by him and long time friend Ed Breedlove, who we think is a distant cousin to Craig Breedlove, also famous for his endeavors at "The Bonneville Salt Flats". The Knuckleheads were built as twins and were appropriately named "The V TWINS", and were featured in an article and the front cover of "Custom Bike Magazine" in August of 1982,

It was around this time that Bob was introduced to Kenny Lyon by a mutual friend, Bill Holliday of Holliday's Performance & Harley Davidson Repair, in Camarillo Ca. Bill was an Ultron synthetic oil dealer and at the time was sponsoring Bob's front engine Jr. Fuel Dragster and was also sponsoring Kenny's V4HD Bonneville bike. When Bob & Kenny met and Bob saw "THE BIKE" for the first time, he told Kenny that he wanted one and that someday he would have one. Bob was asked to apply the paint job on the V4HD bike and did so with pleasure. Shortly thereafter Bill Holliday was killed by an "IDIOT" in a cage (car), and the last time Bob and Kenny saw each other was at Bill's funeral. "The Good News" is that Bob & Kenny have teamed up once again on the "TWIN V HD BONNEVILLE" project and the rest is and will be history.

Kenny Lyon

Kenny Lyon became interested in motorcycles at a very young age because of his fathers love for riding and racing on and off road. It seems as though it ran in the Lyon family blood line because his Great Grandfather was riding "MOTOR BIKES" (as they were called in those days) as early as 1915, but gave up riding after having an accident with a very early model cage (car). He decided that there were too many cars on the road and it wasn't safe for motorbikes.

By age 6 Kenny was riding a 3 wheel Cushman scooter that his dad had built a home made fiberglass body for and had modified the throttle plate so as to restrict the engine to half throttle, in hopes of keeping Kenny out of trouble. Well it wasn't long before Kenny figured out how to by-pass the throttle stop and tune the carb for maximum power and that's when he got into some DEEP DOO-DOO.

By the time he became a young man Kenny was starting to become involved with a group of guys that were running at the Bonneville Salt Flats and Kenny was to be able to learn and work along side guys like Bob George, Waldo Stakes and "Big John" Petri. Bob George had been running various combinations of multiple Harley engines with the Jammer Streamliner team and had done quite well setting some pretty fast records along the way. At some point Bob offered Kenny the pieces necessary to build the V4HD engine for his attempt at a record.

In 1980 Easyriders Magazine© did a feature article on the bike titled "DOUBLE TROUBLE" and the legend was born. Easyriders© did a follow up article on the bike in 1982 and sometime shortly afterward the bike was stolen and missing for about a year and by "THE GRACE OF GOD" the bike was found almost intact and the culprits responsible for the theft went to jail. Thanks to the assistance of Performance Machine the Bonnenville Racer has been rebuilt and is in the final stages of restoration allowing it to be displayed at various motorcycle events.

Bob Alford had helped Kenny on the V4HD bike project and after many years of being out of touch with each other Kenny Lyon and Bob Alford have teamed up once again in an effort to set the custom motorcycle industry on it's ear. Kenny has since given Bob all of the pieces and parts which were developed for the Generation II engine and along with numerous technological advancements Bob and Kenny are about to reveal Generation III to the public.