The Viking wheel is a real eye-catcher that offers a lot of attitude.

Complete the custom look with a Viking chrome belt pulley and rotor.

Your customers can buy a full line of Viking accessories, too.

Carriage Works’ new Spider wheel features an ultra-clean, classic design.

The Spider chrome belt pulley is a perfect match to its wheel.

eautiful, aren’t they? The Spider and the Viking are the two newest from Carriage Works, and these wheels—along with their style-matched rotors and pulleys, are going to be popular. They’ll find their way onto all sorts of Harleys, too, used in every application from straight-on OE-replacements for a mild custom Fat Boy or dresser to the wildest set of wheels picked for a ground-up custom. They’re available in all the sizes to do it, too, everything from a stock 16-inch diameter to up-sized 18-inch wheels, or even 21-inch x 2.15-inches skinny. All the rear widths are here, as well, everything from stock-spec to a big 18 x 8.5 and now 18 x 10.5.
     Just don’t get the two styles mixed up, and any confusion as to which is which won’t be coming on your part. See, the call-outs labeling these two in the 2004 FatBook, the identifying text under the pictures, has been switched. On pages 910 and 912, where it says “Spider” we’re actually looking at the “Viking,” and vice-versa. The proofreader responsible for this has been dealt with. He’s had the keys to his Harley taken away and will be forced to ride a Vespa down Main Street at Bike Week.
     Catalog confusion aside, keeping these two straight in your head is easy. The Spider features an ultra-clean classic design, a tidy, non-directional pattern. The Viking, on the other hand, has attitude. This one features that “mis-directional” appeal, a lot like the popular Carriage Works Hurricane. It’s an eye-catcher, a wheel challenging the mind to decide the true rotational-direction its features create. The Viking’s “spiked” look brings to mind another Carriage Works wheel, the Riptide, but in a more detailed approach. Got it? Take a look at both wheels, and you’ll have no problem.
     And these two are Carriage Works tough. They’re rotary-forged, and like every Carriage Works design have been tested for structural integrity, loaded to 2,000 pounds and rotated for three million cycles. A torsion test subjects the wheels to simulated hard starts and stops, too. Plus, Carriage Works wheels are routinely put to a Cass test, 16 hours of salt spray in a harsh environment to make sure the chrome stays where it’s supposed to be and stays corrosion-resistant. That Carriage Works chrome, incidentally, comes from the same plater who does the OE work for Harley-Davidson; the color and luster matches a Harley’s stock plating.
     Want to really finish off the look? Besides the style-matched rotors and pulleys, Carriage Works has matched point covers, derby covers and air cleaners to complete the wheel theme. That’s all in the FatBook, too, along with 58 unique applications of Carriage Works wheels, everything from stock-replacement to custom. Just keep these two newest ones straight in your mind—even if that proofreader couldn’t!

In addition to rotors, pulleys and wheels, there are Spider derby covers, point covers and air cleaners.