Bike coming along, details, details, bloody horn too big n bulky for project - time to continue the hunt, custom ally bits looking good, footpegs - hmm not sure about - they have now been lowered and inch and follow the lines of the frame - stupid knobbly tire has to go, cant wait to get the speedmaster on it - they look so much better. Felt weird to sit on it, pretty wobbly feeling but that work itself out as bolts get tightened! bring on the paint!!!!!!


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Givin the horn!

Picked up a decent looking Nikko horn, turned out better than i thought as it has the cool fog horn type opening, just need a battery to test it out now..


Ignition switch is going to have a ally housing that matches the risers and exhaust tips.

Found my License plate holder too!

I've been umming and arring about what to do for this, really wanted something light weight and most of the stuff on the market is heavy duty steel and is way over engineered - found this from the same guy as the engine mounts (maunds) - cheap as chips ($30 incl p&p) and with the old school lucas style light it'll all look good and clean.

New additions

Finally went for it and picked some engine mounts, decent polished aluminium stuff - works out cheaper than building your own or having ones made for you - it'd cost me $50 just to get them polished - course could have done it myself but heck now is not the time to be learnin'

Movin' along..

Working to new deadlines, hoping to get bike ready for tear down by Xmas and ready for paint by January - decided on new red paint scheme with light gold graphics topped off with blue and gold pin striping - going the full hog and having frame molded 70's style which should look really cool.

Lots of Ebaying and part buying in an effort to get all things ready for Rex, rear tail light taken lots of searching for; ultimately plumped for a Lucas tail rectangular light with aluminium license plate which will polish up great.

Exhaust tips and matching ignition housing being made this month and fingers crossed will add to the overall polish of the bike :D

Progress again.. MIG rules

So, stopped all progress and bought some old school magazines from the 70's - cost me about $100 but it was worth it - it was good to see where styles had come from and how little it actually changed, people are either trying to get hold of original parts or replicas, theres little advancement - but thats why its a old school chop right?

Anyway, spent the last of the chopper fund on a MIG welder from Norther Tool company, LCD mask, cart, hammer, DVD, books etc - figured that I'd be able to progress faster with my own welder and low and behold did. Bought some stainless 304 1 3/4" pipes and some donor headers and tack welded myself a new exhaust system (did plenty of test welds first :P) course one pipe went well, the other no so, took me 3 attempts and I think my tack welding was too heavy duty - took some effort to get that shit off!

Also noticed the bars looked too wide, so took 3" off either end and they look much better.

back it up

Ugg, this last month not made great progress, jumped the gun having the gas tank fitted (lesson learnt) and once i got the engine in with forks on and set etc, the tank looked way too big - turns out my photoshop comp had the tank at too small a scale - ho hum, of to ebay we go.
In the meantime also think the new front wheel is too heavy and i crushed my middle finger pretty good while trying to fit the forks. Still the part i didnt do looks good and the enigne looks spanking new almost.