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  • corn
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2010
    • 117

    Sick of Sportsters yet?

    I didnt think so!

    I started on this project a few years ago and am finally getting close. I wanted the stance and seat height of a rigid but wanted to keep the shocks for my aging back. I cut it to pieces and changed the shock location, stretched the swingarm and the backbone. I got rid of the stock downtubes made the oil tank and battery tray under the swingarm & a bunch of other crap.

    Im at the stage of wire, fire and ride and it will be done. Well they are never really done and I never did a build thread for it so heres a photo dump of where my '03 Sportster is at...

    Day one...


    Day 10ish. Didnt take long to be tired of this...


    Soooo out came the sawsall...





    Then some small details...




    Im almost done boring you now...



  • coldsmokejr
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2010
    • 638

    #2
    Oh sweet baby Jesus, that things fuckin great!!!

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    • tokes61
      • Mar 2024

      #3
      only.... thing id change is the garage . would look better in mine , nice scoot

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      • NHMike
        • Mar 2024

        #4
        I would like to make sweet, sweet love to your Motorsickle.

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        • roush360r
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2011
          • 255

          #5
          fucking sick. whats that exhaust? it looks like an old school dirt car exhaust

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          • GJRider
            Junior Member
            • May 2010
            • 16

            #6
            Yea that bike is pretty sweet! Definately has a great look

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            • corn
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2010
              • 117

              #7
              Originally posted by roush360r
              fucking sick. whats that exhaust? it looks like an old school dirt car exhaust
              Made it. Too cheap to buy anything.

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              • roush360r
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2011
                • 255

                #8
                well looks awsome. sorry i spend to much time around dirt cars, the girlfriend races.

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                • LDNCLR
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2009
                  • 993

                  #9
                  the extra wheel base does SO MUCH for that bike. sweet!

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                  • AtomicAddiction
                    Senior Member
                    • Jul 2011
                    • 133

                    #10
                    I really dig that exhaust. Where did you pick up the tubes? Is it powder coated or high temp engine paint?

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                    • LAMF
                      Senior Member
                      • Jul 2010
                      • 217

                      #11
                      thats a cool swingarm chop man

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                      • billdozer
                        • Mar 2024

                        #12
                        Let's get some details on those engine mounts and the ribs on the cam cover...

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                        • Lennin
                          • Mar 2024

                          #13
                          Nice bike! did you make that motor mount your self?

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                          • corn
                            Senior Member
                            • Feb 2010
                            • 117

                            #14
                            Originally posted by billdozer
                            Let's get some details on those engine mounts and the ribs on the cam cover...
                            I scratch made the mounts from flat iron stock. The fins are just alumi-lead and shaped. Im no aluminum welder & knew Id warp and ruin it If I tried welding them. I pounded the velosity stack out of a piece of scrap exhaust pipe and painted it to look like anodized aluminum. Made the Tbars from some scrap 1" DOM, cut down the stock eyebrow, made the seat pan and had Jarod at HardLuck cover it. I bought a front fatboy wheel (because they are cheaper) and machined some spacers, drilled and tapped out the bolt holes so it would work on the rear. Whipped up a choke cable mount, I needed a frame jig, so I made that too. Im broke so Ive got to be a cheap ass and use what I find laying around...






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                            • corn
                              Senior Member
                              • Feb 2010
                              • 117

                              #15
                              And to slow up progress even more, Im in the process of building this at the same time...

                              Ive been snooping around and posting a bit, so I figure Id better start my own build threads. Building an XS chop and a Sporty at the same time, so building goes slow. Ill start at the beginning. I bought an 81 XS with 2200 miles on it, in pieces from a guy that was going to build a chopper but gave up and salvaged the title.

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