This is going to be cool Hal, with your skills and the parts you've already assembled it'll kick ass.
I'm glad someone has volunteered to ride this fucker! I've ridden the CB450 a combined total of 19 blocks since April. This weekend Duane Ballard, Wes Drelleshak and I are working on it, however, so I hope to find my penis before the Street Chopper party in two weeks.
Thanks again for all the help. I talked to Jason at Sacred Steel last night, and he's pretty pumped on the copper tank for this beast. I can't wait to see what he dreams up!
Anyways I have some 41mm fork tubes and a pair of stock sliders aswell as a pair of chrome sliders.
Get some mid or narrow glide trees and machine them for the big tubes!
Jaymes at BMK has built a solid reputation in the bike paint game, and I'm flattered that he's willing to have anything to do with my little project.
I've told Jaymes about the copper tank from Sacred Steel as well as my ideas for how to paint it, and I just know he will hit it out of the park. I've seen his work on BF Josh's Triumph, and it is top notch. For my own paint, I'm thinking little bits of raw copper showing through the art and artistry in strategic locations, either as keylines and pin stripes, or perhaps little splashes of coppery goodness to tease and tantalize the senses of everyone who gazes upon what is rapidly becoming the finest communal chopper build since Huge King's ten-man clusterfuck on the Discovery Channel many (blue) moons ago. Whatever BMK Jaymes choose to do, you can be assured of its visual quality and stylistic dopeness. Having always been a powdercoat kind of guy, I'm not known for the high-end cosmetics on most of my builds. Jaymes will change all of that on the ChopCult SpartanKiller™
I'm in.
Foot Clutch & brake pedal right? If so I'll do a jockey shifter too. It'll be all nice like a 13 piece bedroom set.
I know shifter, brake pedal.
I WAS thinking shifter & brake pedal on the mids, but now BCM has me thinging...
what about hand clutch on the jockey shifter, a la AZ Nick's sweet green shovel?
Am I man enough for such a set-up?
Will radical hand controls of this nature force me to ride even less?
And what the hell is a 13-piece bedroom set?
Stay tuned for more news as it develops.
(BTW, I'm visiting Hippy Killer Garage next week to lay down cash advance for the motor. Has anyone seen the motor in Kutty's Plum Smuggler? This photo doesn't show the detailing, but there's gun stock-style hand engraving all over the rocker boxes and engine cases. Badass...
This probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway:
These are the bars I'm going to use on the SpartanKiller:
I loved what Kim Boyle did with a set of Low Drags on Pat's Ironhead. BCM dechromed those bars, but I'm going with black ED. No dimples of course, and what levers I run remains to be seen. Probably nothing on the clutch side (KB and Rudehog are talking me into jockey shift/foot clutch), and my usual bored-out MX master cylinder and Biltwell throttle on the right.
13 piece bedroom set = a dozen rubbers & a sleeping bag. You told me that joke?
Do the jockey shift, it's fun & takes about 10 min to get used to. Plus it might keep George from throwing a ball peen hammer through the garage wall once he finds out your putting an evo motor in his frame.
Figure out what Pegs & rear master your going to use, that'll help me out considerably.
[QUOTE=Halwade;15502]I WAS thinking shifter & brake pedal on the mids, but now BCM has me thinging...
what about hand clutch on the jockey shifter, a la AZ Nick's sweet green shovel?
Am I man enough for such a set-up?
Will radical hand controls of this nature force me to ride even less?
I know what a 13-piece bedroom set is, my friend.... I was baiting our fair readers.
Re: rear M/C, definitely a Harley Sportster take-off, late model. the kind with plunger on the front, banjo hole on the back, flat top and two holes through the side for mounting to a plate beneath and between the trans and motor. Just like the Master Gator set-up from years gone by.
Re: pegs, dirt bike take offs, as always. I'll try to get some Kawasaki pegs from Mitch's scraps next week, or just buy some online.
Any motocross guys out there have modern takeoff MX pegs they want to sell?
Re: Jockey Shift; still on the fence about this one, but I'm warming up quickly. Will advise after I set on the bike and see where everything is going to fall...
The bike will have front brakes, so I'm not worried about foot clutch...
Going to Kutty's to talk about motor next week. This will determine our pace and haste considerably.
Nick rides that hand clutch/shift bike with amazing accuracy and I don't think he's a trained circus ninja. You can do it! Put a proportioning valve on linked brakes and think how clean your bars will be with an internal throttle...
I'd given up on internal throttles after my first build (all bikes since then have been 7/8" dirt bike hand controls), but Billdozer has me rethinking my stance. Well, that and the Biltwell bars I want to use are 1" only.
The product shown above is by Nash, and retails for $209. Anyone got a better line on price, or a spare kicking around that they're will to sell on the cheap?
Nash throttle sounds sweet, They have a 20% Halloween sale right now, I put one in a cart it said $182.20 Shipped.
They have a lefty too, if you really want to make it a challenge to ride.
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re: the Nash Sticky throttle, a buddy has one on his bike, he loves it, says it's like having cruise control,"just don't spaz and forget to un-cruise control it."
i have nothing else to offer, other than this is gonna be a sweeeet deal.
a communal build on a forum using only members and advertisers as your suppliers, genius man, genius.
I dont know if this will add any "seasoning" to the build but the fork tubes and sliders I'm sending you went on the EDR07 and the Gypsy run 07..........
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