Another Sporty chopper build

[m2bueller]

Building up a '98 883 into a hardtail chop using TC Brothers weld on hard tail kit, oil bag, and battery box.

Here's the staring point.

Surgery begins. End of the first afternoon.

Going.

Going.

Gone.

[m2bueller]

Time to cut the frame.

Sorry, Pics of the cutting disappeared.

Lining up the hardtail

Bolted the engine back in. With the TC hardtail, You use the engine as the frame jig.
Slapped a temporary front end on to see what it looked like.

Mounted the tire. Realized after I had the tire on that I had it backwards on the wheel. Dismounted it, remounted it and pinched the tube in the process.
At this stage everything is in mock up because I don't have a good enough welder.
I'll be stripping it back down next week to take to a buddy's shop to TIG the frame and all the mounts.

[m2bueller]

Tacked on the battery box and oil bag mounts.

Just set the seat in place to see how it looks.

[m2bueller]

New front 21" wheel and tire. This time I didn't pinch the tube......I hope

Finally sitting at ride height.

Brown showed up with a set of Emgo 14" apes.
Not 100% sold on them yet. I'll wait and see when the Springer gets here.

[m2bueller]

Side view with the apes

Tacked on the seat pins

This is the tail light I'll be using. It's actually a side marker light from a 40" trailer.

I'll be rewiring it with this setup. It's a dual brightness LED in an off the shelf socket.
This will be the last post for this week. I start a 6 day run at work tomorrow. More next weekend.

[BHMike]

Looking good so far, can't wait to see it all done

[Yodhan]

I dig it. Those apes are cool.

[m2bueller]

Spent a very cathartic evening listening to good old rock and making metal shine. Doing everything by hand.
Not bad considering these forks had been rattle canned flat black.
One down one to go.
The Frame goes off Monday for welding. Spending the time cleaning up parts that I'm selling to fund the build.
Got a notice from my divorce lawyer that I owed another $1,000. So much for the Springer front end this week.

[BlackCloudSalvage]

Looking good. Keep it up!

[m2bueller]

More pics of the polished forks.

[m2bueller]

I got the frame welded up this week.
I think it looks pretty damn good.



The frame rails still need some cleanup. When I'm done you won't be able to see the welds at all.

[m2bueller]

[BHMike]

Diggin it

[OleDirtyDoc]

looking sweet

[m2bueller]

A couple of quick pics.