72 XLCH w/ low brow weld on hardtail

[shovel625]

Long time no post..

winter is approaching slowly and this year im going to build another xlch chopper.


I saw low brow released their weld on hardtail kit for ironhead sporties so im gonna jump on it and thats my winter project.

heres the bike, as it sat while i was building it. keeping all the parts i modified for a later build (narrowed fender, sectioned and shortened fender struts, seat pan, oil tank etc and the rear frame section-- i wanna do a single downtube swing arm ironhead frame, ben jeff style, in the future)

plans.

6 over 33.4
low brow weld on section
ben jeff t bars
21, 18 combo
narrowed hummer tank
seat?
pipes-ill make a set
magneto--- future plan
oil tank--- ill fab


etc etc ill keep this all updated



its

[dankmelater]

Nice, that's gonna be a rad chop. Had no idea LB started doing kits for ironheads, super rad. Those single downtime frames Ben Jeff makes are phenomenal. I've been so tempted to see if he'd do one for an evo sportster, it's such a cool look.

[shovel625]

Nice, that's gonna be a rad chop. Had no idea LB started doing kits for ironheads, super rad. Those single downtime frames Ben Jeff makes are phenomenal. I've been so tempted to see if he'd do one for an evo sportster, it's such a cool look.

me either, i was on the site the other day and it popped up under new items.

Right Bens stuff is insane. This chop has his bars on it, the swingarm frame i wanna do is completely inspired off the last few frames ive seen him produce

[shovel625]

few more pics, the shovels my daily last few are bars frame and motor

[shovel625]

Chnaged my direction up with the 72 xlch again. Was going to hardtail it but ive got a shovelhead frame in my jig currently that im building and ive been into the early 70s norcal look lately. So ive turned the sporty back in that direction.

[shovel625]

You can get a better view in the photos above of how i sectioned and shortened the fender struts. I cant take credit for the idea of doing it, I saw Arie Vee do it on an xlch he did for the Harley No Show bike Bad Blood that he built. But i did do the work to shorten, section and weld them back together.