He brought over a rear fender. We initially thought about cutting it short, but it just looks way too cool long.
Also setup the mufflers he wants to use. I gotta say, these two things REALLY brought out the bike character. It's easy to see now what it's gonna end up. I fully expected a pro street/bobber kinda thing, but now with these parts, it brings in an old school kinda look.....which is perfect!
In the photo below, you can see the rear support tube I was thinkin of. Rolled 1" DOM. Looks nice in place
At the bottom of the fender, I'm going to French in three 4" led strips for the brake lights.
He engine is just so darn wide, these are tough to get good proportions I. The rear. You can only run so wide of tire, so it makes it look off. Adding the large mufflers adds some "weight" to the rear, which I feel really helps balance out the bike.
Were gonna go with a 28" sissy bar /fender brace. I'd love some ideas on a good looking issy bar to make here. I'd like to use 3/4" tube for this so he has enough girth to mount a bag to.
Also, with this fender, it's screaming for a luggage rack. Nothing extravagant, but the fender tells me one needs to be there.
Got some signals/tails that will mount on the fender right behind the seat. He's ordered a crazy lookin headlight from London that'll use the factory fork brackets (which is nice, less fab work) and amber signals for the front.
He also picked up some craigslist forwards. Mounting is going to be a PAIN. We've decided to go away from foot shift and go jockey shift on the left side, with clutch on the shifter.
He's got a list of things I need to finish Moch up.
The engine in the bike now is just for Moch up, he's building and ceramic coating an 1100cc for the bike.
We talked color scheme for the bike and I gotta tell ya, this thing is gonna turn some heads.
Sometimes I wonder why I spend so much time building these for everyone else. Cause every one I've built and sent away, I've wanted for myself
I think the fun part for me is working with the owners and incorporating their ideas. Things just seem to come out better with two brains brainstorming.
One of the local radio stations has a BIG car show they put on here in Denver every year, which is in August. So we've decided to make this the goal.
He's getting a Dakota digital speedo with every bell and whistle known to man. He also found an electronic fuel tank float/sensor out of some Honda brand that well mount in the tank and incorporate into the Dakota digital speedo for fuel level.
Need some input on the exhaust here. I'm trying to figure out a way to make the mufflers easily removable. I think I'll end up welding a few tabs to them (chrome is going away, ceramic coating) and mounting just the mufflers straight to the swingarm on each side. The swingarm is now stationary, however, the swingarm will need to drop to get the rear tire out. If I weld the headers solid to the mufflers, he'll have to completely remove the exhaust to get the rear tire out.
The way the forwards will mount, he'll have to remove those to get the headers off. Too much to remove just for a rear tire.
It might be easier just to remove the rear fender.
How do exhausts make that transition from tubing that slides into the muffler? I see band clamps, but is there some sort of gasket to prevent leakage?
My favorite view.
