I’m going to get my bike this weekend! Wooohooo! (My motorbike) I started building an old-school bobber years ago, and has been sitting, half-done, in a shed at the farm, collecting rust, bird-crap and dust for years.
This Christmas, Cin bought me a little welder, and I finally found a fuel tank for it at the wreckers, so I can drag it home and finally finish it, instead of leaving it 4 hours away at the farm. It’s a pretty cool project I think. I got an old bike off a friend, and stripped it and cut it up with a torch, and then basically started welding together what I wanted.
It’s 15 inches longer and about 18 inches lower than original. I cut the whole back end away and made it a hard-tail rear triangle. Getting it all straight was the real battle…I don’t honestly know if it will track straight or not…I can’t wait to find out. We’ll see how that goes…I’m not a rider, don’t even know how, and I’m not a wannabe, I just really dig building stuff, especially mechanical stuff, and I never did a bike before so what the hell.
I just have to put the wiring in (there’s nothing there, gonna have to do it trial and error); make a seat (one with springs!); build and mount all the foot and hand controls (haven’t decided on a suicide shifter or not – I reckon they call it that for a reason);rebuild the motor; then, finally, paint! I think I’m going WWII bomber-style paint, with the 40’s Memphis Belle type chick on the side.
The girls are gonna help me – they love to build stuff, so now that it will be at home it can be a family project. Giddyup!
