Starting all over on the Chopper

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Alley Rat

Discussion Starter · Nov 24, 2010

This bike has been sitting for awhile now and it is killing me. Luckily I have my other bike so I am not completely down. Since I built my last set of pipes I have felt the need to really clean up my bike. For awhile I didn't take my time in my projects and just tried to get things done. It has been killing me to see my bike half a$$ed. So I have decided to tear it down and start over. I plan on getting a new tank, building new handle bars, new taillights, polishing things here and there, and maybe getting my exhaust and other pieces chromed. I just really want to make this bike super clean from here out.

This is how she is starting out.

Hacked some spare metal.

I cut off the square box on the top of the backbone and started cleaning all the welds

After a couple hours of messing around. I am to the point of no return. I am pulling the engine so I can get into all the nooks and crannys.

Of course I am gonna strip all this wiring and leave the bare minimum.

Stay tuned. I plan on hitting this everyday in some shape or form

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goddarddr

· #4 · Nov 24, 2010

will you be removing the swing-arm for maintance?

goddarddr

· #10 · Nov 27, 2010

Major Surgery going on here. so thats what a pile of motorcycle bones looks like. I'll be in the observation room watching the "Doc" bring him back to life. thanks Rat

goddarddr

· #17 · Nov 28, 2010

hard tails look more than great! but aren't they very uncomfortable to ride?

goddarddr

· #19 · Nov 28, 2010

what is a dropout?

goddarddr

· #28 · Dec 2, 2010

xmas break coming soon,you'll be in the garage. Is it hard to remove the swing arm? I need to take my swing arm off and do the grease maintance. I wished the swing arm didn't have those boom-a-rang looking solid braces on each side that the pivot bolt runs through.a more open rigid look but a soft feel which makes my older body happy.
Dave

goddarddr

· #30 · Dec 2, 2010

Ok,............it would be easy to do the valve clearance check / adjust with the engine out. I have never done one, but will this winter

goddarddr

· #32 · Dec 5, 2010

alot of work & progress. thanks for posting, good learnings for me.
Dave

goddarddr

· #35 · Dec 6, 2010

I got a feel for that frame grinding when I cut out the neck gusset,boxes on the support down tubes on my bike,
its hard work. pay off will be Good.

goddarddr

· #39 · Dec 6, 2010

The pieces we have cut off weren't important structure supports the neck gussett, fender strut supports/2-up seating, side cover brackets all secodary stuff(fat)

goddarddr

· #43 · Dec 8, 2010

Hey Rat, Is it difficult to take out the motor? I bet you are lookin forward to your holiday/ man cave time. I didn't like that hole on my bike either. I used a dremel tool with a cut blade & grinding stone in those tight places, That tool has been really useful

goddarddr

· #48 · Dec 16, 2010

like "Lucky Man" song says " You got a house and a piece of land"
Hope you got a man cave too

goddarddr

· #50 · Dec 17, 2010

i love my cave, its alot better than the patio I use to piddle under.

goddarddr

· #52 · Dec 26, 2010

I B lurking. How U do That

goddarddr

· #54 · Dec 26, 2010

assuming you will post your progress on the hard tail so I/we can see how its done

goddarddr

· #58 · Jan 14, 2011

Hey good to hear from you, you survived the "Alley" you rat

goddarddr

· #60 · Jan 15, 2011

that is quite a project. all the way from the frame up. wow thats confidence I admire and skill that myself and others can learn from. delaying gratification is a pain but is worth the outcomes. Having a chopper to ride and one to create is cool. you gettin any ride-N weather down there?

goddarddr

· #78 · Mar 23, 2011

did you cut 3 yellow wires too?

goddarddr

· #82 · Mar 25, 2011

lazer lights came today, they r very small/ tiny

, than I expected, can't wait see how bright they are,

goddarddr

· #85 · Apr 12, 2011

glad your back with summer vacation coming you'll be busy gettin back together. you got the bars?

goddarddr

· #108 · Jun 24, 2011

several times I have done the same when idling, but has always started right up after opening the valve,once my knee moved the valve half open and started cutting out when I was going down the road.

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