The Chopper Compendium

yona wrote:"aperture"......?....Stop wasting time....the word " hole " only has 4 letters.......; P

I am English......you drill a hole and you cut an aperture.... any more arguments and I'll get the whips out

curt wrote:no wonder shes so fast her metal comes with premarked cut and fold lines

nice one Curt

So tonight I got the seatbase cut out and trial fitted.....then decided the rear fender didn't look right any more...

So I dug out an old one, quickly added a section down the middle to make it wide enough and put that on to see what it was like.... Note the rear wheel is adjusted as far forward as it will go .....

Let me know what you think of the rear fender guys - the other one is back 2 pages......

Maz xx

flare it up at the very rear

Like this? Just talking about the fender........ tucked away.

Hans has the pics...and good taste. But, with only 2 choices, page11 gets my vote if you trim some of the fat.

I like the style of the fender in the pic Hans posted. Tight to the tire. Probably very hard to mount to a single-sided swingarm.
The red fender just doesn't do it, looks all wrong.
The earlier fender is better, but looks too big to me, BUT, I am not the one with the vision of the completed bike
in their head.

If you run the red one, I would kick the wheel back some & trim the fender close to the end of the seat.

I agree , center the wheel in the arc of the fender and keep it neat !!

Awesome maz, glad to see your are makeing great progress again, hope you are feeling alot better.

Thanks guys, I did set the wheel way too far forward (trying to figure out the amount of adjustment on the eccentric) so its not positioned where it should be in relation to the fender.....

I'm still not sure what I want to do with the fender so I'll probably hold fire while I finish of the gas tank.....

Maz xx

What kind of light you going for?

Maxthegardener wrote:What kind of light you going for?

not sure yet, got a few options....this is a Domme-Punk bike after all, street-fighter motor, long girder front end, split top-tube diamond frame......

I'm probably gonna break all the taboos and upset just about everybody with this one....

AND I have yet to decide on the colour scheme...well actually I have already chosen a couple of options but now I'm not sure which..... so many choices

Maz xx

the bike is all angles but both guards are round
thats why the look wrong

triker_chewie wrote:the bike is all angles but both guards are round
thats why the look wrong

That got me thinking (always dangerous ) so I've design a new rear fender from flat steel which follows the lines of the rear seat support ......
I've started cutting out a template and hopefully get it made over the weekend...also found a suitable rear light which will work well with it.....

This bike is getting more and more Chop-fighter....a real junkyard bitch

Maz xx

Started cutting out the steel for the yokes for the new girder today, also did some more work on the tank...might take me a bit longer to do than I figured as I've taken on widening and repairing a tank for a good friend......

Maz xx

Had a very busy day out in the wrokshop fabricating panels for the new tank, may even get some pics done soon Biggest problem with this tank is fitting the aero-style filler as its the original Yammy one and requires a "sump" and breather system........trust me to do things the hard way....

Still working on my friend's tank and also machining up some billet exhaust finishers for another friend's 1340...... a woman's work is never done

Maz xx