The Chopper Compendium

Or in others words, the Japanese whore that gets me by until the other one is done.........

Wasnt really looking for another bike, but watched the price drop on this from 1200, to 600, then 300, so the wife bought it for me for my birthday. Cb400 with 10 over forks. Came with 3/4 of another bike.
By the time I sold off a bunch of the spare shit, I was into it for almost nothing.





First thing was to get it out of the clouds.



Big big is over 9' long, this one is 8'1"

It came with a set of 650 wheels, so they went on, bigger drum out back, took a ton of monkeying around to make them fit with sleeves and spacers, and the front still isnt perfect, but it works.........
Drill a bunch of speed holes.




Originallly I slapped some upside down bars on, built some controls, and kept the cobbled together hardtail, front fender out back and some chain to hold it all together.



Didnt like the big tank so scooped a 50 tank



Slapped some paint on everything, and a cop pillar spotlight for a headlight

Did I say its tiny?

Got offered a free photo shoot from a photog I ]know, so decided to ax the back end.



Completely unconvetional, just kind of put it together how I saw fit.




New exhaust and a kickstand




Some blingish paint.



z bars and some awesome bmx grips



Some new controls




Then the wife decided the old dry rotted tires where crap and ordered me some new skins



Which I proceeded to knock the nipples of of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY7C6l-4 ... 4-overview

And this is kind of a stock to now........Makes me chuckle.
After I was done, I tallied up all the receipts. Cost of bike, brand new tires, paint, consumables, tried not to leave anything out............And barely broke $600.

And this was the reason for the rebuild.........

New pics here too Friend! YES!

These guys and gals comment more on helping cats thru problems here! Not a big place of just stroking egos and such like other places friend?

I have learned so much here man! You will be a Great Asset to here I know as well!

Look thru this place you will see so much info here!

A springer with chain handlebars?

Build your own version?

http://chopperhandbook.com/rockers.htm

I want to build a springer for it, maybe once I'm done the other bike. Would fix the geometry issues I have with the rake.
For now its fun to ride and was cheap, so the hydraulic will stay untilI geet around to it.

for 300 bucks, how can ya go wrong? looks like you're having a great time with it too, which is what it's all about, eh?

by all means, keep at it!

-dan

Adjusting the clutch so I can go for a rip.......

Instagram



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Hm. Cant embed, but at least its full screen


www.youtube.com/embed/crNrbG91upg

Turned out great!