These blogs are from some of the metric motorcycles that I have and that I am building
Monday, November 21, 2011
****1987 Honda shadow 700 chopper junkyard save****
I found this 1987 Honda shadow threw a friend that owned a little motorcycle repair shop in socal. It had benn down preaty hard and at first I had thought. It would be a quick and simple short chop with alittle straighting here and there
.Well once I started to get in to it well all I had left was a head tube and the lower shaft drive stock mount. Well hell I sed I ges I'm building a frame and it started there .Before to long I had a full custom shadow chopper frame. I moved the head tube 4" out and 3" up wich made her a low bitch .and wen it came to mounting the shaft drive mid section it took some fancy tube and plating. With the big 700 v-twin Honda motor the carbs are side by each write on top so I made the main tube radius and fit it as close as I could to the carbs wile still beaing able to take them off without pulling the motor. After adding various gussets and tubes to up hold the integrity of the frame I started with the custom forward controls such as a custom foot break and shifter also custom foot pegs. Then by skinning down the wiring I built a ignition box to hide all the relays and ignitors .then moved to the back and found a old front fender I had and chopped it up and worked it on the pleneshing hammer to make it fit then tabbed up a sissy bar with bullet mounts to the frame. After all that I custom built a seat I call "the nut pad" and had it wrapped. I still have more to do yet I'm trying to decid if I'm gona build a Springer front end I dont know hummm probably!!!!
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