Off brand chopper ID-need help
#21
That's exactly what is goin on...never had a tire bigger than a 130. It is a Black Cloud, found a guy at Midwest ran the #'s and says its an el bruto 113, 125/125 out of the box. Should work if I can get used to that stupid 10 inch wide contact patch. Also the trail measures almost 7 inches the way it sits. Going to add a set of 3 degree cups this weekend and see if I can get that back to a more reasonable number.
#22
#23
Well I was thinking of it all wrong, the cups move the stem. Essentially moving the neck for measuring purposes and increasing the trail. Never could wrap my head around all that without getting the book out. Guessin I'll ride it, with some taller wider bars it'll be fine, just a toy anyway.
#25
Well I was thinking of it all wrong, the cups move the stem. Essentially moving the neck for measuring purposes and increasing the trail. Never could wrap my head around all that without getting the book out. Guessin I'll ride it, with some taller wider bars it'll be fine, just a toy anyway.
2 bit's of advice if your open would be get a fender on it as I wouldn't want my nuts that close to a grinder and your not sure of the handling and second is either rig up a belt guard of some kind for that front pulley or start wearing tall boots and tuck that pants leg in, belt burn or worse on the back of that leg is no joke.
#26
Agreed, the belt burns from my last one were not forgotten! I will be making one soon. There was a kinda fender on it when I picked it up, not put on worth a damn, seat sucks too. I'm goint to start making a fender that is mounted to the frame, not the swingarm as it is now, tonight. Then I'll try my hand at a seat...Also got the calipers rebuilt over the weekend and tightened the neck, more than 5 turns out. No wonder it had a shimmy.
#29
If i recall too much trail makes the front heavy (floppy) at slow speed but will track straight and stable at higher speeds.
Last edited by Mi3ninos; 04-28-2015 at 05:57 PM.
#30
It's 38 degrees. I believe the frame is 8 up and 6 out. trail measures 6 1/2. it does go straight at speed. Parking lots suck.