Choppers
#21
03-16-2011, 05:45 PM
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I have a 2008 Harley Davidson Rocker C, which is considered by many media types as a "Factory Production Inspired Chopper."
#23
03-16-2011, 07:25 PM
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From the 70s....chopped Sporty, different paint, rigid, raked, 16 rear drum x 21 spool or mini drum front, girder or springer, Mikuni carb, chrome where appropriate
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#24
03-16-2011, 07:36 PM
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In the dictionary under "chopper" there's a picture of this bike in the margin, pretty sure. Panz if you did this, ya done it right.
#26
03-16-2011, 09:19 PM
Stretched backbone, downtube stock size same as stock (+/- 1 inch), raked front end. My Big Dog Mastiff, a pro street, has a solid mounted engine.
#27
03-16-2011, 09:58 PM
Wow! What a great bike from the period...before they got overdone and excessive. Whatever became of it?
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03-16-2011, 11:55 PM
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petom...thanks for the compliment. It was a nice ride. Covered most of Kali, Nevada and Arizona on it. Carried a 1 gal gas can on long rides because I never mapped out destinations. Started off with a spool hub until the locals tagged me and said I needed a front brake in order to comply with the law. Switched to a Hallcraft mini-hub.
Paint was done by "Tony-The-8-Ball" (long since expired). On the tank I had a depiction of a rat about to get taken out by an eagle. Of course what the eagle does not see is that the rat has a cocked-n-locked 45 behind his back. Graphics included the pic of this and the words "The Last Great Act Of Defiance". Got some more pics some place that I need to dig out and post.
Guess for me (and others) it was like this need to separate ourselves and just be a little bit different.
warrconn, I sold it to a guy in San Francisco in order to build/finance a 51 rat-pan.
Heck today the definition of a "chopper" is blurred somewhere in terminology afforded to builders like Jesse James, Arlen Ness and OCC. But there was a time, a time when magazines like Easy Rider hadn't sold their souls to the corporate/advertising Devils and you would sit around in a 2-car garage with your best friend, late into the night, thumbing through a mag trying to figure what the next best improvement you were going to make that would make your bike the "coolest" around. And the best part was that it wasn't going to cost you your first-born child!
Somewhere we lost that and with it the true "chopper" mentality. But that is just the ramblings of an old man...
Paint was done by "Tony-The-8-Ball" (long since expired). On the tank I had a depiction of a rat about to get taken out by an eagle. Of course what the eagle does not see is that the rat has a cocked-n-locked 45 behind his back. Graphics included the pic of this and the words "The Last Great Act Of Defiance". Got some more pics some place that I need to dig out and post.
Guess for me (and others) it was like this need to separate ourselves and just be a little bit different.
warrconn, I sold it to a guy in San Francisco in order to build/finance a 51 rat-pan.
Heck today the definition of a "chopper" is blurred somewhere in terminology afforded to builders like Jesse James, Arlen Ness and OCC. But there was a time, a time when magazines like Easy Rider hadn't sold their souls to the corporate/advertising Devils and you would sit around in a 2-car garage with your best friend, late into the night, thumbing through a mag trying to figure what the next best improvement you were going to make that would make your bike the "coolest" around. And the best part was that it wasn't going to cost you your first-born child!
Somewhere we lost that and with it the true "chopper" mentality. But that is just the ramblings of an old man...
