That's one great looking bike. That's one heck of a massage[sm=smiley20.gif][sm=smiley20.gif]

 

Awesome bike.

 

Excellent job.
Just one dumb question. What is the purpose of the sissybar?
Tom

 

That is an amazing looking bike. You did a great job on that seat. Everything looks killer. Keep up the great work!

 

Fantstic bike, when you say fatten the rear tyre, did you just put a fatter tyre on your wheel or what?
I would love to fatten my rear end lol, but living in Sweden its too expensive to get the parts sent over,

 

Great job on the seat. You might be able to finance all your bike mods by making custom seats for the guys just from this site.

 

Great Job Chops! You are a craftsman supreme.

 

Thanks for all the props guys!!

I get encouraged to do stuff when I see it done by other ppl, if I can help anyone with their project shoot me an email. I saw where someone had posted tank stretch pictures on the internet, and would have never attempted it had I not seen it done.

As far as doing the seat, I was fully prepared to let a pro do it, but like I said it seemed like too much expense for the return. Believe me, I'm not ready to give up the day job just yet lol.

tmitchell - the sissy bar - yes how to mount the sissy bar, thatone bugged me a few days.
I have to have a sissy bar, to be able to use my bike to commute to work with it is a necessity- I strap my rucksack tothe barwhich has my laptopand other stuff. Plus if I make store runs I strapbags and stuff. I would prefer a quick disconnect, but I did not want all the hardware bracketry (like I had with my stock setup) obscurring my new curved struts. I still may come up with something different to quickly take it off, I just could not come up with anything at the time I was sending metal out to the chromer. I did however create a way to use only one bolt per side to hold the bar-running light-strut on.

Rick M, you don't need a new swingarm or caliper, but you do need a 5.5" rim. There is a fair amount of modifying you have to do; especially if you don't buy the fat tire kit- but it can be done in your home garage. I made my own fender from a fender blank, and had the struts made from a water jet from my template - again you don't need kits to do it but you have to have a plan. Do a search on the official fat tire thread or the fat tire build project thread I had going for more info.

Later....

 

Congratulations on your seat. It turned out really well. Nobody would cover it for less than $700? I can't get people to pay more than half of that for me to make them a hand tooled leather seat with kangaroo lacing and custom designs carved in it! The type of pan doesn't even come into question because they are mostly custom. I think I must beattractingthe wrong clientelle.

 

EFFING AMAZING !!!!

I wouldn't even know where to start when it comes to a needle and thread. AWESOME jobchops !!