cafe? chop? bag? XR? a 96 project
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12-18-2008 | 05:32 PM
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cafe? chop? bag? XR? a 96 project
thoughts, opinions, ideas needed for taking a perfectly good 1200 and committing "harley kari".
This will be the project I learn to weld, fabricate, wire, and paint on....
Lucky Aint I?
So please post some pics of ideas... mild to wild... whatever you might be willing to be a rah rah section for me to completely document this transformation for this forum.
Lemme Have It!
This will be the project I learn to weld, fabricate, wire, and paint on....
Lucky Aint I?
So please post some pics of ideas... mild to wild... whatever you might be willing to be a rah rah section for me to completely document this transformation for this forum.
Lemme Have It!
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12-18-2008 | 06:15 PM
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everyones does bobbers.... and choppers...
lots of people do cafe bikes but you never see them around as often. and there is a lot more ability to do something unique, bobbers are limited to flat black and red, cafe style has so many options. i got an entire folder of cafe sportsters pictures, i could upload a few for you too see if your interested
lots of people do cafe bikes but you never see them around as often. and there is a lot more ability to do something unique, bobbers are limited to flat black and red, cafe style has so many options. i got an entire folder of cafe sportsters pictures, i could upload a few for you too see if your interested
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12-18-2008 | 07:01 PM
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everyones does bobbers.... and choppers...
lots of people do cafe bikes but you never see them around as often. and there is a lot more ability to do something unique, bobbers are limited to flat black and red, cafe style has so many options. i got an entire folder of cafe sportsters pictures, i could upload a few for you too see if your interested
lots of people do cafe bikes but you never see them around as often. and there is a lot more ability to do something unique, bobbers are limited to flat black and red, cafe style has so many options. i got an entire folder of cafe sportsters pictures, i could upload a few for you too see if your interested
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12-18-2008 | 07:22 PM
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I was going over some sites from google about cafe sportsters.... intersting ideas... but I worry that the cafe is a smaller mans game. Im 6'4" and 260ish. Hell my night train feels small on me sometimes! I cant imagine me looking like much more than a gorilla on a mini bike if I go cafe.
I mean... why not go EXTREMELY small? Super narrow tires, tank, fenders and everything else? Ive seen widened... fattened... even lengthened...havent seen a Narrowed Sporty.... have you?
I mean... why not go EXTREMELY small? Super narrow tires, tank, fenders and everything else? Ive seen widened... fattened... even lengthened...havent seen a Narrowed Sporty.... have you?
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12-18-2008 | 07:24 PM
cafe NO question! i ride with a cat with a cafed out 883... just sick! he did alter his seat pan to lift up the back end to run 13in gass shocks and give him more of an agressive riding possition...if i can ever get his *** to call me back ill post a picture for you... we used a GSXR tail piece to mold in his cafe seat... so the top portion you can either clip on a seat of have the top fairing... looks sick... but then he shot it all flat black and completely crapped on everything we spent hours doing... cafes SHOULD BLING in my opinion
as far as you being tall... it is all about how you set up your riding possiton with rear sets... you can make fully adjustable rear sets and be golden! no matter how tall you are... the cafe i am building now will have adjstable rear sets so when the girly wants to ride it i can make sure she really sits into the bike so when she is knee draggin her turns she does not have to come up on the bike to shift/brake... this way she can ride as agressive as she wants... and so can i when i want to roll it
as far as you being tall... it is all about how you set up your riding possiton with rear sets... you can make fully adjustable rear sets and be golden! no matter how tall you are... the cafe i am building now will have adjstable rear sets so when the girly wants to ride it i can make sure she really sits into the bike so when she is knee draggin her turns she does not have to come up on the bike to shift/brake... this way she can ride as agressive as she wants... and so can i when i want to roll it
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12-18-2008 | 07:36 PM
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12-18-2008 | 08:45 PM
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Took an 883r and made it a bobber... So live damn it live for me clip ons, and the polar opp. of forward contols are a must... Oh ya pics too please.
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12-18-2008 | 08:55 PM
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everyones does bobbers.... and choppers...
lots of people do cafe bikes but you never see them around as often. and there is a lot more ability to do something unique, bobbers are limited to flat black and red, cafe style has so many options. i got an entire folder of cafe sportsters pictures, i could upload a few for you too see if your interested
lots of people do cafe bikes but you never see them around as often. and there is a lot more ability to do something unique, bobbers are limited to flat black and red, cafe style has so many options. i got an entire folder of cafe sportsters pictures, i could upload a few for you too see if your interested
You couldn't be more wrong.Flat black and red does not make a bobber.Thats what all the young guys seem to think these days......you know ,this "new old school" ****.Flat black ,red wheels, and white walls...........bam...........it must be a bobber.I know what you're saying, but that ain't a bobber and you're definately not limited to black and red.The true bobbers have none of that.Sporties make great chops but when it comes to bobbers leave that for the Knucks, Pans,and Indians
As far a chopping a Sportster, the possibilities are endless.It's all up to you and how creative you wanna get.
I know you like the cafes Joe........I do too..........but don't knock the chops.........you can make them as "unique" as you want to
I say ..............strip that bike down to bare bones,speedo,tach,turn signals,horn,everything!....and then some!.....narrow springer(or girder)...a little rake even?heh?...21" laced spool up front w/Avon Speedmaster,16"/130 in the back,bates style solo seat(no springs unless you go rigid),cut the rear fender way down,get rid of the giant tail/brake light license plate... area... and get a cool light....mount the plate to the primary cover or passenger peg (on the side somewhere....it doesn't matter!)and loose the front fender too.....shave the fender tabs,new risers and high bars and then you'll have a good start.Maybe a "weld on" hard tail?....if you like that kinda thing.........get the bike down real low...you know?Maybe some heavy flake for the peanut?....heh?
You're probably better off just figureing it out as you go along cause they never turn out the way you plan anyway