First that uber kuhl surf shop and then a chopper!! You never cease ti impress sir. Brings me back to my custom bike days.
J
Nice rides man !!! All the old photos of me and my bikes are in Texas with my exes . Looks like you didn’t change the neck rake on your ride , mine were all similar , stock neck , fork extension . The other two were absolutely neck raked . Sold my bikes way , way back when . I did buy my son a mini chopper back in the 90’s ?
I’ll never forget my uncle who was a bike head and got me into bikes at a very early age , who anytime I went out ridin , he would always tell me " Son , never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly " .
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The guy that built the one on the bottom was an incredible mechanic and designer. The first bike he built was a Honda 305 scrambler that he built a hardtail frame for out of heavy wall conduit! For the Harley he stretched and raked the frame and extended the springer. On top of that his and mine were both suicide shifts, talk about a hand full to ride. Sadly he passed a number of years ago, but I still have mine, altho much changed. Wayne
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Very cool , so it’s still pretty much a bobber with the shifter . I started out as a kid on dirt bikes , Yamahas , Husveras [ sp ? ] moved up to Sportsters , rode em like dirt bikes , people thought I was crazy dirtin a Sportster , a tad too much power for the dirt , lol . Lemmie see I had a Norton , a BSA thumper and a few Trumphys , and always had a Sportster in some sort of condition or other . Always messin with them , changing the front fork , wasn’t a welder though so the frame neck had the factory rake , with the extended fork , put the front way up there . I’d put knobbies on Sportsters so I could dirt , always messin with something .Grew up in northwest Joisey always on mountain trails or dirt pits , always made bike camping trips to N.Y. , Seven Lakes Parkway , Harriman State Park . Hung out a lot in the bars on the N.Y. side of Greenwood Lake the old , you could drink at eighteen in N.Y , twenty one in Joisey , so we would make the runs up Skyline Drive to Greenwood lake from Oakland . Now ya got me rememberin all the dumb/cool/crazy shat I did as a pup .
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My young life was all about wanting a bike. My uncle rode Harleys after he came home from WW2, and every summer when we went to visit my grandma that was where I’d go to hang with him. My dad was anti guns and hated bikes, so naturally I was the rebel. He took me for my first ride and he and his son always had full dressers and I wanted one. My dad told me once, as long as I lived in his house, I’d never have a bike. I went in the Army in 71 and went to Nam. When I came home I bought a 450 Honda to ride on leave. Later my sister told me that my brother had reminded my dad what he said and he told him," he’s in the Army and and has been to Nam and he can do what he wants!" Never heard the story till years after dad died. We finally got together before he passed, so I’m glad. Any way, after that I had a trail bike, a Triumph, a BSA and finally my48 basket case and later a 50 which is what I still have. Sorry for the long story. Wayne
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Wearin my brown pants buildin this , … just in case . I might have to change the rake on the chassis neck , the front is sittin a little too high , I’ve seen worse tho . Back in the day when driveway bike monkeys put an extended fork on a factory frame [ like this monkey ] makes for a difficult ride .
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Yep you need a rake change unless the rider likes studying airplanes and clouds.
Not really , like I said , driveway/garage monkeys like meself back in the 60’s didn’t have the welding stuff to change the neck rake . The first pic is of a bike that had the neck rake adjusted for the extended front fork , see how the frame sits parallel with the ground , the rest of the pics are pretty much stock frames with extended forks , the front frame sits high or higher depending on how long the fork is .
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You callin’ me a monkey? ha ha Wayne
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Ook ook , ma brother …
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Alway try to NOT look like your photo on the post office wall …
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Great stuff guys, enjoy the nostalgia! The fork extension/frame angle works for me Glenn, just bc of the cycle’s purpose in your epic futuristic world. Just try not to stage it too close to the big lizard. 
Enjoy all your work Glenn, very refreshing!
Cheers 
Dave 
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Yeah you can see the angle on the frame in my first picture, not quite as severe as yours, but still tricky when you have to keep putting your feet up and down for the clutch and brake when stopping and starting. Always a balancing act, especially if you had a passenger who was always wanting to move around a lot! ha ha Wayne
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Yeah Wayne , my bike sat like yours , high in the front frame but not as high in the model I’m building , so I bit the bullit and did some surgery and raked the frame neck out so it sat about 40 degrees , give or take . Now it sits just fine . Still unsure about the rear fender/seat stowage and I’ve got to add the front brake cable but basically she’s done . Oh and I drilled out the neck and the top of the springer housing under the ape hangers and put a piece of wire in there so it’s fully steerable .
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That is stunning! Nice build and nicely coloured too.
Only suggestion would be to see if you can fit a holster of some sort towards the top of the front forks and under the handle bars. Given the situation they’re in, having a weapon close to hard whilst on the move, may be useful for them. I was thinking of a holster for a pistol or a sawn off shotgun. Suggestion only as it’s fantastic as is.
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This is crazy good, most of ours didn’t have a front bake, but a partner of mine, Country, always had a machete strapped to his front fork! Never knew what you’d see!! Wayne
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That’s an absolute gem, killer mascot too. 
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Thanks Sam , yup Sam , gonna figure a shotgun strapped to the front fork , maybe fashion a holster and pistol somewhere on the bike and some stowage , todays plan .
Thanks Wayne , I went with the 1940’s bicycle type pressure plate brake instead of a hydrolic system , yeah a machete or Katana would fit . I used to have a 25. cal pistol in a hideout holster under my Sportster seat . Yeah I know , not a total man stopper but you still wouldn’t wanna get shot in the face with it … condom principal , would rather have it and not need it than not have it and need it …
Thanks Tim , the skull and jawbone headlight came from an idea I had from this 1/1 scale bike .
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