Refined, Defined, but still slightly UnCivilized!

Now we get the party started! Take the whole mess apart, apply lots of paint remover, solvent, sandpaper, bondo, primer, more sandpaper, more bondo, more primer, glazing putty, lotsa paint, lotsa clear coat, WoooHoooo!

Tank from a 75 ct, front forks from same. Nice smooth black paint, taller bars, better headlight,speedo,grips. Santa Rosa style seat, forward pegs, custom cable kits, chrome shocks shortened for ride height. Down swept exhaust with fishtail. Leather bags for covers, and a custom plate and tail light bracket.

What better place to put all those pesky wires, getting the braided stainless steel covering into that hole around the wires was kinda fun, but well worth the effort!

I drilled a 1/2 hole on the left side front lower body, right above the motor and enlarged the original hole on the right so i could run the coil wire thru one and both fuel lines thru other.I modified the battery cover several times trying to find the "look", never did,,I always wanted some kinda place to stash stuff, tools, parts, papers, maby a beer, started looking for some kinda soft bag, and just thru the size I needed I found out lots of fork bags where that size!!

Lots of body work here, ground down welds, fixed the bad ones, reinforced, blended, smoothed, and some of it you may never see! It really needed foot pegs alittle further forward, not easy on this kinda frame! We tryed to think of way without attaching to the tubes! Back to reality, gotta attach to the tube, this is the fastest, easiest,,hardly any fab work way to do it,,re attach the stock skid plate and weld foot pegs to it! And it looks great! look the angle of the rear shocks and the front down tubes on the chrome skid plate match! All I had to do was fab out a small plate with 2 holes to match the 75ct skid plate holes (68ct skid plate attaches vertical and the 75 horizontally) and weld it to the bottom of the lower tube, it was pure luck that the exhaust pipe cleared the skid plate! I used the old mount for the spring bracket on the now missing center stand for the muffler mount. The fishtail is from a Harley aftermarket tip, I just cut off the fin and about 1/8 of the of the pipe where it attached to the pipe and just spot welded it on top of the muffler. Looks lots better like this,,not what I imagined, but good for now. I don't think I will ever really be "done" with this project, I may abandon further improvements!

I know running without a front fender is hard on frame paint and anything else this sandy pavement will throw up on the bike, but that old, fat, British tire looks nice hangin way out there all naked! The 2inch chrome speedo and mount worked out well using a universal mirror mount to stick it to the bars. Nice visored chrome headlight with a standard H4 bulb, I found a H4 6V 35/35 watt on eBay for like 8 bucks!

Up top here you can see the cut down seat springs, because I changed tanks and welded the neck on lower, the angle was low in the front. Making the seat a good angel ended up with almost no springs! Had to leave them on there no matter how short, cause it was getting awfully black back there. Only 1 1/8 rear travel. I now have to really watch for potholes, dips, speed bumps, and ANY puddles! This is not a bike for riding in the rain.