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New Blog

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Chopper fest

Heading out to the Chopper fest and the Broken Spoke campground in Earl Wisconsin this weekend. Looking forward to just getting away.

I have been working on the bike alot and not riding nearly enough so I decided to throw the bike together and just get away for the weekend.

The rally is only a couple hundred miles from my house but it will still be a good shake down run for the stuff I have done on the bike.

Seat on the bike

So here is a pic of the seat on the bike. Plain an simple smaller looks better.

fender work

As you can see below in the pics I have a different fender on there. It looks all chipped up but really, it is a clean fender that is duct-tape remaining after I had covered the paint while I was cutting it down to size. The fender was an Ebay deal. It started as a Kingpin, long fender with some heavy straches/denting (below the breake light) where I was going to cut it.

This is just a portion of what I will do with the rear fender. I might either cut it down more or drill out some holes following the curve of the wheel about a half inch up from the bottom edge of the fender.

Jockey clutch pics

Finally here is some pics of the jockey set up I am running. Like I said before super smooth and easy to use. Much more fun riding this style. It reminds you of something like driving a manual car compared to an automatic.

Jockey Clutch

Well I finally got the bike out on its shake down run. The new bars made it feel like I lost all my power steering but I will get used to that. The clutch is smooth and easy to manuver through the gears. What I was most impressed with is the ease at take off.
I was expecting much more difficulty but it was cake. Steering during take off was the biggest challenge with the narrow bars and one handed take offs, it takes a tight grip and a firm sholder to prevent fop in the front end.