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Sully_PA

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Re: 750 chop "The Chipper"
« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2008, 06:55:33 PM »
Nice work...looking good!

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Re: 750 chop "The Chipper"
« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2008, 10:29:19 PM »
Hi modrat, I just didn't like it, I've got vague ideas for the general thing and it didn't fit in. It was full of holes and rust anyway, plus the lower part round the leccy box had been beaten & cut none too nicely.
General idea for the bike has come from a visit to a museum where they had this medieval armour and weapons and the metalwork was completely awesome, and the shapes inspiring. I can't do anything remotely like those guys did (how on earth did they manage it?), but the shapes, I'll try & borrow something from those...
Another board I am on has a guy from Pakistan. His shop is very primitive compared to a modern shop, yet they turn out inspiring metal craftsmanship.  I am searching for his pics and videos and will post them in the off topic forum.

Not Pirate4x4 is it? That guy with the Frog?

Proof that you don't need high tech to make fantastic metalwork.

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Re: 750 chop "The Chipper"
« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2008, 10:48:01 PM »
I think that frame is...


from DENVER'S Choppers...



probably in Riverside California.. if my memory is working.. ;D
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BillKat

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Re: 750 chop "The Chipper"
« Reply #28 on: August 10, 2008, 08:22:31 AM »
Possible 754 but fairly unlikely as I'm in the UK and frames like that aren't brought over to here, partly because of shipping and tax, and we had small chop frame shops since the 60s. So it's prob one of them. Or maybe one of our one-man-band frame builders. There's a number or some marking buried on the headstock, when I blast it maybe that'll reveal something.

What I do know is, whoever got the 750 in there yrs back didn't worry about the rear being too wide for the back wheel setup, they just did the thing up tight to squeeze the axle plates inward.... Got to get some measurements & throw the motor back in and check alignments, spacers needed etc.

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Re: 750 chop "The Chipper"
« Reply #29 on: August 10, 2008, 09:36:38 AM »
Check out Denver Chopppes site, it is fantastic.. :o

My computer is too slow tho, and I could not view the pics.. I think they built Honda frames way back..

 Fairly often though if it was tough to import, someone would try to build a close replica themselves..

 But you may be surprised by what did actually end up on your shores..
Maker of the WELDLESS 750 Frame Kit
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Kelowna B.C.       Canada

My next bike will be a ..ANFOB.....

It's All part of the ADVENTURE...

73 836cc.. Green, had it for 3 decades!!
Lost quite a few CB 750's along the way

BillKat

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Re: 750 chop "The Chipper"
« Reply #30 on: August 10, 2008, 11:03:00 AM »
Nice site indeed... love those springers they've got ... fabulous.
Talking of nice pics, have you seen http://glorydayscycles.blogspot.com/ some great pics on there...

I've not seen a frame here from the States yet, except for high-buck H-D ones. The shipping and tax took that away from us Jap chop monkeys, and importing was a lot harder decades back (all hail the Net!). It was just never worth it.
The market here was so small, the import costs, and no need to import because we had chop frame sources since Uncle Bunts in the 60s. The market is small: some of our most famous frame builders have been 1-man operations for decades.

We do get a ton of parts from the US nowadays though (I reckon 75% parts for my modded Wing), especially HD of course and hot rod parts, but frames for Jap chops are still either made or chopped here. It'd be nice if mine came from somwhere exotic, but I reckon it's an early 80s thing out of one of our small chop shops; maybe the stamping will throw some light.

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Re: 750 chop "The Chipper"
« Reply #31 on: August 16, 2008, 03:35:10 AM »
Been ill, and at 4am while out of it, had an idea - original idea for the tank meant on materials, that I could do without at the mo. Saved that idea for the next tank.

Cut two 'blades', tack 'em together.
Having worked out holes distance and sizes, mark up and make blades like Swiss Cheese. Separate blades.
Make metal tee from sq tube, clamp in vice. Spend ages lining up the blades either side of the tee horizontal tube - spirit level, eye, inventive swearing (cussing).
Cut lengths of tube in various diameters. Insert and tack round the insides of the blades.
Tack a strip of steel to the top. Cut down to match the taper, and finish weld. Can't see it in the pic, but the thing gradually tapers to a sharp point at the back end, and curves in at the front.
Chop down the protruding tube stubs, finish weld.
Stick to tank, job done, a lightweight holey spiney Thing. Here 'tis with a coat of plod about to get DA'd:


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Re: 750 chop "The Chipper"
« Reply #32 on: August 16, 2008, 04:59:50 AM »
Words cannot describe how insanely awesome that is.

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Re: 750 chop "The Chipper"
« Reply #33 on: August 16, 2008, 07:52:25 AM »
Very nice!! Im eager to see how this turns out!

good luck with it!
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