Maybe the dumbest thing I've ever done is tinker with an old chopper. I bought this thing from a friend in St. Louis a few years ago and tinkered with it for a while. I just wanted to see if I could make it work.
The wheels and brakes were there in duplicate, the bolt holes lined up, the engine mounts were kinda hinkey and there was no way to control it with a wobbly, knackered Arlen Springer knock-off front end that wasn't true. The triple-tree barely fit without shims, the exhaust needed to be fabricated from almost zero and I never did get the carbs exactly right.
It was purportedly cut in the sixties, with a '65 Bonneville 650 in a HD frame. The welds looked like someone was on his first day at the Miller machine, and the tanks weren't in the best of shape, either. I kept it black over red for the nostalgiic look. It wound up with a Kawasaki front end and some off-the-shelf handlebars (in the moving van picture).
Anyway, I've been looking for these pictures for a long time, and I finally found them on a CD at my Mom's house in St. Louis last month.
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