ironhead

heres a pic of the ironhead all finished, zip looks a bit like Zoot from the muppet show.

The ironhead is used daily and is ridden hard

so ive been busy working and stuff, the ironhead has been done for sometime and is the nuts although I'm craving for something shiny again and with all this vintage harley stuff going on I've decided to build a digger.. or at least a digger styled bike and it's going to be a ... honda

I picked up an early santee prismic tank ages ago and thats was my starting point.

I'll post some pictures up of where Ive got to so far which is pretty much just a collection of parts but I should be getting a frame together sometime over the next few weeks.

I'll put some pics of the ironhead up as well... but you may have seen it on other blogs...... is anybody reading this? i dont know

not much to do now

Motor in, forwards done, seat done, just got to mount the oil tank and get the proper back wheel one and rig up the rear brake.

I've put a disc on the front for the moment which I'm not really happy with but I already had the disc, caliper, line and shit lying around so it was all put to use.. plus it will be a nice change to be able to stop.

moving along

got some bits and bobs done, my mate made me a sissy bar but it was too wide so I narrowed it and shortened it a bit at the bottom so it

sits a bit closer to the tyre. got some rear pegs mounted and bodged some forwards together out of various bits.

I've switched back to the original bars, reckon they need to be on dogbones, still not decided on bars just yet.

Got my proper rear wheel laced up and also managed to score a really cheap 35 mm front end with 7/8th stem, so that will save a bit of work. I'll hopefull get round to picking my motor up over the next few weeks.

sissy bar

I Borrowed this one to see what it looks like, and I like it

sidestand works o.k

Messing around

Got the bike loosely assembled and tried some different bars on, I kinda like these pull back bars so think they may stay although now I can't get my super cool stupid hard plastic Japanese grips off the other bars because I glued them on with high strength airbus glue ( the glue they use to put airbusses together so I am told) . I like these rubber grips though, comfy too.

That headlight wasn't the one I was going to use but it looks pretty good with those bars. That's my opinion anyway, back wheel and tyres is just a mock up thing. in fact if you touch the bike in it's present state it falls to fucking pieces.

And I think my bars are going to tocuh the floor before my sidestand does.

I've got an urge for a stupid sissy bar now, I'm going to make it really tall and tie a flag to it so I know which bike is mine when I'm at a do that's full of skinny old choppers.

Actually, I will recognize mine as the rusty brown piece of shit with the wassel tank WITHOUT metalflake paint.