New tire

Polished my rear wheel and fitted it with a  NOS goodyear tire. 

Looking good.

Axle plates

After months of waiting i finally got my axle plates. 

I must say they look pretty awesome on my rusty frame jig. 

Now test fitting, adjusting and frame fabrication time. 

Water damage

Had al little bit of a water problem in my shed. There goes my bare metal frame jig, tools etc. Fortunatly i was there ik time to save the most of it. 

Bikeshow winners

The five bikes that won the bigtwin bikeshow. 

Jury

Today i had the honor to be in the jury of the Bigtwin Bikeshow.

Our job was to pick the 5 best bikes of the show out of 66. 

Come to the show on sunday or buy the next Bigtwin to find out the 5 winning bikes. 

This is now! chprs mgzn

A new magazine about the dutch chopper scène. Trust me, it's awesome.

I little Photoshop

Fooling arround with photoshop to see how another tank and shortend fender will look. 

Holliday time. Unfortunately to hot to work in here.

Progress this weekend

Figured out the axle plates so i can maintain a straight backbone. Made a first cut in the frame and finished the rear axle position.

Z-bar

Almost done with the z-bar. 

Frame jig

Finishing the front part of the frame jig.

Testing some Parts

Where the magic happens

Spring is here!

Productive weekend

Finished the swingarm this weekend.
A few new bearings a lot of grease and she's up an running again.

Also made a little progress on the frame jig. A friend is manufacturing a few Parts for me so untill then no further progress.

New swingarm

Traded my aluminium swingarm for a nice alien gas tank and a handfull of cash.

Now test fitting the original swingarm.

And test fitting the new gastank. Looks great!

Paint

Little paintjob i did on my nephew's bicycle.

Building my 60's style chopper

Here it goes. I've bought this Ironhead frame a few years ago from a guy that had it laying around. Since than i've been planning to build a true sixties chopper.

Due to family expansions, job changes and finishing my education i never really got to start with this project. What i did manage was to collect as many parts as possible. 

So far i've got; this frame, a bates style seat an p-pad, a real Wassel ribbed fender, several gas tanks, A-ford rear light, 35 mm front end, bates style headlight, home made handlebar, controls, grips, 19'' front wheel, 16'' rear wheel, really old pegs, a lot of other small parts and enough steel to turn this frame into a hardtail, build a frame jig and parts for the bike.

 At this moment i'm building my own frame-jig so i can start with modifying the frame and start with fabricating parts for the bike.

This is how the frame looks like right now. An original 1979 Harley Davidson Ironhead frame.

And this is how the frame should look like when i'm done. 4'' lower and 4'' longer.

Fresh paint for Lucy. Ready for another season.

Taking Lucy for a ride

Project bike