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Shaving Fork Legs

I took some pictures of how I shaved the legs on my forks for my “Memento Mori” ironhead.

The original 35mm Showas were beat to hell, and had these big tabs for the fender which I certainly wasn’t going to run.

I started by marking out some rough cuts with a sharpie. I’ll whack off the bulk of the material with a 4.5" cutoff wheel on my angle grinder.

There is (well, was) a big pad where the reflector mounted. Ick.

I’ll use a grinding disk to knock off some of the bulk.

Time to get

 

Read more... | Published: 11/20/07

Splitting The Rockers

One of the things we did on the “Memento Mori” ironhead was to split the rockers. This isn’t a new thing, but the Ironhead rocker covers are different from Shovel rocker covers. They are shaped differently, with one side coming to a square corner and the other having a curved corner. They also have fewer bolts, so if you eliminate the middle bolt you only have three bolts holding each rocker half, not four like a shovel.

The way we modified these came from Weyland at Solutions Machining. He nailed it, modifying Ironhead rockers really requires getting the two

 

Read more... | Published: 11/17/07

Making an ugly tank...not so

The Ugly Bike Cometh

Didja ever get the crazy idea to buy a bike you don’t really need? To start a new project when you’ve already got three or four already cooking? I’m probably the only one that ends up in these situations.

It was a nice spring day, and I’d spotted a bargain Ironhead Sportster on CraigsList. Damn computers. I went over and looked at it with my buddy Brian. We got it started (MAN it was hard to start, I had a whopper bruise on the inside of my leg that night!) I rode it around, convinced

 

Read more... | Published: 11/12/07