The Chopper Compendium

I cut some axle plates out of 3/8" hot rolled. I roughed the axle slots in and then had my father cut them in his milling machine. I bolted them together and shaped them so they came out matching. I also made them with a tab for a sissy bar to bolt to. frame3.jpg frame2.jpg frame4.jpg I cut slo...

This frame was built by following the directions as written in the Chopper Builders Handbook by Gary which is here: http://chopperhandbook.com/oldschool1.htm I started by cutting the seat tube cross member which is 1 x 2 rectangular tube and seat tube which I cut at one end at a 17 deg. angle. The s...

The rear axle plate locating fixture. The tubing is 1" to hold the axle.

These are pictures of the frame jig I put together first. When I got the angle I wanted on the neck (35 degrees) I welded the tube on to the upright so it's not adjustable like some the fancy jigs. The bike when finished ended up with 38 degrees of rake. jig3.jpg The smaller tube is 1" which fi...

The JD Squared tubing bender with 1.125" die for the frame tube. I also purchased a 1.0" die set. This shows the pointer for the degree scale made from wire

I'm going to re-build my original build log - Please Don't Post in here until it's done. Thanks, Craig This thread will be mostly pictures to begin with. I believe the old saying is true about a picture being worth a thousand words. This is a bike I built a few years ago using the original "Cho...

Budoka (Dan) do you have a link to my old school chopper build that was on the old CBH board? There were some pictures on there that I don't have on my current computer. I am trying to put my build log back together and I am also needing to get the pictures for Gary. Can you please help? Thanks man!

Irish is here. I need to find my old build thread. What happened to it?

OK cool thanks y'all...

yona wrote:Tks, Ga Boy.....you still in Cali-fornicate... lol

Yeah I'm still still here. My daughter still lives in the ATL tho and I was out there for a week a couple weeks ago. Ate some BBQ, man I miss that!

Hey Yona, Glad to hear you are doing OK and are getting healthy. Over the past two years I have lost 50 lbs. It feels good and maybe I'll live longer.

It's good to see the board up and running, but where is all of the old information and project build logs? I don't have a copy of my old school chopper build which was built using the chopper builders handbook on the original site. Is it lost forever?