The Chopper Compendium

I'm trying to get the old Chopper Builders Handbook site back up and running and need pictures of peoples project builds for the old 'Projects' page so if you have time send me whatever you want published again. I appreciate the help from everybody who is helping to get the site back up and running ...

I'd ditch that tank as it screws up the proportions of the bike. Hope you didn't make it and pardom my opinion if you did.

Any good bike fab shop should be able to make these tubes in one piece. Just take them your mock-up tubes and maybe a few dimensional sketches of what you need. Those are really easy bends to make so the cost should not be to bad.

Keep in mind that there are two distinct schools of thought about jigs and fixtures. One school submits to the concept that a jig or a fixture is merely a 'positioning' device and does not rigidly hold the tubing. The other school adheres to the concept of having the jig or fixture clamp all of the ...

I hope that as people come to the site they keep in mind that jigs and fixtures are just tools of the trade. Sometimes we build something that is relatively permanant in nature and other times we hack something together for a specific situation. When I was coming up most of the old greybeards I work...

I think that Ed Roth would have liked this concept very much.

I'm glad to find that all of you pudwhackers (Maz excluded) have found some way to be constructive in your spare time. Winter is coming on so I expect to see some garage choppin going here over the next few months and some new rides hitting the streets in spring.