The Chopper Compendium

Very cool looking springer, i personally like to keep my bikes rake around 36degree or less. I like my bikes to handle tight and easier to turn. Still very nice man. :D :popcorn: :obscene-drinkingcheers: very big misconception on long bikes not handling or having huge turnabouts. I have worked hand...

So the story goes that i got this springer for a song and a dance. I found a counte's customs take-off sugar bear springer. i bought it for the fact of wanting to blueprint a sugar bear springer (the last springer i needed to blueprint for my important springer blueprint collection). I bought it blu...

johnny b got a new phone and need your contact again. pm as we can talk about the sugar bear springer i just aquired. along with the dick allen blueprints.

i am up to do some videos on all 4 frontend builds and 3 frame builds(big twin, sporty, and jap)

:banana-gotpics: I made up the drawings at the top of the page a few years ago for another forum. Good to see someone thought they were useful enough to save. :dance: neo i saved them and have had staples blow all of the pages posed up to poster size and hang them on my shop wall to refer back to. ...

im jealous :mrgreen: :mrgreen: don't be you didn't have to explain the fact that you wanted to buy something just to blueprint it and hang it on the wall to your wife. She looked over the parts wall and went through and counted how much money i wasted on blueprinting shit. She was not pleased. I ha...

sugar bear springer will be here tomorrow at 11:00am. Me and gary got a phone call to do and then i will post pics of the frontend. From there i will post the ins and outs and you ask and ask away on questions. hey don't forget i got a denvers, century/ness, harman, finch, columbus, and smith bros s...

gary, can you teach me about jig building? I want to know all there is to know about it. How many different jigs can you build and what would the approximate cost be to build each one? :mrgreen: Also frontend jigs...i saw this one cd that the old gray haired guy used wood and channel steel. What a l...

will be posting a unique take on a sugarbear springer. i just bought one for a damn good price. i will be posting pics and measurements. with htis info and the cd you should be able to build one of your own. i will post once it comes in.

dan do you have the springer build photos? if so that is something that would be good to post up for these guys to see.

so most of us know Gary produced a few instructional CDs. On one of them he describes how to build an old school springer with had tools. Dan proved that it can be done as described. Once i saw that post i started grabbing every bit of knowledge i could about building frontends. The one frontend tha...

no real fan fair in finishing it as it was already sold
no one really asked or said anything

max,
the 650 domi and harman rigid front were finished. I am now trying to make the sportster into a domi frame.

Krymis here. Glad to see a new board up and running. HOpe everyone is doing ok. got a new sporty project. HOpe to post pics of an old school rake job on it, rigid strut build, fatbob tank, and fiberglass fender/seatpan.