The Chopper Compendium

Just a link to the 70's....way cool

http://www.executivechoppers.com/index-2.html

Harmons are cool to hang on the wall ,but if you want something that works and is adjustable .....and...... looks like a sprider....Check out Jaxon Davies frontends..... has an adjustable cartridge that fit in the back leg and not a welded plate ....it's repairable !

Is there a web site?

After posting, with to look for Jax......He told me that he log back in after i sent him the info....he was but he is gone and he hasn't responded to emails nor in the link to his site good any more......?????

I remember he is in Louisiana, did a search but could not find anything.

Hurricane Katrina caused him some damage if I remember correctly. Hope he is still in business.
Would be great to see him with another site, he had some righteous looking rides on there,
displaying the front ends he was building.

Thanks for posting that Yona, the rethinking the spring is so obvious its brilliant...Had been thinking they might of somehow been copyrighted?....Is this the guy over on JJ?

Anyway I lifted these from over there, just as a closer look...

Thats an air gun spring right.....

max,

i build the original harman's the same way that bill does. Bill is the guy that taught me how to build them and the stoker motor. the spring was custom wound around the corner from the roseville shop.

I have been searching for a spring that suits this need. Do you know the spring rate? 100 lbs? Thanks Scott

the original legs were .065 wall x 1.00 OD chromoly so the springs had to fit inside of them. I can give you a spring size that will work where i get back home to my notebook. A 100lbs spring rate should work fine.

Jaxon got back too me and if you went to bike week, you might have seen some of his work.... he is starting another site and will have it up soon !
Jaxon used to be on the old board , don't know about JJ.... He will be back on soon... just sent him the new site url.... you will have to ask him about copying....

i like it

krymis wrote:the original legs were .065 wall x 1.00 OD chromoly so the springs had to fit inside of them. I can give you a spring size that will work where i get back home to my notebook. A 100lbs spring rate should work fine.

That's really cool. I am not looking to steal ideas and try and start production or anything like that. I was actually investigating it for a build I am doing with a pile of people for an good 'ol biker to get him back in the wind again. He has a disease that keeps him from riding a two wheeler so we are all chipping in to get him on a trike. With that being said, I started thinking of the new style that is being offered that has the front leg at 1.25" and had also been thinking about that. I appreciate the help...........Scott

I was curious about finding springs, so did a search and found these on McMaster-Carr

http://www.mcmaster.com/#compression-springs/=h3143z

krymis wrote:the original legs were .065 wall x 1.00 OD chromoly so the springs had to fit inside of them. I can give you a spring size that will work where i get back home to my notebook. A 100lbs spring rate should work fine.

Did ya get home yet Chris?