What are the key elements that make a motorcycle into a bobber style motorcycle?

Thanks!

 

As per Wikipedia: the typical construction includes stripping excess bodywork from a motorcycle; removing the front fender, and shortening the rear fender, which is "bobbed" (as in bob-tail), and all superfluous parts removed to reduce weight.

 

THIS is a "bobber."

 

Making a motorcycle as uncomfortable as humanly possible. If you are able to do that, you can build a bobber.......

 

You can only own one if you’re named “Bob”.

 

A ‘bobber’ is a motorcycle that is typically stripped down from stock, but not stripped down as much as a “chopper”.
If you can ride it for more than 50 miles at a time, it’s probably still a ‘touring bike’… unless it’s a Road King.

(I’ll take those cross-post points now.)

 

Folks rode Bobbers and Choppers all over God's green earth when even "touring bikes" weren't anything like today.

 

So, the Street Bob pictured here would not be considered a bobber?

 

Definitions change over time. What we call a bobber today could be a chopper if you were having this discussion in the 60's. A guy I know has a hardtail panhead with a springer front, a sissy bar but uncut frame that would be called a bobber today but decades earlier it would be considered a chopper before choppers got long front ends and raked necks. He went so far as to make it clear his bike is NOT a bobber and that he might get violent if someone called it a bobber lol.

Is the modern bike above a bobber? Kind of but more wanna be because it's too new and comfortable looking.

 

Dictionary: Bobber - a small float placed on a fishing line to hold the hook at the desired depth.

If you throw your motorcycle into the lake and it floats, it's a bobber...