Spectacular. Interesting pipes.

 

yuk what an ugly bike,

 

I stumbled on this thread during a search and thought I'd revive it to say... "WOW, Awesome work Los11!"

I'm raking my Fat Bob 5 degrees and putting some custom wheels on it as we speak. Due to other obligations, it's going very very slow, but hope to get on it again in the coming weeks.

 

Awesome looking chop.

 

Still waiting for my six over tubes

 

thistlethunders custom looks WOW to me; personally though, I've been riding since '68 and I can understand chopping off garbage for lighter weight but wouldn't want to throw handling and braking out the window deliberately for appearances sake...and then, as now, some stuff just doesn't look right to me.

Back in the 60's there were only FLH's, XLCH's and Brit twins...you can see how the FLH was "chopped" into a wide glide and the XLCH's were fast, for Harleys, but the Brit twins needed a hardtail to clean up the back half and really crush your spine...I like the FXDF of the current styles (Russell Mitchell), distinctive but still with the capabilities that set motorcycles apart from cages when we're duking it out on the pavement.....

Just my old guy opinion and like a certain piece of anatomy, everyone has one.

 

Here's mine. I want to cut the neck and extend the forks tubes someday. The original poster said it best, you just don't see chopped dynas anymore. I always dreamed of having one growing up. The day I got mine home was the first day I was looking on what to modify!

 

I know it's almost ten years later, but I stumbled upon this thread and had to add my bike in. It's a 2013 rigid superglide with 7" over forks.

 

10 years later and they are still not very popular.

Bellbottoms haven't come back either, lol.

Dave

 

Used to ride a copped Bonni ....looked good and many moons ago at 20 that’s all that counted...I can hardly remember but women were attracted...may have something to do with it 😜