Am I Nuts?
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From: West Texas Sandhills
RE: Am I Nuts?
I'm giving it some very serious thought. I alread have the sheet metal, if i want to go the FL softail route, along witha set of wheels and a couple of seats. My big problem is not really having a goodplace to work on it. I have a 12x20 storage building that would probably give me the room to work (after I clean it out). I have never done anything like this before, but it would give me aworld of knowledge on how it goes together.I have several friends that would help me out if I ran into any problems, so I have that covered. I will check on getting it titled before I start. I do know it will be along the lines of a FXsoftail, and am considering on using a springer front end.I do know I will use the cases of a TC88B engine, probably95 cubes.I think I may have found a frame, but will also check into having one fabricated.....IdaSpud, that Studebaker you seeon my sig pic was at some little gas station/soviener shop just south of Deadwood, SD. They haveseveral old Studebakers there, along with an assortment of other stuff. If you ever go to Sturgis, it is just south of there on Hwy 385. I guess I had better start working a lot of overtimeif I want to do this...Maybe even get a second job
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From: Port Charlotte, Florida
RE: Am I Nuts?
I have been trying to talk my dad into doing this for a long time.
I i didn't have the payment i have on my bike i would. And when i get mine paid for that is my next project i want to build a bike from the ground up.
There are so many possibilities you can make anything you want fab it up weld it up and take it to a chrome shop or powder coater dam got me all thinking again.
i love **** like this and if i had money would do it all the time.
I i didn't have the payment i have on my bike i would. And when i get mine paid for that is my next project i want to build a bike from the ground up.
There are so many possibilities you can make anything you want fab it up weld it up and take it to a chrome shop or powder coater dam got me all thinking again.
i love **** like this and if i had money would do it all the time.
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From: Darlington WI.
RE: Am I Nuts?
Go for it. We have donea number of scratch built bikes and its a blast the first time you fire that thing up and then stand backlooking at it and listening toit idle and and you know with out a doubt that it is the best sounding bike that was ever built and realize that you know every single part on it, it gives you a real good feeling. There isone thing I will say that is the way the gov. has got about titling a custom scratch built vehicle limiting you to only one in a life time, if I were you I would really think about for you're first build getting a wrecked bike and doing and then doing a ground up custom job on it. A lot of these bikes there is not that much wrong with them but with the cost of OEM parts and labor rates of $70 an hour and up it doesn't take long for a bill to add up to enough to total a good bike. When done this way pretty much all you should have to worry about when licensing the bike is having it inspected to make sure its street legalto the year of the title you have for the bike, this will not clear the title as it will remain a salvage title but I have never had any problems with that. You will also gain a lot of valuable knowledge pulling down the stock bike that willreally help when you build it back up to the custom you want. There is one other thing to think about and that is that after building the first one you will want to build another and if you do you're first build on a pretitled bike this will still leave you open to build you're once in a life time custom and now you will have a lot better idea of what you can do.
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From: Darlington WI.
RE: Am I Nuts?
Here is a shot of my last rebuild. I will say this is a bit on the extreme side but it was fun.
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