Alain as Dyna said its to move the sprocket on the wheel out. And to answer your question Dyna I will just need to cut new wheel spacers to move the wheel to the right a fraction.

I'm digging that tyre too, looks business no matter what angle you look at it

Still waiting on my heads and TB to turn up this week, hopefully I get it before the weekend

 

something tells me that Ink will continue this project for the next four million pages LOL
Which will extend the fun till who knows when?

 

How do I always seem to miss these threads!!!??


Bike looks great. I see a few guys liked your old set up better. The old set up was cool, but not my style. I think your new set up is bad ***!!!! I hope you leave the tank and fenders metal color, just clear them or something. Paint on this beast would be a tragedy!!!


Anyway, keep up the good work.

 

Call it "done" right there man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Splatt I'm trying to make it the longest build thread in HDF history so everyone asks me questions about the build at the end because it's too long to read through lol nah jokes it's why I made a thread so I can stop bombing the night train thread with my rambling ****

Ctluba thanks man! Ive got an old race bobber style them paint all in flat colours picked out for it, but trust me leaving it all metal has been on the back of my mind this while time

Pulled the rear off for the 50th time to drop the wheel and sprocket off to my machine guy. Then cut all the mounts off the swing arm to move everything around again.

My rocker box covers where a bit shitty looking and being they are going to be pretty exposed with the small tank I thought I'd give them a tidy up. I sanded them back and recoated them in wrinkle, come up like a new set, pretty stoked about that. Coat the **** out of them until the paints about to run then hit it with a hair dyer to activate the wrinkle if any one wants to know

 

Damn dude. Those rockers look good. You did that yerself?
What coating did you use? I want to coat some of the parts on my ol'lady's sportster.

 

Yep rockers look good, amazing what a can of krylon can do..Ctluba had a great idea maybe a clear coat on the metak with very subtle pin striping and a number on the tank would look killer. But I have a feeling this bike will look killer any way you paint it

 

Hey Alain I used VHT wrinkle black paint. You need to cost the **** out of it, so much so that it's about to run. Then hit it with a hairdryer back and forth. I tried many ways but this way work by far the best.

Dyna anythings possible still, I know either way will look great. I like that rough look, so either bare metal or some flat black dirty colours will be what I go for

 

Thanks ink. Did you use primer? Or just the vht ?


Gonna try it on a few of the parts on my wife's sportster.

 

I just used VHT as the rocker box is aluminium or dicast of some sort. If it was over steel I'd primer it first