Dirty_Vinylpusher

Hey guys, been a while since I posted in this forum...

Thought I'd share one of my latest projects with you - a homemade rat chopper.


It started one day, as it always does, with a cup of coffee as I was looking at all the junk I have laying around.
Yeah... there's that old bike I was gonna do something with one day.....









I decided to drag it in to the shed and stripped all the bits off it and cut it in half...











Added a few bits of tubing here and there, and some old apehangers I had made ages ago for a scooter project that never got finished and after a while it looked like this:








Well that was fun, so why not build something a bit more serious......




I got hold of this old steel tube frame and thought it had some useful bends in it that could come in handy.










Didn't take long before it was all cut down to useable pieces










And so began MK II of the chopper

Dirty_Vinylpusher

I made some chopper style front forks















Using the headtube from the old Razor chopper


















I've got a larger front wheel for it by the way


















To be continued........

Argess

I can see an engine being added to this at some point................

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Maybe maybe......

splcrazy

you always amaze me man , you seem like an interesting character that loves building from scratch kinda like those two guys from mythbusters , i could watch their shows all day their rocket car they built was always an episode that stuck in my mind . do you watch alot of youtube on home made chopper pocket bikes you could get some more cool ideas from there also.

i found this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNbXB...eature=related

proanti1

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Here is something I built when I was like 16, the engine was out of a two stroke rototiller. The bike moved pretty good, topped out about 30. It had no clutch, the sprocket was welded directly onto the crank, you had to walk forward and hop on to start it. I used to ride this thing to school and back... easily the coolest thing at the bike racks. This picture is when it was about half done, I lost all the other pictures over the years.

Nik.

I built a motorized bike with a weedwahcker motor, friction drive. Later I put a 3hp Briggs on it with a go cart clutch.

tommygun32

Very Nice gents....[&:][8D]

DV....keep the updates coming man......

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Yeh Mythbusters is ok, they build some cool stuff there at times.

I like to watch Scrapheap Challenge whenever it's on, and also check out American Chopper, Monster Garage and American Hotrod from time to time.
I used to read car magazines 20-25 years ago and drool over Boyd Coddington's Hotrods.
He definitely knows how to design a nice car, but judging by that Hotrod show he turned in to a bit of an old grumpy bugger running a big empire and not doing any of the work himself in the end.
Guess that's what happens when your hobby becomes your livelyhood?

Only thing that annoys me with those shows, especially Hotrod and Chopper, is all the reality drama crap and everyone arguing with eachother.



To begin with I won't be putting a motor on this - pedal power only - but who knows, maybe down the track.

Lots of work to be done before that though.

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Cut up the remains of the old Razor chopper this morning to see what useful bits I could get out of it.....







The bottom rails could maybe be used for a sissybar....








Also had a go at doing a bit of fishmouthing

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Got the seat post on.

Moved it outside the clean up in the shed a bit and took a couple of pics.

















Gotta start thinking about handlebars soon.


......and where to put the pedals. [&:]

HJJFFFAA

Pedals? Pedals are for chumps. What you need is an engine.

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Well then, so be it.

I'm a chump.

Eman77

Pedals aren't a problem. Just have a requirement that the rider must have really long legs.

HJJFFFAA

I mean no offense DVP.

tommygun32

I believe in ya DVP. Really nice job so far and I'm pretty sure you've already thought this idea all the way through. Can't wait to see the next set of pics.

Don't know if you're aware but Boyd Coddington passed away a couple years ago..[&o]

Dirty_Vinylpusher

I'm close to 6ft3 so I've got the leg situation covered
If anything I'm gonna be a bit scrunched up when riding it.

But choppers aren't meant to be comfortable and easy to ride are they.....?






I know mate, all good.








Err..... sure..... thought it through.
*ahem*

No not really to be honest, just making it up as I go along.
Never built a bike frame before and there are a lot of things I'd do differently if/when I make another one.
It's all a learning process but it keeps it interesting.



Yeah I know.

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Jgaff2

Man, this looks like it's coming along pretty nicely. When you get the pedals issue figured out you need to give that thing some paint!

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Yep will do
Gonna go for the classic Hot Rod look.
Matt black with red rims and white wall tires.

Ttam Says Blarg

Been following this pretty closely. You have a thing for hand building your own stuff. Which is awesome!

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Thanks





I fiddled around a bit with the wheelmount this afternoon.

Took a bit more off it and changed the shape.
Made it more streamlined.


Now I've just gotta copy it for the other side...

Dirty_Vinylpusher

splcrazy

i dunno about the handle bar spikes if someone falls on it they gonna get stabbed

Dirty_Vinylpusher

I've already stabbed myself on them three times.

Will file them down a bit tomorrow I think....