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Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:35 pm
by smiffy1968
Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:40 pm
by smiffy1968
I have done something wrong as my last post i had hoped would post my pic, anyway i will get the hang of it eventually. This is one pic of my hardtail chopper.
Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:53 pm
by J1MS
Think you just clicked on the wrong code.
Think it should be the fourth line of text.
Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 10:02 pm
by smiffy1968
J1MS wrote:
Think you just clicked on the wrong code.
Think it should be the fourth line of text.
Thanks for that J1ms, Much appreciated.
Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 10:38 pm
by RICSPEED
that looks alright ..not sure about the headstock though
Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 10:51 pm
by smiffy1968
RICSPEED wrote:that looks alright ..not sure about the headstock though
The grafting on of the front xr200 frame section could have been better, granted. But hey, it is a rat after all. I am thinking about sheeting that front bit in and moving/ changing headlight mounts. What are your thoughts about the headstock Ricspeed? Feedback good and bad much appreciated, i am a big boy i can take it......
Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 1:27 am
by scooterslag
J1MS wrote:
Think you just clicked on the wrong code.
Think it should be the fourth line of text.
More piccies please- really like that

Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 7:40 pm
by MADSPEEDRB260

Well good i like it iv just done one very similar to that for a lad...
Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 10:25 pm
by RICSPEED
smiffy1968 wrote:RICSPEED wrote:that looks alright ..not sure about the headstock though
The grafting on of the front xr200 frame section could have been better, granted. But hey, it is a rat after all. I am thinking about sheeting that front bit in and moving/ changing headlight mounts. What are your thoughts about the headstock Ricspeed? Feedback good and bad much appreciated, i am a big boy i can take it......
purely from a visual point of veiw from the point the lammy frame meets the xr section the tubing is angled backwards which in the pic at least makes it appear as a weak spot although im aware this was nessasary to get the rake just so
the only other way round this would to have extended the tube up to meet the head stock like marks pride chop
Re: JUST BUILDING A RAT CHOP
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 12:06 am
by smiffy1968
Bugger, Ricspeed. You have picked out the one bone of contention i have with it. It was not quite a right fit, as you said about the rake, if i had gotten the front frame section straight with the lammy tube the bloody forks would have been too upright. I also see it as a potential weak point, thats why i welded in a large chunk of 6mm flat plate up the inside. This bike is pretty rough close up, but thats what i intended anyway.
Madness, i would love to see the chop you have built similar to this, as i have not clapped eyes on a hardtail. I am beginning to think i am missing a point here. I have built the rear strut replacing the shock with large rubberized bushes hoping this will take any shock out. Although talking to a mate tonight, we were chatting about a trick harley shock that works on extension not compression. Thinking about fitting it horizontally under frame tube the grafting some kind of bracket of the engine..............zzzzzzzzzzzz.......
