Comments on: 1980 650 bobber

By: Bill Hegyessy

Bill Hegyessy — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:24:14 +0000

Perfection, pure perfection. When I see my own project in my mind’s eye, I see yours. Don’t change anything! Cool….

By: mike

mike — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:43:44 +0000

I will have updated pics soon. Have been busy, but it is coming along. Stainless exhuast addded, refinment of sheet metal, plate mount, and a few other things. Should be completed soon.

By: El Gaucho

El Gaucho — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:39:35 +0000

DUDE! That is a badass scoot! Probably has a bit heavy handling, but those bars are plenty wide to offset that. Can’t beat that fatty look though. Reminds me of the fat boy in Terminator, but cooler.

By: Johnny Williamson

Johnny Williamson — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:37:46 +0000

200 to 360mm tire is easy if you run dual final drive chain or belt. 650s in a rigid frame run a long final drive so the thought with Mike’s was to set up dual chain to shorten each chain. The added bonus is offset can be acheived to fit any motorcycle tire size available. We have a custom using a 330mm with a offset setup. The frame of course has to have the room but in our case we are bike builders and have the tools to fabricate. The front end started as a skinny DNA that we cladded over with thicker tubing.The tubing was cut to cover the outer portion of the legs leaving the inside width unchanged 200 tire just fits (brake line can be hidden inside the leg). If we wanted wider than 200mm the next step would be to make our own springer. I will post closeups of a offset on our w/site, chopperworks.ca

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:17:51 +0000

Was it difficult getting the 200 front and rear on the bike? LOVE IT!

By: Johnny Williamson

Johnny Williamson — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:39:10 +0000

Mike took these pictures with his phone. See more and better quality at our web site, chopperworks.ca It is under the RIGID page

By: sean from boston

sean from boston — Mon, 30 May 2011 06:21:14 +0000

looks cool as hell Let me know how it handles!!! great looking so far

By: fanoboss

fanoboss — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:48:59 +0000

I really think this should be a new production bike, can you imagine the response Yamaha would get if they debuted THIS !?!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 18 May 2011 04:09:27 +0000

How’d you mount the seat?
Same for the fenders.
Love to see people post pics of the trick bits on their bikes. Love seeing how people solve those kind of problems.

There ya go XS650chopper, how about blog posts for that. Cool bikes are great but so are the neat ideas people come up with for brackets and such.

How I made……….

By: JET36

JET36 — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:34:41 +0000

Very cool…
Brake setup internals and fenders are sick! Very clean bike. The headlight and springer; sick. The lines of the tank are perfect BUT its too big. The xs motor is little in size and get dwarfed by a tank real easy. Section that TANK!

By: hooversama

hooversama — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:49:04 +0000

Can you say Exile Cycles? The Bullfighter…or The Fat Bloke…Looks cool….I dig this style…..and I get the headlight….it’s supposed to be small…….makes the front end look even bigger.

By: Migustigus (The god of welding)

Migustigus (The god of welding) — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:05:55 +0000

That is so sweet… Love the lines…

Get er done….

😀

By: Old bastard

Old bastard — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:14:21 +0000

I like the fat tire look . ''Very cool''

By: Barney

Barney — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:19:29 +0000

The bike looks beefy. I agree with fanoboss. Having a bike that beefy should also have a beefy looking headlight. I am very interested in hearing how you set up the front brake through a foot control.

By: fanoboss

fanoboss — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:16:17 +0000

Very Cool. Looks like you may need to up-size your headlight.

By: marcus abel

marcus abel — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:19:23 +0000

Front brakes AND front fender in the most seamless way I have seen. Tight tolerances and your color choice of black keep the look of a classic bobber with the added practicality of brakes and a fender. Very nice! The 18″ rims give a nice proportion to the beefy 200mm tires. The wide tired look is getting over done these days but you have skillfully made it work on this build. Brake lines, wires, taillight, license plate and the other details, that are needed to finish this ride, will surely provide some challenges. Looking forward to your solutions!

By: Fabbastard

Fabbastard — Mon, 16 May 2011 10:51:27 +0000

ergonomic or what.. thats one clean smooth ride you got there!!!

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 16 May 2011 10:33:35 +0000

VERY IMMPRESIVE…WILL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF YOUR WORK IN THE FUTURE THEN…10/10