Josh- It’s been a little over 2 years since I finished building my XS chop and it took me 2 years to build it so it was time to freshen her up a bit. I swapped out the entire front end, adding Mullins Chain Drive super narrow triple trees, 39mm sportster tubes, shaved the lowers, 21″ 40 spoke spool wheel, 4″ spotlight, Johnny Chop bars and new grips.
I also swapped the rear wheel from 80 spoke to 40 spoke and added new rubber front and rear. Finally a new chain and battery and she is terrorizing the streets once again! I plan on doing new paint as well as polishing the trees and lowers. Maybe some new upswept pipes too.
It never ends . . . this disease. I did all of the work/swapping in about 10 days at the end of 2010. Finally took some decent pics so I thought I would share. Thanks for looking!
Josh Scott
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