#Old school sportster chopper registration
I'm sure there are restrictions and government regulations in regard to registration and I may change my plans if I can't license the finished product. I'd like to buy the first one and take careful measurements from it to make my own. I have a frame jig in the shop but I don't think its wise to scratch-build the first frame.
It'll be a rigid frame like the one pictured above, and I'm very particular. In the meantime, I'm gathering intelligence on this engine and choosing a frame for the project. If it works well and is profitable (or just not a loss, and really fun) then we'll consider doing Part Deux. The one below in the photo is an early Sportster, maybe from the sixties or seventies and is the model for our first effort together. He and his partner Ruben plan to market the completed chopper through their company and the project will be a joint venture with my company Desert Classics LLC. He now owns a sporting goods distributing company in Europe and Great Britain. He has a magnetic personality and we've kept our association alive through the subsequent decades. Luis spent a year in the US as a foreign exchange student in the '90s and lived with my wife's parents. My partner is a long-time family friend, Luis, a businessman who lives there with his beautiful family. I plan to build a simple, old school chopper using a Harley-Davidson Sportster, much like the one in the picture below and send it to Madrid Spain. My name is Doug and if you read any of my other blogs then you know I have a small mechanical shop in Outlook, a small, rural town in Central Washington, USA. Herein, a few of us will keep a record of the Sportster Project. Welcome to the maiden post of the Old School Chopper Blog. I've done that with my car engines and the engine seems to clean up easily and looks great each time it's washed. I'm thinking of bead blasting the engine cases and heads and then clear coating them to preserve their base color.
I plan to spend a great deal of attention on the engine and make it the focal point of the bike. I'll have a minimum of contracted labor costs that way and I should have enough $$ left over to pay for the frame. I'll have to rebuild the engine, but I can do it in my own shop.
It seems like the idea to buy an engine rather than a whole motorcycle has given me an advantage. I'll be checking on the reviews of others who may have used their frames and I'd like to see a mock up of a Sportster with their frame. They seem to have a decent inventory and a frame that may come close to what I'm after. Last night I stumbled upon a website of a company called AAOK.COM. I'm not sure I like that - it forces me to use one of their proprietary oil tanks too. The KraftTech look nice but appear to have a bit too much stretch, and the seat downtube has a radical bow in it to clear the oil tank. Paughco seems to be the backbone supplier but I keep seeing frames from KraftTech. In the meantime, I'm taking the time to search out the best frame I can find to help me get the look I'm after.
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