First post! Here is my xs400 bobber project!

[Bobbed750]

Here is my first project, I'm feeling lazy so I'm just copying and pasting from another forum post.



Not reallt sure you can consider a bike a bobber if your fabricating over half of the frame, So I guess this one would be considered a chopper.

As she sat as of 3:30 today:

After the sawzall massacre,
lengthening the backbone and going single.

All joints into the factory frame will be slugged, radius welded along with 8 rosettes (4 on either side of jointed section)



Bending the upper rails

Welding them on

 

[Bobbed750]

Lower rails not done yet, swingarm and entire pivot section will be removed.

 

[Bobbed750]

Ended up deciding on the sportster tank, The one i had was pretty tired so i picked up a new on off craigslist for 50.00

 

[drewpy]

looking sweet, very nice

 

[Bobbed750]

Oh, and by the way.. the frame is nowhere near done. Have just been throwing parts on to get ideas.

 

[Bobbed750]

Thanks drewpy!

 

[OliverB]

Looks nice! Thanks for sharing & welcome to the Forum.

 

[volcomskater77]

dude. yours looks pretty much like mine. cept for the sigle backbone.

 

[xschris]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Bobbed750]

Thanks guys!

Yea, the sportster tank is hella played... but people like it and this is a "for-profit" bike, so figured I would just go mainstream with it.

 

[volcomskater77]

yeah i agree with the played out sporty tank. those have always been played out lol. i have one just cuz it fits the bike. would love to go with a diff tank like my DT tank or something, but the backbone prevents me from doing so.

 

[Bobbed750]

Yea, that's why I went single on this one. I really dislike"fresco" mounted tanks, and there's not alot of options with the weird triple backbone

 

[Bobbed750]

Your bike looks great though, keep up the good work

 

[Pork Chop]

Looking good mate.

 

[FUBAR]

looks good man!, was it already setup with rear disk or was that your doing?

 

[Bobbed750]

Was already setup with the disk. however, I'm switching it over to drum.

 

[S3Rider]

Is the center tube going to be enough to support the bike? I assume that he will be putting in a down tube off of the Center tube extension. I am looking at ways to HT mine and most that I have seen still keep the Triple backbone and work from the back. I like the look of this one better but is it going to be structurally sound?

 

[Jimbo31]

did you sand blast the engine? how did you get it so nice?

 

[jboyer]

did you sand blast the engine? how did you get it so nice?

it looks like he just repainted it

 

[Scorpio1963]

I take it you will replace the metal tube under the rear of the seat with spring setup?