chopper

Hey Everyone, First time posting here, but I'm coming over from dotheton, and lurking on a few other forums for info, education, tips and tricks. I've been tinkering around a bit with my other two builds, which I have come to accept will be the longest builds ever. Here's another one that I'm...

Here is my freshly completed (today actually) XS400 And my helper

So, I got my hardtail kit from Trav about a month ago, here she is. Handmade back bone, 9" stretch, handmade gussets. Next gonna cut out the mid control/swingarm mount area and replace with tubing and put in cross braces. Took pictures the whole way along and will be starting a build thread...

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...

Saw this surfing the web http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=17022.0 Thought it was cool I love the frame, seems the build never got done.

So i have decided i want to make an old school chopper out of my bike and i have ordered a hardtail kit from travis. I want to go completely flat black on everything i can on the bike which brings me to my question. I want to get the entire engine powdercoated but im not sure if i need to take...

Hello I am Matthijs i'm 30 years old, i am from Holland , Europe and i am rebuilding a xs 400 se '81. I want to build a hardtail so I bought this bike for € 250,-. because I don't wanted this to be a very expensive project. I thought , that this is a bike with a good looking enige. So this...

Well this is what I have so far until the funds present themselves for the seat, rear sets, and a few other details hopefully including a good over-bore one these days.

Has anyone yet mounted an alien style gas tank on the XS 400? I'm curious how that would fit and look like with the tripple backbone.

ok so here goes, just bought an xs400 chop of ebay needs a little work to get road legal, but not much, am stuck with a few bits though. according to the engine number its a 78 american import (being english) but the wheels are off an 81 and the tank is off an 80 and the frame is made from the...

So all of a sudden I got a bug to do another bike build, My first was doing up a 2007 victory vegas which i found out was way too much fucken money when it was done so now im doin a budget build, i've bought most of the stuff off here and i'm keeping my budget under $1,000 including the bike...

I put some photos up a week or so ago and had a few requests for a video. I still want to get one going down the road but I need to find a cameraman and time to do it.

Hey folk, I've been wondering if you could hook me up with some ideas of how to put a Sportster tank on the XS without major mods to the frame. Basically, this is how I want the tank to sit on the frame, I like the Frisco look to it. I could weld some plates to the front and reuse the...

Ok, in my quest to have a tank that's just a little different I stumbled across a few different ones. My question is: If I find something that has a relatively wide channel for the frame but just isn't quite wide enough could it be hammered to fit? I followed the how to thread Skillzman did on...

this guy built an xs400 chop, totally maaad and baaad! clicky on picky for blog

Hello , i'm french and i built a hartail chopper sorry for my bad english , the project is not finished . Uploaded with ImageShack.us I'have a lot of work on the fram is not finish.

Hey guys, thought it was about time for me to share some pics of the progress on my xs400 build :) but first a small introduction I still owe you guys: I'm 22 years old, have no background in mechanics or w/e, have had some experience fixing up mopeds/scooters but not a lot! Wanted to try...

I have an old '78 XS Special in my shed thats been there a few years. I'm in the process of hard-tailing it and was wondering if there is a set of springer forks that will more or less be a bolt-on affair for the front end. Any help is appreciated!

come across a guy on the xs400.de site who built an xs400 chop. just needs to fit electrics