triumph bobber

like l hav'nt got enough projects to finsh
l started this last week for a another contest
for another board l go to
l started with his $10.00 swap meet find
l got rid of all the stuff l did'nt need and started scracthe building various bits and pieces
l am thinking of a blower or a tubo

WOW got a mate that would love to get his hands on this one. will be watching the out come of this one close.

This looks like its going to be a very cool build. Looking forward to seeing some more progress

Adam

      

Nice start.
I'd go with a blower rather than a turbo and build it with a reversed head.  That way you can sit the blower low down at the front mounted in extended front engine mounting plates.

Goggling "reversed head custom bike" I came across this.

This is going to be a cool build , look forward to seeing more .

reverse head!!! allways thinking outside the box Fred

thanks Zen  for the info
l had thought of that
l had a friend of mine  who ran a reversed head and boy did he have trouble
with cooling it ran great but once you stopped at the lights or go below 50kph the thing would start to cook
they used run that sort of set-up in dragracing

zenrat wrote:Nice start

I'd go with a blower rather than a turbo and build it with a reversed head.  That way you can sit the blower low down at the front mounted in extended front engine mounting plates.

Goggling "reversed head custom bike" I came across this.

Yeah, there's a reason why the exhaust ports are at the front in the air stream.
Looks trick though and sometimes that takes precedence over practicality.
I was actually looking for pics of a specific Royal Enfield Constellation engined lowrider with a reversed head that I remember from about the time John Reed was showing his Virago.  It ticked all the right boxes including a goosenecked frame and Don Blocksidge engraving.

Looking forward to seeing this one come together. Great start.

l really got stalled on this was not happy with the front tire l just did not like 
then got an idea to make my own 
l decided to make one from solid rubber tubing you can see the join on one of the pictures 
and will putting it on the lathe to cut some threads
l have the tins in under coat and plan to paintt in a heavy metal flake
still need to alcad rims and other parts

Looking good.
We went to see Grand Budapest Hotel during the week and in it Willem Dafoe rides a mean looking 40's BMW/NSU/Zundapp (or I suppose it might be a Neval/Ural/Cossack) Bobber.

That is looking way cool Joey, great job so far mate.

Man it looks so real can't wait to see this finished awesome work!

That looks awesome

This is top shelf, straight to the trophy room stuff. Well done!

well it looks not a bad day down here in criagieburn 
so l was going to try my hand spraying some alclad
my problem is l put a base coat of gloss black but now l in 
two thoughts 
 the rims don't look too bad in black 
what do you guys thinks leave black or alclad

Alclad the spokes & leave the rim black.....................or visa versa.

Looks cool black I reckon

now l am getting somewhere those girder forks were killing me the instructions were crap lucky l had a set of 1/1 forks in the garage

now onto paint and wiring

about 90% done stilll need to touch up paint and clear /polish 
 finish off wiring /plumbing 
and machine up some pegs /parts

BLOODY HELL!!  That looks awsome mate, superb paint job, cant wait to see it clear coated and polished. Exhaust has come up a treat too.

I agree with Dee Cee absolutely awesome!!!!!

   

WOW that's Awesome