That has to be THE best looking build I've seen on KZread.i wish you could do my 650 v star like that.beautiful brother just beautiful

That’s one cool looking bike.

YAMAHA XS motor a goodun.Fab

You know back in the early 70s it was either Sportster or Triumphs or of course auctioned cop bikes. Then came the Honda fours. Once in a while some clown would try and chop a Yamaha. It never worked. That sure isn’t the case anymore. I would love to have this Yomamaha chopper. It’s really nice. I love it.

Hopefully your still blazing around on this slick chopper ..👍👏👍

@OldBiker

2 жыл бұрын

Getting on a bit now and does me back in but still have it sitting in the garage waiting for me to take her out!

Great work

Nice bike mate.

Nice chop, very tidy well done. Personally I preferred the 2009 springer version. The great thing about choppers is that they are all individual and made to the owners preferences not others :)

Much nicer now good job

Damn fine job that my man, not at all jealous of the fact that was your first attempt at airbrushing. Even though it best the crap out of my fiftieth😁 lovely stance to her, so much better than the springered original

Good looking chop there!

Love the color and paint job. Great looking bike.

Dude great job. Bike is Beautiful man

Looks better in Blue and the skulls... Cool lacing patern on the rear wheel...😉👍😉

I’m a Harley chopper guy but these foreign bikes are looking better and better! Like the rake and stretch on your frame. To make your bike look great make the bottom frame rail horizontal with the pavement. Install your rear wheel (you can’t change its position!) then lower the front of the frame until it is level with the ground. Then do your measuring for fork length also figuring in your front wheel and tire height. You probably already know this as you built a real nice bike but there might be some guys that don’t. You see a lot of mis proportioned bikes running around. Again real nice job, I have got to try one of these non Harley’s!!!!

@OldBiker

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I agree, when I had a 19" wheel it was just a little high, but once the 21" wheel was on it now sits way too high, I will talk about that in my next video which I am currently working on, I swapped the engine in the chop for another off eBay and will be getting that back on the road as soon as some parts arrive.

Dude, such a cool build. The airbrushing and colour are awesome. Mad ride✌

@OldBiker

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Cruisin, I'll be out and about on it this week sometime as weather here has finally turned out nice for a change!

I like the whole thing

I don't really care for the way the bike looks, but it's a very nice build that looks like a finished thought... well done.

Nice

Very cool mate , Love it .

EXTRA FUKIN COOL!! I LOVE IT...

Shes beautiful!!!!

great looking chop ...sounds fantastic too. Wish mine sounded as good. Think I need to put some wadding back in my silencers as my bike sounds awful. I've really enjoyed your ride vlogs . Its going to be a long winter before I can ride my 79 again so riding along with you and your mates with the sound turned up is a good fix . JohnnyXS

@OldBiker

6 жыл бұрын

Cheers John, yeah winter months suck big time, the chop is just sitting there screaming at me to take her out, and I keep screaming back "its too fkn wet n cold"!! LOL

I love the early versión of the bike aswell so cool!!

So fucking cool!!!! The paint is awesome!!!!

@OldBiker

6 жыл бұрын

thanks, its erm being stripped at the mo due to having some welding done on the frame :/ I will keep the paint job though!

Love it

my dreams ,but I not have money for dream 😭

I noticed your not running a top motor mount..I really like the look... I want to do that to my xs650..would you recommend it..does it vibrate really bad or crack the other mounts? I'm really curious..thanks

@OldBiker

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Dan, I do have a top motor mount, it's just hidden, I wouldn't recommend not having one as it will vibrate a little more, not that you would notice much but that slight vibration could cause issues. I will do a close up of what I made the next time I go out on it.

Awesome bike love the look. How much was it after you finished the entire project?

@vinm300

2 жыл бұрын

£3k I'm guessing.

sweet little beast you built there! those emgo cocktail shakers are a great look, and love the marbling in the paint work. how does the weight compare to the stock one?

@OldBiker

6 жыл бұрын

Hi mate, I'd say it was roughly the same but is more front heavy when pushing it around, easy to ride though, I need to raise the back of the seat up another inch as I feel like I'm sliding off the back, I made the seat risers on a lathe so will just make some longer ones at some point, they are made to just bolt on so changing them will be easy.

@ludditeneaderthal

6 жыл бұрын

OldBiker I can see the seat is a bit low in the back... Those solos seem to really need to be mounted "tail high" with no load on them. With the rake and taller wheel the harder steering is fairly unavoidable, lol. I imagine it also make a pinch more straight line stability too. Definitely a REALLY nice build, very old school, but practical. Gonna replace the CV carbys?

@OldBiker

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I will definitely make the solo seat higher at the back, or even make a seat to suit me, either way it's going to get altered at some point, now the weather here is turning for the better I'll be out on the chop sometime soon. I'll keep the original carbs on for now but me mate Brian has a couple of performance carbs he got for his Triumph, so may give those a go at some point if he not going to use em.

Fantastic looking bike! Was registering it an issue due to frame and engine not matching?

@OldBiker

3 жыл бұрын

Not in the UK, we just change the engine number in the V5 (title), it's the frame number you cant change, the engine is just another interchangeable part, I in over 40 years of riding and driving vehicles have never ever had any of the engine number looked at, when taking for a MOT it is only the frame number that's checked.

I see this is old but soo curious the stock fork tube was in mm ? and then you upgraded to 39mm?

@OldBiker

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Nate, no the original front end was a set of home made springers, after inspection of them, I renamed them to "Death Springers" lol

@natesilva3232

6 жыл бұрын

OldBiker Yeah I wanted to Springer my bike but the risk is not worth my life ,there good I guess but what I read on there history is not so good. I have a metric bike that i want to put a lil rake on but the problem is they dont have ANY custom stuff for my bike ,so if you have ideas I'd like to hear . I dropped a like and sub. My fork tube is 33mm I believe.

@natesilva3232

6 жыл бұрын

OldBiker I see where the mix up is not the rolling chassis but the donor Yamaha, those fork tubes and triple trees in mm?

@OldBiker

6 жыл бұрын

Those are 35mm tubes, if you want springers on a xs650 have a look here - www.tcbroschoppers.com/yamaha-xs650-springer-conversion-kit-with-steering-neck-bearings.html

@OldBiker

6 жыл бұрын

That rigid frame I bought already had a Harley headstock fitted so I didn't have to convert anything, when I put a wide glide front end on it I had to machine some new spacers and then add an old style speedo drive, the only one I could find was for a 19" front wheel and after putting a 21" on it, the speedo reads a little slower than I'm actually going.

Nice ride sir what neck of the woods are you from.

@OldBiker

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Rob, Stevenage in Hertfordshire UK

did you have to do much to fit the harley forks?

@OldBiker

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Jason, I bought the frame as is and the head stock was for a Harley setup to start with, I think on one of my later videos I mention this with a bit of video to show the size difference

Looks great, you should have kept the springer on there

@OldBiker

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Dan, the springers were home made and had no real bearings in the swivel points, they were also pretty rusty so in the end I used the 1" bar from them and made the solo seat supports.

@dannyb20vtec28

6 жыл бұрын

OldBiker cool man..that's a bad ass chop you got there...Im building a xs650 right now. Hardtailed stretched 5 and dropped 3 ..Moto iron springer. Etc. Lots of work left!..I definitely got some motivation to keep wrenching after seeing your bike

@natesilva3232

6 жыл бұрын

dannyb20 vtec Springer can effect some things even though reliable but they have had Springer since 1930 so it's all about safety and hydraulic

you build an amazing bike for sure. i would have chosen a differens rear fender but thats personal. and this is finally one of the good looking bikes. everybody is going weird 70s with these bikes. openexhaust and horrible narrow handlbars and goofy king and queen metalvlake vinyl seat.s and long front ends but with the fram at an angle instead of it being horizontal makes it all just look like crap but thats the style these days. just look at all the bikes at the born free bikse show i love the event look amazing great people and great athmosphere but the style of those bikes are 99% horrible in my opnion. i hate that style you really build the 60s style chopper and i love it. great and amazing work very inspiring. i want to build a chopper to. harley would be best but is crazy expensive in this country. and building a cool frame is crazy hard overhere with laws and stuff. but the saying here is they can make it incredibly hard and expensive but cant make it illigal so wil see. thanks for the inspiration looks great sounds great

@OldBiker

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Vince, when I started the project I wanted the same look as one I had owned many years ago, and I also wanted the easy rider chop look, the one I had years ago had springers on the front which was quite scary at speed watching them bend all over the place lol

@TheyCalledHimTheDude

5 жыл бұрын

yeah i get it. i love the springers but they are pricey and the ride quality is something special to yeah ;) i love the easy rider bike to. but it drove horrible at low speeds he had to fight it constantly but thats the game right looks are everything cause nobody rides a hardtail for the love of it.

What frame

@OldBiker

Жыл бұрын

No idea on the frame, no markings and nothing to say who built it, it looks the part though but it wasn't professionally built as some of the engine mounts are really crappy.

Forks look too LONG? Like that's even a thing?

looks nice but terrible to ride on.