Hey from Ohio

[kawchop]

Found this forum and it looks like a cool place for chopper people. I live in southeast Ohio and do factory maintenance. Besides the chopper I golf and shoot competition pistol. My bike right now is a 97 Vulcan 800 with 10 degree trees and rear air ride.

[chopper]

Nice ride. Welcome to the forum. Enjoy.

[Xianleather]

Welcome to the forum Gangsta, pull up a rug and get ready to talk some smack!

[beezachoppa]

welocme!

very cool looking ride

[MRimmer]

Welcome to the site and I have to say

I have never been a kaw fan but damn you got the SHIT! on that bike

VERY NICE!

[bluvet79]

Welcome from Albuquerque Love the bike and I have to know where did you get the Trees and Forks? My wife and I both ride Vulcans, I have a 97 1500 and she has an 01 800....

[kgdb]

Originally Posted by kawchop

Found this forum and it looks like a cool place for chopper people. I live in southeast Ohio and do factory maintenance. Besides the chopper I golf and shoot competition pistol. My bike right now is a 97 Vulcan 800 with 10 degree trees and rear air ride.

Hey man, dig that ride! Cool. Welcome to our forum!


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[LB]

Welcome to the forum !!! Nice bike

[kawchop]

Originally Posted by bluvet79

Welcome from Albuquerque Love the bike and I have to know where did you get the Trees and Forks? My wife and I both ride Vulcans, I have a 97 1500 and she has an 01 800....

Thanks guys, the bike is a blast to ride and it really is a backyard chopper with everything being in my garage or at work. The handlebars are 1" black pipe bent with a conduit bender and welded up.

The trees I made from a piece of billet, having machining equipment at work helps a lot! The forks are stock units I extended 4 inches, but Forks by Frank sells longer tubes for Vulcans, I'm putting leather wrap on the tubes between the trees to cover the welds. I just built a set of longshot fishtails and put a hypercharger on, will post some pics tom.

[kgdb]

Originally Posted by kawchop

Thanks guys, the bike is a blast to ride and it really is a backyard chopper with everything being in my garage or at work. The handlebars are 1" black pipe bent with a conduit bender and welded up.

The trees I made from a piece of billet, having machining equipment at work helps a lot! The forks are stock units I extended 4 inches, but Forks by Frank sells longer tubes for Vulcans, I'm putting leather wrap on the tubes between the trees to cover the welds. I just built a set of longshot fishtails and put a hypercharger on, will post some pics tom.

I dig the overall look of your ride. I am however not a huge fan of raked trees but a minimal amount of degree is cool, have you calculated your trail as it is with the 10*?

Can you explain the your method of extending the tubes? We used extensions back in the day and are probably lucky to be alive after those years. Back then we didnt have a clue what rake and trail was! I would never extend tubes again.



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