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For now I shall give this bike the name "La Otra Mujer." For those non espanolo speaking individuals it means "the other woman." My wife is spanish and she hates the name so it must be a good one. Enough words, we're all picture whores, lets get to the progress thus far.

Here she is when I first bought her:


Gotta have a bad ass rolling work station:


Tear down pics are boring but what the hell I'll give you one:

Point of no return:


Ardtail from Ardcore Choppers:


Here's the front motor mount. BobberXS made this for me. Matches the rear motor mount perfectly


All lined up


Chopped off more shit:


Here's a peak at the blue metallic wheels (powder coated). Pics of them with white walls and shiny rotors will be coming soon. Just so sexy


To Be Continued…….
 
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Looking good. I cut the neck gusset out too. Makes it look a whole lot better. Opens it up a bit. Alot of guys will argue that you need it but i see guys cutting the top mount brace out. I'd be more worried about that one.
 
Update time!

Wheel Porn? Yes Please! 16x3 fronts from a Harley Fatboy sporting 130/90-16 Shinko white walls. 11.5" rotors sure are pretty….for now


Now I have to figure out how to get this sprocket to fit this wheel. I'll have to get a spacer machined when I get to the point of mounting the chain I guess.


Just more chopping and grinding. I can take that tab off the front of the neck right?


Decided to piece together an engine jig for the frame because of all the grinding and welding I'll be doing.


I went ahead and sprung for a DNA Springer. Thank God for the wheels or else I might as well be copying a couple other dudes one here.


Installed the springer and because I was about done for the day I had to do a quick mockup with the wheels. Still need to flip the rockers. This bitch is gonna be bad!


Oh and here is the new upper tree I got for the springer so I could run 1" handlebars with the standard 3.5" spacing. Its way better looking than what came with this springer. I have a set I wanted to run from a previous bike and of course they won't work on this bike. The pullback is just too much.


To Be Continued…….
 
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Love it,saw a pair of these rims and wasnt sure on them...but hot damn that is beautiful!
 
Time to whore out some pics……

Welded my exhaust mounts and mounted my pegs (Monstercraftsman). Also welded up the brake pivot (Hughs Handbuilt).


Here I have mounted my license plate stuff. Horizontal plates suck but I thought Florida required that now so better safe than sorry.


Picked up this sexy Anvil Customs seat off ebay for a crazy good deal and put a biltwell hinge on it. Seat is top notch


And Mounted on the bike!

 
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Jesus I haven't done shit during the holidays. Here's where I'm putting the rear master cylinder. Got more parts coming so hopefully I get more done soon.
 
Excuse the lack of updates. My rotary grinder took a shit on me as well as my welder. Here is the direction I'm goig with my fender though.
 
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I've slacked so here are some updates. RobD, from this forum, is helping with my welding because my welder took a shit, so thanks Rob.

Here is where the tank is going (I'll post some pics of the mounts later)


Here is the rear caliper bracket I designed on Solidworks (caliper will be on the bottom)


And here the fender is mounted (still have a bit more trimming to do)

 
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