1980 Street Tracker

[hogrider]

Picked up a basket case in Nov. 2010, just completed it in March of 2011.

 

[gggGary]

Looks good hog rider.

 

[ArcherSix]

Nice!

Where's you get the tank and seat?

 

[azman857]

That is one sharp lookin' ride!

 

[hogrider]

The tank and rear fender/seat were purchased from Omar's. It just happens that Robert Ward (owner of Omar's) lives 45 minutes south of me. All of the work was done by me, engine work, paint, pipes, brackets,number plates, tail light bracket and turn signal mount, wiring mods, polishing, wheel lacing and trueing. This is my first metric custom after 25 years of building V-twins. Met many great people during this project and made a few friends as well. Time for a break in the action and enjoy the fruits of my labor.


I have recently designed and built two new mufflers for the Tracker. They have given me the sound and performance I was looking for. In total I spent 20.00 and 2 hours cutting pieces and welding them together, what a difference! I will attach photos soon and a short audio/video of the sound and look.

 

[hogrider]

Tried to load video, no luck.

 

[Ghetto]

Looks nice. I would have went with a smaller plastic black number plate myself.

 

[hogrider]

Thanks Ghetto! Well the reason I used the polished aluminum goes like this. The VIN has 69 as the last two digits, thus I was going to use 69 as a number on the plates, well...... My wife thought different after I installed the numbers and I not wanting to upset the apple cart removed them from the plates. Black would probably look good too, I just have not had the time to powder coat the existing plates.

 

[jetero41]

Hogrider, NNIIIICCCCCE.
Whose rear shocks are those?

 

[pregrid]

Talk to me 'bout that tail light. Source, mounting, etc.

Thanks, Dave

 

[hogrider]

The shocks came with the bike when I bought it, all I did was disassemble them, strip off the old paint, repainted them gloss black on the upper spring and gloss red on the lower spring, then polished the spring retainer and adjuster. However I do remember the name as being STREET STROKER, and I don't know this to be true but someone told me it was manufactured by PROGRESSIVE back in the day,they are also 13 inch center to center on the eyes unmounted.

 

[hogrider]

The tail light was purchased from a company I found on ebay. Type in cateye tail light in the ebay browser bar and it should come up, sorry for not providing you with the company name but I tossed all receipts. The mounting was achieved by building an aluminum bracket that attached to the underside of the rear fender, this also allowed me to factor in additional tabs for the turn signals, which I again purchased on ebay from the same company.

Dave, Do you ever get out to ALICE'S on Skyline?

 

[hogrider]

Here are some pics of the new mufflers just in case anyone is interested. These are more than a couple of cans with a pipe in and out, I have designed these with internal baffles that use no fiberglass packing of any kind. If anyone is interested in a short video of the new mufflers and how they sound just PM me with your email address and I will send you an email version, thanks.

 

[pregrid]

Dave, Do you ever get out to ALICE'S on Skyline?

3 or 4 times a year, yeah. Maybe we could meet up there sometime this season. So I found several versions of the "cat's eye" tail light. Did you bolt it on or bond it?

 

[hogrider]

Here is the completed version. I might add that this bike may be up for sale soon!