Laydout_noma's XS build

[Laydout_noma]

Howdy everyone. Ill go ahead and start by saying I don't have a bunch of build pics because I only really took pics at a good stopping point. But there are some and I'm almost done so I want to show it off. To start with I got this bike from this Neo Nazi looking guy and I thought it was a great deal. Turns out it was actually a piece of Frankensteined shit and I've had to replace almost everything on it. But anyways I'll get to the pics.

heres how it looked when I first got it.

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After cruising it like that for a few months at a couple local shows only it got cold and build time was here. This is a Voodoo Vintage hard tail that my buddy put on at his shop for me.

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Then I replaced that fucked up front end with something I was told is a 76 XS but like everything else so far, it wasn't. So I had to do some modifying but it fits good on there now. And if anyone has any ideas what it might be, I've asked before but I am always open to suggestions. I do know that they are 35mm

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After that I made me a seat.

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Spent weeks making that seat pan, once I finished my buddy was nice enough to inform me I could have used a skate board since thats exactly what it looks like. Then I got it wrapped for cheap. Turned out nice for a $50 job

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Next the tank. I thought this looked pretty cool. I initially wanted it to rust around the tape and when I removed it, it would be rust and shiney metal from a flapper disk. However it sat outside, under shelter, and inside for two weeks and didn't rust, so I painted it with burnt copper spray paint. It turned out pretty nice but I decided to just paint the whole thing a solid copper with pearl.

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I then decided to clean the engine up a bit

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Once I wired it up my buddy told me that I should paint my coils to look like copper tops, so I did. It's hard to notice when everythings on it but it looks cool

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Here it is semi put together with the old paint on the tank

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Then here are the ones with the new paint and the exhaust

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And here is the last thing I got done to it before the weekend ended and cut me off.

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I will apologize, these pictures dont look that blurry on my phone screen. Ill try to stand a little more still for the rest of them.

 

[Airwolfie]

Looks good! I kinda liked the neo nazi thing he had going if I dare say it!!!

The end result is pretty darn slick too, I love the coils, made me chuckle!!!

Also nice bug in the background, any pics of that??!

 

[Laydout_noma]

Haha thanks man. It's been pretty fun tinkering with it so far. The bug is what my dad is building for my sister. It started as a running bug that just needed a wiring harness and has turned into a full rebuild. He's painting it in the next month so ill try to get some pics up of that if you'd like to see them.

 

[neanderthal]

my first thought was damn that bike is short, then oh there it is. Way to stretch it out haha. Thank god you got rid of the Runic "SS" bolts too. a bug and nazi symbols? seems a bit odd.

 

[Airwolfie]

Haha thanks man. It's been pretty fun tinkering with it so far. The bug is what my dad is building for my sister. It started as a running bug that just needed a wiring harness and has turned into a full rebuild. He's painting it in the next month so ill try to get some pics up of that if you'd like to see them.

Yeah I love the old bugs!!