Old school chopper: does this ring a bell with anyone?

[Subike]

How the hell did they sell that garbage against the likes of a CB750 Honda at the time?
"Tradition" & "hard men" i guess.

more like the fact the bikes came from the "little yellow fuckers" who killed so many of their men in the war,
American men had a strong hatred for anything jappa
a badly manufactured Harley was better to turn up at the local bar on than a perfectly tuned jappa,
social stigma against jappas was the hardest thing the jap bikes had to get past.
so a oil dropping trumpy, or a "fall apart" Harley was preferred by patriotic yanks

thus choppers were sometimes just built to be different from the norm, or just because all the "spare" un necessary parts had simply fallen off!

[MeHigh]

Subike u didn't get my drift: softail is a reply for a hardtail not for a chopper! A chopper is a reply for a full dresser. That doesn't have anything to do with american or jappa.
Sidecar Bob, if u had that kind of "misfortunes" u definitely are not in the right place! Just give up! Change u'r job! An 76 Ironhead is a thing o beauty even for the most purist of the mechanics... obviously not for u so just give up! Is a mystery how the fricking hell they hire u guys!
Anyway u just have 2 see if we have lights and shit! Was that Ironhead that slow on blinking? Jizzzsssss... Where r u based?

[Bonez]

thus choppers were sometimes just built to be different from the norm, or just because all the "spare" un necessary parts had simply fallen off!

Or just been removed to reduce weight. A lot of ex-military stuff was put into use. You could get them for next to nothing, rip all crap off, pull a bit more off,a repaint, a few additions here n' there and pesto!! Of course some removed what meager rear suspention there was, removing the swing arm and welding or bolting a triangulted portion tubing or box section to the existing frame and attaching the rear wheel to it-aka hardtail. Some manufracturered a new frame for the purpose or chopped (hence the term chopper) and changed the existing one so much is nothing like the original, just like the one in Subikes pics(fuck that's hideous. Hell you can buy complete frames and bolt whatever donk in it you like. Softtail is just a term to refer to a rear swinging arm setup that looks like a hard tail where the shocks are usually in a horizonal arrangement under the frame.


Good project there Spyder. Well done.

[koba]

Was it built before or after the monocoque racebikes?