ZZ chop: September 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011

Sold

And regrets already! Insane springer fork that was probably handmade by someone. If anyone knows more about it, let me know.
Good to know it stays close and Paul is going to do something cool with it. He should have a rolling bike with it within 2 months for an upcoming show. I'll keep you guys updated!

Computer cleaning part2

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Amen to that

Found!

Chris sends me these pics of the current state of the XS, now living in Belgium!

it's a bit too rockabilly for my taste, but the overall look is not that bad as I thought. Too bad they ditched the dummy oiltank, and please sand of those logo's and stripes!

Friday, September 23, 2011

Rat bike

ratbike debut in the 1980s? This one looks like it was a nice customized 70s chopper before it was fucked with black paint

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sweet old XS650

Marcel from Germany asked for some more pics of my old XS650 which I sold maybe 4 years ago. Every once in a while people still ask for it and apparently they like its style. These pics were made by the Flying Dutchman for the dutch Bigtwin magazine and the ones with the different tank were for the for sale ad. (It got stripped of some cool parts!) The bike went from hand to hand and finally ended up being even more stripped down and flat black and lost its karma!
The funny thing is that Sik from the greaseheadquarters finally got hold of that awesome sissybar and still enjoys it every day. Mr Magic traded his green XS for an Ironhead sportster and kept the tank which later moved on to Knukkel's pan project. So that's all good!

It was a pretty nice XS at the time, and my first attempt to building an "oldschool" (...yeah, I know!) chopper. Some cool features like the metalflake seat, 21inch front wheel, sissybar and chromed Wassel fender really set it apart back then. the forks were cool too, original 34mm with chromed chopper trees. Still have the tank, risers and Aris!