Choppers Australia

It's been a bit quiet lately in our household with my Triumph Chopper reaching a good resting point, given the need to focus some attention on our '49 Ford project too. But bubbling away in the background has been the idea of a father/son Triumph Chopper... I picked up a 1964 Triumph Bonneville pile...

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Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:44 pm

Luv' it..that looks super cool !!

Thanks mate, very much appreciate the encouragement!

Nice work!

Wow, that is so good, great job. I really like the way you did it and the way it sits now compared to with the original frame. Thanks TriNortchopz, that means a lot. The rolling chassis, with the dimensions and lines has worked out far beyond my expectations! The overall length being so big has giv...

With the Ledslead weld-on kickstand now in place, the rolling chassis is complete and has now come home. https://i.ibb.co/g9XTFrm/Front3qtr.jpg This picture shows a before & after of the frame chop, and really highlights why we went to the effort of doing it. As good as it looked before, it looks a ...

Wow starting to look very complete

I finally got to see the completed roller in person on the weekend when we dropped the kickstand off to Tom, and it looks absolutely amazing! The size, dimensions and lines on this bike have turned out way better than I could have imagined. And for someone my size (being 6 foot tall), it's a nice bi...

That's a lot of work, well done!

Not easy hiding everything on a modern bike that's for sure

Yeah looking at the sa.gov.au website it states: A motorcycle must have sufficient ground clearance so that no part of the body work or frame will contact the road when one or both tyres are deflated. Seems like a weird way to measure ground clearance rather than just giving a dimension!? WA has not...

Prof the hardtail has 6" of rear stretch.

I haven't seen the roller since it's been finished but during mockup we measured the ground clearance at 105mm, but I imagine it might have dropped a couple of mm. We're cutting it close, and we still have to add a kick stand yet, but I think we'll scrape by.

After a stressful few weeks and a lot of back and forth between the certification company and my fabricator, our Chopped and stretched little frame loop has now passed the inspection stage and I have 7 pages of detailed certification reports on the frame stating an "Absence of Discontinuities" for a...

That's come a long way, well done!

We did the inspection last week, and found one weld joining to the cast neck assembly had a slight crack (due to some evidence of brazing residue), another at the neck assembly has what appears to be a slight gas bubble (quite deep) but told not worth worrying about, and the weld at the join on the ...

Jesus you were lucky to walk away from that one! Thank god you're all ok.

RIP to the poor roo

This is excellent and very useful, even in other states.

Thank you!