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Honda vt600 shadow bobber

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Internal throttle/frontend/pipes/breather open carb ....siiiiiiiick

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Shovelhead bobber motorcycle

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Shovelhead bobber

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Knucklehead salt flat racer

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Sara Eileen and her customized Triumph Bobber.

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Jacquie and the bobber on Flickr.

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let us all die young

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Xs?

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Favorite.

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Carey Quinton Haider | www.careyquintonhaider.com

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Yes.

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so since Indiana weather decided to shit the bed and go back to freezing and snow for like 2 days I got stuck inside. Basically this week I bolted the cross bar for the seat decided to scrap the springed seat and flush mount it...in a saving grace to my ass I bolted two 1.25" robber stoppers to the cross bar with some simple bolts and locking nuts. Then built my seat, 4 layers of yoga mat foam then shaved it with a knife then a jig saw, the pleather from the stock vt600 seat a shit ton of spray glue and about 40 rivets. Marked center on the nose of the seat and spaced the rivets 1.25" apart and .5" in, drilled through replaced the carriage bolts and then glued the metal and foam and just built it up shaved it marked my pleather cut about 2.5" outside of my line and began on the center rivet then the back and side to side working opposite sides to stretch it properly, it turned out pretty slick for not spending anything on it. That's right for-motherfuckin-free. The rubber washers cost about .60 each and the bolts all together may have been $2.5 at max.

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Cut my girlfriends yoga mat for the seat padding before work...dreaming of building right now not being stuck inside...also having a nightmare of the gf realizing what I did when she gets home hahaha

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All in all a pretty successful day for shitty weather and an electrically fucked bike. Sanded to bare metal and primed the rear fender...like an idiot I didn't fully mount it where it goes so I'll be re doing that paint job. But it looks good Cut the flat seat bar for the springs or whatever I put for the seat. Drilled two holes and into the frame and secured it with carriage bolts and some loctite. Used some quarter inch steel round bar to mock the struts up, did pretty good for just bending them over the corner of the patio table. The left side bend is higher for chain clearance, plan on torching the ends red hot and beat the living shit out of them to flatten them then sand em curved and bolt them on. Took off the tank to asses the wiring situation, ripped my fuel line in doing that so the bit of gas in the line/carb got all over the engine and me...my hands still smell like gas after 6 washes. Took off the petcock and drained the tank as much as I could. Need to take it to metal and prime it too. Cut and bent my seat hinge out of the left over street sign from the seat. Then it started to rain so until next time.

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Ahhhh and the first fuck up begins. So today I decided to take my crack at hiding some switches and cleaning the bars. Well I did it successfully...until I pressed the starter and fucked something up. So as for the good, I used a tjbrutalcustoms.com stripped down wiring diagram for a base and took apart the left hand controls, installed an on-off-on switch in place of the hi lo beam lights, so I can have the lights in an off position to conserve battery. So I drilled a hole into the side of my head light installed the switch and wired it up. Worked perfect everything was still good. Move on to the kill switch on the right hand control. Do a pre test, bike still works. Take off the switch put on an on-off spst toggle test wire it all together flip it into off turn the key...lights up...flip the switch to on(run) press the starter button....FLASH of the lights and nothing works now. Fuck my life. Spent the next 2 hours tracing wires and checking fuses to still be dumbfounded. So until tomorrow...hopefully.

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We're getting there, seat pan made today out of an old street sign and some poster board cut it and sanded it down just deciding on cheap ass z bars and a brake light and I'll be on the road

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Cardboard mock up, knocked out the license/brake light mount today too