| Sean has a killer hotrod rigid he built. It's based on a slick Dirty South double wishbone down tube goose necked frame, a Jeri's Springer, Hyperformance King of Cubes motor, Baker Trans, Bandit Clutch & Primary and the list of trick parts just goes on. It Was painted by Justin at JB Graphics. It's Featured in the June 2010 Issue of Easyriders. Growing up in a bike shop, it's been a deam of mine to have my fab work photographed by Dino Petrocelli and have it appear in a feature in Easyriders. Please look below to see the fabrication work that I put into what I believe to be the nicest chopper ever built. |
| This motor is BADDDDDDD! Billet steel cylinders, super high flow ported heads, heavily modified cases. Randy T builds a bulletproof motor built to be used. |
| The 3 Guyz sprotor is really trick. It uses this huge sprocket to not only insure wicked wheelies, but better leverage for braking. They use special ARP hardened fasteners, as does everything else on Seans bike. Totally stainless throughout. I cut the frame mounts and made new ones to center caliper on the rotor when the wheel is moved to the center ofthe frame. |
| I've re-made the motor mount using the center portion and making new extend ends and hidden bolt mounts to fit the stroker motor. |
| I've re-worked the foot controls to fit the frame and work properly with the Kustom Tech Master cylinder and clear the RB Racing Exhaust. As it was, the arms hit the frame, the master cylinder hit the exhaust. The challenge was getting the foot pedals to run in line with the frame perfectly and still function properly. |
| I've shortened the hand pieces for the bars and welded them together at the right spot for Sean. |
| I've also made the switch plate and incorporated it into a battery hold bracket. Next I ran a piece of vinyl edging around it to seal it to the trans and bottom of the starter hiding the switch wiring. |
| I re-worked the battery box to fit the frame properly and clear the transmission case. |
| I've made stainless fuel and oil lines are finished and I'm ready to break everything down for Justin Barnes to paint and Sean to assemble. |
| I've cleaned the tunnel on the tank and made the axle spacers from stainless steel |
| A sneak Peek at the amazing paintwork from JB Graphics www.jbgraphics.com |
| I've shortened the super cool headlight bracket a couple of inches to match the front ends line and polished my welds off. The reg/rec is mounted on a couple or brackets I put together to hide it under the trans. |
| I've extended the controls to reach Seans foot and added an extension to bolt the shift linkage to, Next I made the mounts for the muffler to have a hidden fastener with this trick bracket and added the heat shield to the exhaust. Now I added a diffuser to the exhaust as well as heat and tweak it to run evenly with the frame rails. |
| After I re drilled the left rear motormount hole to center and align the motor, I raised the transmission mount 1/4" to align the transmission vertically with the motor. Next I clearanced the frame and re-welded it before smoothing it out. Now I measured the proper offset on the primary, once I received it I machined a half an inch off of the Bandit inner Primary to get the needed clearance between all of the moving parts after i got them all aligned. |
| I've removed the seat mount and welded on this nice Fab Kev piece. Next I welded on the rear spring mounts in just the right spot for Sean. I also re-shaped the bracketry and mounted the tail light from Fab Kev so it didn't point at the ground and cleared the stainless oil line system i made. |
| I've re-worked the fender mounts to fit the tire & frame properly. I've also re-made the motor-mount and raised the transmission to the proper place. I've drilled, welded and hidden all of the access holes for a hidden wiring harness and ran stainless wire throughout the frame coming out in the proper places with a not for each wiring loom.. |
| The first challenge was assembling the parts Sean brought me. The 200 tire was too wide for the brake mounts and didn't match the trans location. The motor wouldn't bolt in straight and the trans sit too low to align with the motor and allow a primary to clear the frame. The shot to the left shows all the parts lining up to the laser on my frame table. Next I cleaned, shaped and closed the notch in the frame with 11g where the oil fitting needed a place to be. |
| Congradulations Sean, you deserve it after the years of planning and hard work you put into building this bike. I've sold Easyriders and dreamed of having a bike I have so much work into being completed so beautifully by a Proud owner and having it featured in Easyriders. Click the cover to go to the Easyriders website. Click the photo credit to go to Dino Petrocelli photography. He is one of the best and most respected in this industry. I couldn't be more proud. |