Jonny69's chopped bikes extravaganza

[Jonny69]

Bike 1

Back in early 2006 I got the urge to do my first bike. I was hacked off with fixing rusty stuff on my car so I thought about something for the summer and something I might mount one of my pulsejets on. I wanted whitewalls, I wanted mudguards, I wanted a rack on the back for mounting stuff on and I wanted practicality so a 1970s folding shopper it should be. Cue eBay and this little beaut turned up:





Perfect I thought and set about some simple plans in the garage to stretch it out a bit to accomodate me, a bottle of propane and something scary behind me. This is what I came up with on Photoshop:



Lugged it back across London on the back of my moped. Couple of hours later in the garage and this is what I came up with, lengthened, lowered, raked and the handlebars pulled right out:





And that's how it stayed for about a year. It went to Lemans with me where it was stolen by bloody pikeys and I thought that was the last I would see of it. Turned out it was a bit harder to ride than it looked and they ditched it and I found it a day or so later which was a bit of luck.

Roll forwards 6 months and I'd scored a really pretty tank off a Kawasaki sommat or other for a 125cc bobber project I had in my head which never surfaced so I decided to put the tank on the bike instead, since it fitted:





And that's pretty much how it is today. I've still got it, it's racked up some serious miles and it's been all over the place with me. Chelsea cruise, Lemans, hotrod events and all round here. I even punched that guy over his bonnet when he tried to knock me off it with his car. Top bike.

Here's a couple of minute videos of me riding it without the tank. They are 3gp files so I think you need Quicktime to play them:

movie 1
movie 2