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Hi all,
Been lurking on here for long enough, so thought I'd start a build thread on my café project. I was half way through another project (a Guzzi café) and started to think about what to do the next. By chance I got talking to a chap who was selling a chopped Ironhead XL1000 Harley for the widow of a friend who'd died awhile ago, since when the bike had stood unused. It was cheap and came with a rebuilt engine and a £3000 of receipts for the work. I went to see it and bought it.
I then got a tour of the small workshop where the chap repaired old frames and made new replicas of Norton frames. I was impressed with their work, and once the bike was home, I decided to order one of their frames, which had to be made for me as the old Ironhead motors have slightly different mounts to the modern Evo Sportsters. I also ordered an oil tank and slim line petrol tank.
A few weeks passed while I waited for my frame, in the meantime I stripped the old Ironhead down and did a little tidying up on the engine cases..
The only thing I'll keep from the doner bike is the engine..
Polishing the primary cover by hand.. takes a long time..
Been lurking on here for long enough, so thought I'd start a build thread on my café project. I was half way through another project (a Guzzi café) and started to think about what to do the next. By chance I got talking to a chap who was selling a chopped Ironhead XL1000 Harley for the widow of a friend who'd died awhile ago, since when the bike had stood unused. It was cheap and came with a rebuilt engine and a £3000 of receipts for the work. I went to see it and bought it.
I then got a tour of the small workshop where the chap repaired old frames and made new replicas of Norton frames. I was impressed with their work, and once the bike was home, I decided to order one of their frames, which had to be made for me as the old Ironhead motors have slightly different mounts to the modern Evo Sportsters. I also ordered an oil tank and slim line petrol tank.
A few weeks passed while I waited for my frame, in the meantime I stripped the old Ironhead down and did a little tidying up on the engine cases..
The only thing I'll keep from the doner bike is the engine..
Polishing the primary cover by hand.. takes a long time..