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Our Mark has been hankering for a Harley chop for awhile now. Desperate (bless 'im) suggested talking to me about it. He did. A plan was hatched.
I had recently picked up a complete evo lump out of a '97 electraglide with 7K on the clock. so Mark agreed that this would be a good start. We formed a picture of what was wanted, a good bit of rake, not too much stretch.
I sort of prodded Mark in the direction of a FXR softail; partly because it was an obvious choice for this drivetrain, and also 'cos it works very well on the road.
So: here we go, Frame with forks:



Frame, swingarm, rear wheel, & fender mounted:



For the yokes, instead of the usual billet stuff, we're using an old pre-billet trick of turning a stock HD wideglide bottom yoke upside-down. This is a bit more involved when using 3 degree raked ones, as you can imagine.



I'll be doing more on this in a couple of weeks.

Can I have more shots of the rear end and how it all looks and sits please ?

it's called a mudguard.
fenders go round the side of boats.

harleys... pah they are for girls aint they?

There you go again.
Pedant.

I say! thats a fine pair of mudguards you have on your Francis-Barnet, Mr Chumley-Warner!


No.
Not until I've taken some! which will be in a week or 2 when I get back to it.

Lookin good, I'm likin the rear end

I like a nice rear I do

Allow me.....




We will keep this thread going as we progress.

what do you mean WE....Briz is doing all the work !!!!

Nah, there for people with beards (not bum fluff) one day Ant

Hows that Triumph coming on, we're all waiting.

now I ask you does this bloke belong on anything BUT a Harley

And a good job too.....I want it to be straight
Where di you get that picture from? thats not me its my brother

Nice helmet

your only jelous
and erm its sorta getting there a bit... basically finished the main body of the frame now... just waiting for my rear wheel to arrive before i can do the rear section, then its put all the unions into the frame, mount engine and fab lots and lots of cool touches

and phixxer.... nice helmet

Nah, there for people with beards (not bum fluff) one day Ant

Hahahaha, everyone slags harleys till they get one, then its " i only ever ride harleys"

This one looks cool though.

I'll ride anything me, cept scooters, hate little wheels. But I like working on the Harley more than any of me other bikes (which is probably a good thing as I spend more time working on it than riding it ).

gonna be a big tank or a big gap like the one behind it?

Funny you shouldmention that; Mark's been agonising over what tank to use for awhile.
In the end I showed him a Harley Deuce tank which I had on the shelf and we agreed that once narrowed, it'd work out fine.
The tank on the orange bike is also a narrowed deuce tank, but I'm going to narrow this one differently.

We know Nick, we've all heard the rumours

shame on you

rumours, what rumours ......

Its all lies mate

Well, got some more done, mostly tedious stuff that takes forever but doesn't add too much to the overall scheme of things.
Whatever; I'll bore you all with it anyway

Battery carrier with mountings for all the electrics done:



RH side panel:


I used to use japanese style rubber grommets to retain side panels, but never much liked them. Customers would mount ignition switches on them & they'd fall off with the extra weight. Something better needed. So I do this latch mechanism now: Left pic shows finger operating the latch and right shows the barbed bits on the panel itself


Left panel is held by screws accessed when the RH one is off. Holes are for plug leads.


Mark decided against mid-mount pegs in the end so I made up some forwards for him. The Fwd mounts on the FXR softail frame come out 2" further forward than a stock FXST so since Marks legs aren't quite of Twizzle proportions, I set the pegs back a bit. Its all steel; with a fabricated tubular brake pedal. trying to avoid billet stuff at the mo'. Used to be cool but now folks just assume you bought it all off ebay.


LH one is much simpler, thanks to the Electraglide primary which incorporates the gearshift pivot.

Looking real great that , liking the robust look to it all. Keep it coming.