SuzukiSavage.com - how do I rake out and lower my savage?

michael1027214 Ex Member	how do I rake out and lower my savage? 06/01/07 at 20:40:05 i want my savage to have a more chooper look. i was wondering how would you rake out, lower, and take the second seat off and hide all the wires and stuff that is under the second seat? thanks michael
Back to top	IP Logged

tuxedo Senior Member Offline medium pimpin. Posts: 275 Hot Springs, AR Gender:	Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage? Reply #1 - 06/01/07 at 20:49:37 Well, that's easy enough. Read a lot and swing a wrench for a while. Or you can hit the search button up there.... Sorry to be a smart aleck, but dude....c'mon. You want a one paragraph answer to all of that? Ever ask a framer how to build a house?
Back to top	I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. 86 Savage IP Logged

borne2fly

Ex Member

Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage?
Reply #2 - 06/02/07 at 00:12:13

michael1027214 ....... Raking out the front will set you back big bucks just for the frame mod, and it gets even more insane if the rake is so extreme that major gussets are required. Then you'll need to find or make extended forks so it all sits level again, and of course extend the brake lines, etc. The hard part will be finding a frame shop that's willing to guarantee the frame alignment when it's all done.

Now, if you're truly mad (like me) and have deep pockets (unlike me), and really want that chopper look, you might consider replacing the front forks with springer forks, ...... in fact that would probably look so rad even with the existing rake angle that you might not feel the need to hack the frame at all.

The remaining 90% of the job is much easier in comparison

Back to top

IP Logged

Suffrajet

Ex Member

Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage?
Reply #3 - 06/02/07 at 00:50:57

michael1027214 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06:

i want my savage to have a more chooper look.

Just add some longer Forks and chop the mudguards down (I think you might call them Fenders?), then remove the pillion seat, or add a little pad thing instead. Add some wider handlebars with longer risers to make the seat look lower, a slightly fatter tyre at the back and a new paint job to finish off.

I don't know all the details, cos my blokie did mine for me, I just told him what colours and picked the design, but basically that's all he did. Same engine, no frame changes - but it looks like this now:

Sounds awesome, looks pretty good (for a girls bike!) - and I love it!

Suffie

Back to top

IP Logged

sluggo Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline big singles lead, twins follow the pack Posts: 4744 moses lake washington Gender:	Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage? Reply #4 - 06/02/07 at 01:49:24 a picture is worth a thousand words it now has a supertrapp.
Back to top	SINGLES RULE, HARLEYS DROOL IP Logged

Crusher0964 Ex Member	Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage? Reply #5 - 06/02/07 at 04:28:47 Now thems some good lookin chops.
Back to top	IP Logged

justin_o_guy Ex Member	Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage? Reply #6 - 06/02/07 at 05:01:51 Rob, that thing is crying out for a Dyna muffler, or maybe a turn out. Fine look you got there. Is the seat as comfy as it looks?
Back to top	IP Logged

jrm8486 FSO X2 Serious Thumper Offline ride it like you stole it! Posts: 574 Spring Hill FL. Gender:	Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage? Reply #7 - 06/02/07 at 06:47:24 I would tell you to go to the Seegercycle web site,thats where I bought my chopper kit,but I was just there and I think it has been discontinued. I can't find it. This is what it looked like the first day I had it,brand new.
Back to top	IP Logged

Odar Junior Member Offline Odars ride Posts: 93 Stockholm Sweden Gender:	Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage? Reply #8 - 06/03/07 at 13:51:24 This company in Germany still sell the kits. http://www.fs-chopper.de/ Odar
Back to top	Odar Stockholm Sweden IP Logged

WD

Serious Thumper
2005 No Login

Offline

Professional
"scooter
trash".

Posts: 5207
Rosemark TN
Gender: male

Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage?
Reply #9 - 06/03/07 at 14:26:27

Don't cut the frame. Go for an older Frisco style. Keep the controls where they belong, high bars, high mounted tank. Sprung solo seat or rigid mount seat, either works fine.

I have a Honda Rebel rear fender on mine. Lot's of work to finish it off. Eventually...

Still need fender struts, frame struts, seat rear mounts... Oh, that gas tank was made in the 1950s.
-WD

Back to top

On 2 wheels since 7/87

Black and Chrome 2003 1950s style custom

IP Logged

vroom1776

Serious Thumper

Offline

Posts: 2110

Gender: male

Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage?
Reply #10 - 06/04/07 at 08:48:58

mine:

Jesse Ray's:

Neck plasma cut ,lengthened 2 inches top of frame and 4 inches on bottom for a 45 degree rake. Tubes changed from 24 inches to 42 inches. Straight pipe exhaust. Aftermarket turn signals. Slight mod on swing arm to accept 150 x 90 x 15 tire. Frame cut right at shocks and rebuilt for 13 inch wide seat. Suzuki Intruder 1400 gas tank still uses stock gas cap and petcock, 2 inch spacers on back of gas tank to keep tank bottom away from frame. Tag and brake light relocated on side of wheel.

More to come: Tall sissy bar, 230 back wheel with new swing arm, new handle bar, round rear fender.

German w/ springer:

cFlow's ride:

Back to top

IP Logged

borne2fly Ex Member	Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage? Reply #11 - 06/04/07 at 12:13:39 Good stuff, guys! Keep those radical ideas rolling. Suffrajet ...... good handle, love it
Back to top	IP Logged

klx650sm2002

Serious Thumper

Offline

The more I learn the
less I know.

Posts: 2041
Cumbria,England
Gender: male

Re: how do I rake out and lower my savage?
Reply #12 - 06/05/07 at 05:10:09

Jesse Ray's:

Neck plasma cut ,lengthened 2 inches top of frame and 4 inches on bottom for a 45 degree rake. Tubes changed from 24 inches to 42 inches. Straight pipe exhaust. Aftermarket turn signals. Slight mod on swing arm to accept 150 x 90 x 15 tire. Frame cut right at shocks and rebuilt for 13 inch wide seat. Suzuki Intruder 1400 gas tank still uses stock gas cap and petcock, 2 inch spacers on back of gas tank to keep tank bottom away from frame. Tag and brake light relocated on side of wheel.

Nice pipe man.

Clive W Cheesy

Back to top

IP Logged