SavageRichie wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06:team,
have an interest in bobbing the savage or getting a 2nd savage to bob, any year. eitherway, interested in using the stock seat, disregarding the pillion, replacing the turn signals with small bullet chrome units, replacing the front and rear stock fenders with either black or chrome (preferred) bob fenders like the savage owner did on his red bike in gallery pix 109-120 page. will also need a smaller tail light and plate, maybe skull type to keep with bikes current theme. also need fork gaiters, lets go all out
any ideas or suggestions plus best place that has these parts is greatly appreciated. I do not want to cut the stock fenders, not great with blow torch and repaint, easier to buy nice chromed units
thanks
ride forever
richie
Go stock seat, remove the green foam and re-upholster with something neat.
Who needs turn signals? I always forgot to turn mine off anyway. People never look at em, but they see my arm out there.
Gaiters are Daystar 234 series. Lotsa colors, available everywhere online.
Rear fender needs to be 7-7.25" Front fender needs to be gone, or just lightened up a bit. I recommend looking for a front fender for a Savage on Ebay and chopping it up with an angle grinder.
Rattle-can your paint job. I HIGHLY recommend this. You ruin a $200 paint job, you have a bad week. You ruin a $3.49 paint job, you have options. All the good old outlaws used rattle-can anyway. Who wants Captain America? pfft.
Also, if you use rattle-can, you can tell people you did it yourself.
Sometime I need to make a "How-to Paint Your Bike Shiny With Krylon." Basically, pick a color you like in the spray paint aisle, and get some Dupli-Color Automotive Clear Coat.
Remove parts and sand the paint to roughen it, clean it with Mineral Spirits. Tape off holes. Stack some bricks up, or get an old mop handle stuck in the backyard and put the tank on it, along with tins. Do four to six
light coats for coverage. Sand and wipe. Tape off your design or whatever. Go to a sign shop and have some graphics cut on vinyl, use that. Whatever. Do your secondary color, fade it, whatever.
Use a kid's model paint sprayer loaded with 80-20 Krylon/Thinner to do drop shadows or whatever.
Sand and wipe. Duplicolor automotive, 1 coat. Sand, wipe. 2 coats. Sand, wipe. 3 coats. Sand lightly with 600, 800, 1000. Buff, Polish. Done. I really wish I had some of the computer cases I've done photographed. One good thing to do is use the oven at 200 if the wife will let you. You can use a cookie sheet with bricks to hold the tank up.
Tail light mount you can do yourself, too. Get 1/16th steel, angle grind into a square with a ">" shaped tab. Drill holes for a Lucas tail light, license plate, and axle bolt. Bend the ">" (which is the axle mount) over to 90 degrees in a bench vise and put it on the bike. When it gets stolen, you're only out like 20 dollars, instead of 80.
PS Sometime I'll paint Glenn up nice just so I can put up a How-To.
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