Well guys, I finally got the scrambler build to a point that I needed to get some welding done.  As I mentioned earlier in this post, I have no welder...or welding skills.  That needs to change in the future.
Yesterday I dropped the bike off at a local bike shop that specializes in choppers, but typically works on anything.  They have a pretty good rep in town, and seemed a little excited almost about my slightly out of the ordinary project, so I let them do work.  It looks like they are going to do 4 things for me.
1.  fab top tubes and mounting points for the front of the tank, rear of tank and same for the seat.
2.  Lengthen the swingarm 2"
3.  fab a stainless steel highpipe (example pic below) after I bring them an Emgo shorty reverse cone muffler 17"(ordered and on its way)
4.  move my forward pegs and controls to mids after I bring in some take offs from something (any suggestions here?) for them to work with.
I'm a bargain hunter at heart so I was a little set back by how much this would cost, but that's what I get for not having these skills or tools and that's what they get for having them.  Plus I don't want this to be shoddy work.

Anyone care to take a guess at what all of this work will cost?

mpnoffi wrote on 03/29/11 at 18:30:02:


Or you can notch the crossbar.

A brake pedal from any standard bike with a drum brake should work -- the kind that's connected to the brake arm by a rod instead of a cable. Then you just need to find a rod that's long enough, or adjust the length of whatever you find.

looks awesome

I love it!  Very cool.

Thanks guys!  I'm getting pretty stoked about this thing too.  I'll probably end up riding the pee pee out of this thing for the rest of the summer, then make it look like something over the winter...we'll see.  I'm having a blast with it. Next up is giving the bike a good once over to make sure that everything has been snugged down good and tight.  Then I need to take care of a few things on the motor like the verslavy mod, adjust valves, plug leak, jetting for the new pipe and filter pod etc...
After I build a battery box similar to the Casey's on the Ryca, mount some oval shapped number plates on the sides and add a tail light/license plate mount I'll be ready to ride for the summer!

Here's were I'd place it...
There's a rear motor mount bolt, exchange that for one of the long front ones.  And mount the foot peg plate between that and the muffler bracket mount with the other long bolt.

The '86 savage had a different set up.  It used a plate like the right side.  Buy one of those.  Now you got a plate for the left side that just enough back that you can use the same linkage arrangement.

Of course you'll need to space it out from the front like what's currently up front.

How familiar are you with the Tipton/Shelby line at Hwy 14? My 98 LS650 barhopper is parked right next to a 1963 Honda CL72 that has been both a Scrambler and a cafe racer in previous lives... I'm on Deadfall Rd, right on the county line. Can't miss it, C60 bucket truck in the front yard, 49 Dodge truck in my driveway.

Welders, forges, tons of donor metal here. You're welcome to come by any weekend except the night of Friday May 20th. Just PM me ahead of time.

CL frame is uncut if you need some factory Scrambler references.

Cold PBR (best beer for working on bikes, you pee more than you get sloshed) in the fridge.