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Reply #15 - 05/26/13 at 14:59:17

paulmarshall wrote on 05/26/13 at 13:42:34:

I am interested in close ups of the chain guard.
Whats that attached to the swing arm? Looks like something to protect the chain hitting the swing arm.

He made the chain guard, I'll try to get more pix. The chain lays on the swing arm when there's no weight on the bike. I think the pad is an unresolved detail. I should give him a piece of Delrin for it.

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PerrydaSavage Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Riding "The Rock"! Posts: 3522 Republic of Newfoundland Gender:	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #16 - 05/27/13 at 00:17:17 Very, very nice indeed!
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Reply #17 - 05/27/13 at 03:08:55

CommanderChaos, please accept my congratulaitons... your customising the Savage is one of the most elegant renditions I have come across in a looong time !

I am extremely interested in how you moved the footpegs to the rear, in order to give the bike a "classic" stance, as I have been considering such a change myself.

I also like the sprung seat and would like to know if the seat is a "modified Savage original" of an aftermarket item...
...in which case, how you went about fabricating the front mount and fitting the rear springs.

The front fork appears to be original (but I am not sure) but I would like to know how you went about locking the front drum to the fork tubes... did you bolt it to the caliper mountings?

Rear wheel: you could have kept the original drum and relaced it to a 18"-19" wheel; instead I see you went for a completely new wheel: what size tire?

Last... was the "bottle silencer" sourced through Royal Enfield ? Cool

And the air pump really fits in the overall picture !

Againm congratulations for an exquisite job ! Cool

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Reply #18 - 05/27/13 at 05:18:47

Just to reiterate, this is my dad's bike, none of mine are this nice. Thanks to all of you for the positive feedback. He's finding it very gratifying.

The seat was aftermarket, and the silencer was a reproduction item for a BSA. I have him looking for pix of the footrests while he was making them. It was pretty involved.

Something that bears mentioning is that there was quite a bit of torch work putting this together. He sawed the swing arm apart and welded it back together to narrow it. Other lugs and such were welded or brazed on for the seat, fenders, etc. He's digging out more build pix.

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old_rider Serious Thumper Offline Backyard Bill Productions Posts: 3147 flordia panhandle Gender:	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #19 - 05/27/13 at 07:44:24 Very clean, nicely done! Lotsa time involved it looks like...and tons of talent! Congratulations on a beautiful build!
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arteacher Serious Thumper Offline Ride as if your naked and invisable! Posts: 2581 London ontario Gender:	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #20 - 05/27/13 at 08:04:38 Beautiful, but it's gotta have knee pads.
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CommanderChaos YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 13	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #21 - 05/27/13 at 15:46:26 Here's some more detail pix. One of them shows the drum bolted to the caliper boss:
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apache snow-FSO Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 509 Gender:	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #22 - 05/27/13 at 15:50:17 It wouldn't hurt to resize your pictures. They are much too large.
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CommanderChaos YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 13	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #23 - 05/27/13 at 16:31:54 Get a bigger monitor
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apache snow-FSO Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 509 Gender:	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #24 - 05/27/13 at 16:35:28 I have a big monitor
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paulmarshall Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1268 Carterton,New Zealand Gender:	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #25 - 05/27/13 at 17:12:27 My monitor is a 27 wide screen and your pics are too big for me as well.
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paulmarshall Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1268 Carterton,New Zealand Gender:	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #26 - 05/27/13 at 17:13:23 Good quality pics tho.
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CommanderChaos YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 13	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #27 - 05/27/13 at 18:04:26 I was kidding about the monitor. On my Mac if you hit "command -" the pix get smaller. Probably something similar on windows. You could also open the pic in a new window. I'll try to get around to scaling them down tomorrow.
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paulmarshall Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1268 Carterton,New Zealand Gender:	Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard Reply #28 - 05/27/13 at 18:20:32 What size sprockets are they?
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Re: Custom Suzuki Savage - Retro Standard
Reply #29 - 05/28/13 at 09:29:46

paulmarshall wrote on 05/27/13 at 18:20:32:

What size sprockets are they?

From the looks of the pictures......they are really big sprockets! Grin

Sorry......I could not resist!

That is a great conversion.....really looks nice and will get a lot of people stumped as to what kind and year of bike it is. Thanks for posting.

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