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blueknight YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 48	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #15 - 05/04/14 at 07:54:37 with a 5 month old and 60 hours a week at work its been hard to get some time in on this bike. however I did get a set of mx style pegs made up and mocked.
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Reply #16 - 05/04/14 at 08:01:09

Prestonean wrote on 04/21/14 at 12:17:46:

Looks great! Hope to see some more pics soon.

That must be the p-nut tank with no tabs? How are you planning to mount it? You think can swap mine onto my factory Savage without too much hassle?

Thanks for sharing!

actually this is the tank with tabs. the swap shouldnt be that difficult, you will just have to go with a different petcock and come up with a way to mount it to the weird square backbone, and relocate your speedo

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #17 - 05/04/14 at 08:29:17 Are those pegs gonna swing up when they start dragging? They look real good..
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #18 - 05/04/14 at 08:58:31 So far so good... Tank looks great on there. Motocross pegs on a rigid? Curious to see where this goes.
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blueknight YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 48	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #19 - 05/04/14 at 10:07:13 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 05/04/14 at 08:29:17: Are those pegs gonna swing up when they start dragging? They look real good.. Yes, they will swing like stock. I cut the hinge off the stock peg and welded it to the ones I made.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #20 - 05/04/14 at 10:12:34 Well,, AYE Like 'em..
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yorbor YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 8 Minneapolis,MN Gender:	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #21 - 05/05/14 at 20:39:03 What size rear wheel/tire are you going with?
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JDK YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 10 Eastern, Pennsylvania Gender:	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #22 - 05/07/14 at 20:53:01 Like where your headed with the frame and tank, nice. I like the pegs too. Keep us posted.
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blueknight YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 48	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #23 - 05/18/14 at 16:07:06 got it set up in a roller temporarily to take some measurements for the shifter and to get an idea on what i need to do about handle bars. im pretty happy with the way it sits so far.
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #24 - 05/18/14 at 23:48:13 Not bad, but you're going to need to run a high pipe or seriously stiffen that front suspension. What's the blue one? Looks an awful lot like a VN900 Custom or a last generation 800 Marauder (M50)...
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blueknight YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 48	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #25 - 05/19/14 at 02:43:48 WD wrote on 05/18/14 at 23:48:13: Not bad, but you're going to need to run a high pipe or seriously stiffen that front suspension. What's the blue one? Looks an awful lot like a VN900 Custom or a last generation 800 Marauder (M50)... That's my 04 Kawasaki mean streak 1600
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #26 - 05/19/14 at 07:12:48 Didn't even see the shocks early this morning... was too focused on the color. Nice looking machine.
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Reply #27 - 07/15/14 at 17:27:40

slowly but surly I hope to finish this bike in time for the fall show season. Since I couldn't find a seat that fit exactly what I was envisioning in my head, I picked up some more leather and tooled my own, came out pretty well for my first time tooling leather. However after mocking it up next to my fuel bottle holder I have decided to make another fuel sling to match the seat.

Also I swapped the handle bars out for a tracker style that I mounted upside down to get the low look that Im trying to achieve . I need to rework the headlight mount a bit more to get it tucked up between the forks

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Dfinn Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 79	Re: 86 budget bobber build (already over budget) Reply #28 - 07/15/14 at 18:34:06 Looking good man!
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Reply #29 - 07/16/14 at 16:51:25

This may be a stupid question, but how do you weld up the hard tail conversion to the top tube?

Everything I read just shows them placed together and is like "just finish the welds!"

But it looks like nothing even butts up against anything. Do you just weld wherever metal is touching or something?

They look awesome, I just can't understand it.

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