Below is a photo of the modifications made to the voodoo vintage hardtail.

It looks good!

I think you should have mounted the idler sprocket solid like the skate board wheel was.....or make the tensioner so there is no spring and the arm bolted into place.

I believe that when you let off the throttle and the engine compression brakes......the bottom chain is going to go into tension and it will pull the chain down and the chain will hit the tensioner spring.

It's looking great! Just curious if you think there's room to fit a 150 rear tire on that tail or do you think everything is tight already? It's the clearance between the tire and chain that I'm concerned with. I'm stalled on mine cause I can't commit to a rear tire size. It's either going to be a 130 or a 150. I did some number crunching and determined that the 150 should be possible but numbers on paper and then the way things actually come out can be different.

Looking good   I love the colour as well  

it looks absolutely stunning! I really like it. everything looks perfect and the color of the bike is very "in theme".

If you need help with wiring questions feel free to shoot me a dm. It's really hard to kill those starters, hopefully you havnt. Really like what you've done so far.

We left Columbus to head up to the Fuel Cleveland show this weekend.  We had 4 shovelheads, a cb750 and a turbo kz900 along with my 06 s40 chop. My bike did pretty well until she got beaten down by the pothole friendly nature of Cleveland streets.  One pothole smashed by brake light bulb and the next one on the way home caused my bike to backfire real bad immediately after.  

My other buddy blew the coil on his shovelhead at the sametime and we just loaded them up a truck and drove back to Columbus.  I was having issues getting fuel to flow into the carb (flows fine from petcock).  After limping her around a little bit the fuel flowed better but I keep lagging and surging when I am on the throttle.  Seems carb related, so I will be disassembling and going through the carb once again.

Ice cream is the key ingredient to a happy chopper ride and pivotal when waiting for on the shovelheads chase gremlins.  One shovelhead lost his rear brakes while the other had some tranny issues.


Tyler's shovel ended up blowing his battery at 2am (2 other shovels would end up doing the same thing in the next 12 hours!)


Dan's battery goes boom. Kyle leaves to go get Dan a battery and his blows up on the way. Sidenote, don't use cheap batteries with plates that will vibrate loose and destroy the cells.


Right after I started backfiring like mad.


At least we magically ended up breaking down right next to where Kyle's brother lived.

So I was able to track down the issue that happened after I hit that pothole.  When I hit the pothole my bike immediately started to backfire.  I could idle fine and ride at low speeds, but it would continue to backfire under rpm load.  It ended up being the connector to my pickup coil.  The pothole loosened it enough so that the vibration from the high rpms would break the connections.  Of course I didn't figure this out until after I rebuilt the carb and reseated the exhaust to remove any leaks.  I'm just happy that it ended up not costing me anything!

I purchased a Fuji x100 to take some black and whites this summer. We had a chopper party, Pinned, here in Columbus and I was able to get some pretty cool shots.

My ls650.


My bad to the bone pup.


Buddy's Turbo Kawasaki 900.


Kyle kicking over his shovel.


This weekend we are going to Smokey Mountain Chopperfest in North Carolina.  Hopefully I wont have any trouble this time!