batman wrote on 11/30/19 at 13:27:59:I could never get my head around what both Ryca and VV did when they made their frame designs , If you look at VV web site , nearly 75% of the bikes are unfinished , but only in one aspect , the rider foot pegs and shift /rear brake controls , frankly because of to little ground clearance . with both wheels on the ground there is about 3 1/2" where there was 5 1/2" stock . Lowering the front forks to level the frame rails under the motor just compounds the problem. If I were to use one of these frames I would bolt the motor in , then build the bike working from the ground up ,rather than from the top down.
Oh I dunno about VV - I would think forks are your choice in a VV so a lower bike may be due to someone picking too short a set of forks for the rake ?
With the RYCA, 1/2 the time I see the bike craned over on the side stand, making me think its higher than stock, of course that's the café, not the chopper.
However TBH, no one should chop this bike or "cheat chop" like I did with the triples without a set of dirt bike forks for it. One of those 89 KX250 like I used or nearly a whole slew of dirt bikes any number of which will work awesome. Machine the triples to that fork spacing and to carry the savage steering stem, flip the legs right to left and it can easily handle 12 extra degrees and handle lighter than stock.
If you cut the frame, stretch it 2" at the top and 4" on the bottom. That way you can run the whole dirt bike FE triples and all. Just make sure your donor has a 30/25 stem dia at upper and lower bearing, like the savage does. So Suzuki DR series from the late 80's is a good bet. Likely kawi as well, not honda/Yamaha. However I think they all have 30 lower, those 2 have 28 upper, still useable because you can get 28/55 but only in the ball kind. not tapered roller kind.
Cool.
Srinath.