Feb 5 2012
81 Aussie bobber
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Phil – Been building this thing for over a year now and just gotta find a good rear guard that complies with Australian laws (Not Short Bobber) though that’s what I want (sad aye ?)
It was a basket case, totally although it was running, everything was painted flat black including the motor. A lot of hand polishing later and here it is.
cheers Phil.
nice job on the build……….it sounds like pretty soon you aussie’s will have to get a permit to put a shrimp on the barbie!!!!!!
Queensland Australia is DEF the hardest state on modified bikes,
however I will still play their game until after the bike is Registered
then see how far I can go with bobber rear fender
and removing the front fender.
Phil, Your Bobber is coming along well, being in Sydney I sympathise with you. Get it legal then do your own thing, it seems everyone else does, look at Deus eXMachinafor example, they sell those things form a show room and wouldn’t comply with any of our ADR’s! and they sell them for $15k+ If you can’t please em, stuff em.
Looks like the hard work paid off. The bike is looking great!! Like that paint on the tank
this bike ROCKS !! I’ve seen many a cool bike on this site and a small few have really grabbed my attention…..this one definately did just that…..excellent job…..well done Phil……rock on !!!
Nice paint work.
I was looking at the Gravel Crew style of bike when I started out with this bike
and most of my mates reckon it would all right so thats where I got my ideas from
my Engineer said I could bend and tack welds on the frame, but welds had too be
finished by a engineer welder person, Ive spent 200 hours hand sanding and painting everything including the tank and skulls, the paint is 2 pack candy dye and I put heaps
of130 thou Harlequin metal flake is everywhere except on the skulls, they took me about
most of the day to stencil and shade but I liked them and am leaving things like that.
there is a picture on the face book page of how it is with a set of xs650 Heritage wheels
on it….. but I think Im gonna take them off and put the special rims back on
cheers Phil.
In that bottom pic, looks like you already got a back fender… hee hee!!
I also see you have dual discs up front. Is that stock?
yeah Denni$ thats a great rear fender, and yeah its a 1981
Australian bike so it came with dual front discs
Cheers:Phil.
G,day Phil.. Im also in QLD, Gold Coast Im building a bratted 79 special full ground up rebuild almost got all my bits collected up to begin, just gotta get the crank built and a couple other little bits and pieces then commence the assembly.. Would be Really interested in having a chat about the bikes and QLD transport madness lol Hit me on my email addy mstreyes1 @ hotmail dot com… great work mate btw!