hello everyone one on the building side. i have thought about this for along time and i need some help. i have been fighting with either a wide tire kit or just a different frame. i don't like the idea of a kit thats $3200 and most 250 softail frames are half the price. i would like a chopper but don't have $30,000 just in my back pocket. i'm looking for a 250 softail frame that will allow me to transfer everything from my harley. my bike is also fuel injected, i was at a few shops and they say thats not a problem. theres the santee frame that i see custom chrome use for kits. i've seen the rolling thunder frames. but witch one is the best for transfering everything over. any help or tips would be great. thanks.
No clear winner here
When you use custom frames you only get bare minimum mounts, covers etc. Plan on welding & fabricating lots of little do dads to suite your needs.
There are just way too many variables for everything to fit. Kind of why HD has so many part numbers. There's no magic combo.
A friend of mine is the guy that makes the CC bike kits and they pretty much build a bike from their inventory of "common fit" so everything fits damn close. Again no magic here
Hope this helps
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"parts left out cost nothing and create no service problems" Boss Kettering
but it can be done? you can change just the frame? if it were you wide what frame would you pick that would be a good chopper frame?
Your going to have to do some work to get things aligned up, trans offset for the bigger tire etc. As long as you have all the parts from a running bike, Yes you can build another. The question is what additional parts would be required because you are changing the configuration.
Far as frames go I build all my own. Redneck eng makes some really good frames. I have started with one of them, chopped the hec out of it and came up with this one with Alan Lee
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thats a kick ass bike. i've also seen the redneck frames aswell. my bike for sure is running. i just got to go from a 200 to a 250 tire. so thats wheel and off set like you said. today i was looking threw my catalogs just for price ideas. when i looked in my fog hollow book. they had a kit called the ez choppa. could it be possible just to stretch the frame and use that as a blue print. i have a 7 degree triple tree on it now and thought about going over with the tubes. but as i talked with the guys at surdyke they said it might mess with the trail. that i understand but i already broke the rules by many because i put a 7 degree triple tree on a stock frame. i have researched this for awhile but i want to handle just as good as it looks. when i got my luggage rack i even was like i want one that looks good besides what fits. its got to look good going down the highway. i do thank you for the help. i hate to be a pest. its just in my head i know what i want this bike to look like. its just how can i do it without messing up the ride and without breaking my pocket book to bad.thanks again
i see your in venice beach, jesse james is in long beach, ever run into him at all?
It's a very small community here in SoCal. Most know quite well of each other. I do more of the extreme stuff when it comes along. Just no challenge in the everyday operations for me
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wide, how do you rank the bikers choice kits. i'm not looking to buy one but was looking at the ez choppa as a blue print for mind. to just stretch the the frame.
I really dont look much at any bikes, strange as that sounds. I just make things they way I think they should. Mostly make all my own stuff.
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to bad we all can't do that. i would if i could. just no tools or room for that.
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