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Hi Warren, Yep I agree CHOPPERS RULE!!!!!. Great Website. This mail
comes all the way from South Africa. Found the link to your Website
thru www.agent006.com/MC.shtml and I've been browsing every chance I get all
day at work. I ride a chopper as well but you probably wouldn't give me any credit for it!!!!. Took me 3 years to rebuild from the ground
up. Bought it as scrap metal for One thousand four hundred SA Rand and
the first thing I did was take a hacksaw to the frame. Since then I had
the motor redone, new wheel bearings (front & back), new spokes (front
& back), new tyres, new swingarm bushes and bearings, custom seat,
custom battery box, 15cm stainless steel fork extensions (turned at home), custom rear mudguard, drag bars off the shelf, single motor car
spotlamp for the headlight, indicators off the shelf and the slash cuts
off the shelf. Tank comes from a Kawasaki. Wrenching done by my brother
and I, custom sprayjob and airbrushing done by my brother. The original
motor and frame is from a '79 Suzuki 550 - and here's my bitch!! I think Harleys rule and I personally prefer the old Pans, but here in
South Africa, the only people who ride Harleys are Yuppies!!!!!. Even second hand Harleys are priced from R60 000.00 up!!!! And that's for a
stock standard 883 Hugger. A Sporty or Wide Glide costs from R130 000.00. The BIKERS in this country all ride Jap bikes because they're
affordable. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to buy a Harley
while working for a normal wage are extemely lucky (single) and few and
far between. And this also excludes all the dudes that ride new
superbikes. Not one of them would be seen dead on a cruiser.
I say, What the Hell!!! I may be riding Japanese, but I chopped it and
I've got my knees in the breeze!!!!! I ride mine to work every day,
come rain or shine!! I respect any man for taking the torch/hack-saw to his ride to make it
HIS, no matter what he rides.
Herewith a pic of my ride.
Regards and thanx for a great site.
C Paulsen ( LT )
cpaulsen@alcatel.altech.co.za
Network Technician
Well, ya gotta give the guy
credit for gettin' a chopper no matter what. Talk about your
hand-built jobs!
-Warren |
