Street Chopper's 40th Anniversary Bike Build

The project bike dubbed “Ruby” will be built to commemorate the forty years of Street Chopper.

We are going to transform a basket case Harley-Davidson Shovelhead into a true “Raked and Flaked” chopper with influences taken heavily from past pages of Street Chopper. We don’t want to give away too many details, but let’s just say the bike’s name says a lot about how it will turn out.

Lending a hand in facilitating the bike build, Industry leaders and luminaries S&S, Custom Chrome, Baker Drivetrain, Flyrite Choppers, 3Guyz Customs, Hi-Bond Modified, Tech Cycle, Invader Wheels, Avon Tires, Stevenson’s Cycle, Performance Machine, Detroit Bros, Joe Hunt Magnetos,  Biltwell Inc, Chopper Dave’s Casting Company, West Eagle M/C Products, Revtech, Lowbrow Customs, Nash Motorcycle Co, Chassis Design Company, Harpoon Custom Paint, Duane Ballard Custom Leather, Hippy Killer Garage, Delisle Products, Ranger Lifts, and of course Harley-Davidson will all be in the mix supporting the build.

We want our readers to join in on the fun as well, so to keep our you up to speed, we will be showing you how the bike is coming together piece by piece with a weekly build blog and an official progress thread located HERE

Once the bike is up and running, it will be debuted in Street Chopper’s 40th anniversary issue, which hits newsstands in October of 2009.

(illustration by Dotson Design)  

Here's the Roller Parts Rundown Launching the Build:

Flyrite Choppers: Scorcher Frame
http://www.flyritechoppers.com

3GUYZ Customs: Narrow Springer Fork
www.3guyz.com

Invader Wheels: 16-inch rear & 21-inch front
http://www.invaderwheels.com/

Avon Tires: Speedmaster front & MKII rear
http://avontyresusa.com/  

This is what we are starting with. a `77 Shovelhead with a bent frame, jacked up top end and a not much else.  

Motorvatin'







This is our `77 Shovelhead motor that is going to power Ruby. The top end was fried, but hey the cases are solid and have a title and current reg. We will be building it better, stronger and faster with the help of an S&S Cycle 93" stroker kit and a Joe Hunt Magneto amongst other things...  

West Eagle Parts Are Here!



We got a lil package from the brown santa today and inside was a sweet West Eagle Triangle headlamp, a set of mufflers and one of their polished aluminum ribbed fenders.

do yourself a favor and check out the rest of their parts at www.west-eagle.com/  

New Skins From AVON arrived today!



Our pals at Avon Tyres (yes, with a "Y")sent us the tried and true combo of an MK II rear and a Speedmaster up front.


as you know there is no better tire combo for 16 & 21-inch wheels on a rigid.  

A TON of S&S parts show up!


The fine folks at S&S sent us a complete 93-inch Sidewinder Big Bore Hot Set Up Kit along with a Hydraulic Tappet Upgrade Kit with Quickie pushrods.

We will show you all the individual parts out of the box when we take the engine over to Rico Fodrey at Hi-Bond Modified and start the engine re-build.




STEVENSON'S SPLIT SHOVEL ROCKER BOXES



Steve Broyles Sr. of Stevenson's Cycle brings sent us these ultra-cool Shovelhead split rocker boxes. The kit includes new rocker boxes in raw metal with all the machined areas finished as well as copper oil lines and chrome acorn-style connectors.

For more info and to get your hands on a set of these beauties, visit: stevensonscycle.com  

How about some CUSTOM CHROME Goodies?


Our friends at Custom Chrome sent us a box of goods that anyone would love on their doorstep.

IN the box were a Motor Factory 530 Chain and Masterlink, a complete Colony Shovelhead Fastener kit, a Rearview Mirror and a killer chromed Velocity Stack.

We have a few more chingaderas coming from Custom Chrome in the coming weeks, so keep an ear to the ground and an eye on this thread.  

OH Snap!



thanks to John Edward's Olde Tyme Paint, this plate is going to jump into a time machine and come out the other end in 1968 black and gold colors  

The FLYRITE Frame is Here!



Jason, Whitneye and the gang from Flyrite Choppers were kind enough to make us up a frame when they heard about the 40th bike build. This frame is based on the Scorcher, but has a few minor changes to it. We are going to chrome the it, so Jason took extra special care when building the frame so that it will have a mirror-like shine to it once plated.




 

BILTWELL seat & chrome mount makes the scene



This is the Stand-in Biltwell Inc. seat for the real-deal one that Duane Ballard Custom Leather is tappin' and toolin' for us.

The shape and curvature of Biltwells' solo seat was hand hammered by Chris Collins and made for the bigger butts of today without being oversized. The powdercoated pan is stamped from heavy gauge high-tensile steel and the custom-molded polyurethane padding is good for all that junk in the trunk.  

Perfection from PERFORMANCE MACHINE



Performance Machine, Who have been around since the beginning of choppers, has hooked us up with a set of their Contour Foot Controls in chrome along with some other chrome-plated items to hang on our bars as well.  

TECH CYCLE Primary Chain Drive and Cyclone Clutch



From the mind of Paul Cox and the hands of Tech Cycle, the Primary Chain Drive is made with a chrome 530 chain and specially designed and machined components. The Cyclone Clutch has a massive surface area and a double-row bearing, so it will get the power from the 93-inch Shovel to the ground without fail.  

The engine is at HI-BOND MODIFIED



The Shovel and boxes of S&S and Custom Chrome goods are now under the trusted care of Father Fury AKA Rico Fodrey of HI-BOND MODIFIED. He is going to bust it down, get it off to the polisher and then build that Coney to live on.  

LOWBROW CUSTOMS Clear Plug Wires



We are going with a chrome, clear and ruby-red theme on this bike, so the moment we saw these clear spark plug wires on Lowbrow's Website we had to have `em

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