Hey! Soo I'm building my First Harley Shovelhead chop. IT's my First Harley ever and im pretty stocked to finally be at this stage finally. As it has been a long time coming. Anyhow I find a decent deal as a Friend told me and i should grab it. I got a 80 Shovelhead with a brand new Kraftech frame. With boxes of parts like gaskets sporckets and what not. BAsically it is everythign minus a front end.
MY Dilemma is i didnt ask enough questions. Which i thought i asked tons. I get to meet the guy 4 Hours away from home. I look at the frame and say its pretty wide in teh rear huh. The guys tells me its for a 180 rear tire. Seems very wide to me. My question is should i be selling the frame off. As i think i need a 130 or 150 rear tire. Not familiar enough yet if 180 is a laughable rear width. Opinions graciously accepted. If i should sell the frame and start with somethign else then ill suck it up and do that.
Wow alot if feedback. I'm sorry if I wondered this wrong. I wasn't wanting to buy a frame with a wide rear I assumed it wasn't until I got to the bike. Basically I want to build a bike with a standard width tire. But I ended up with this.
If I remember right a 180 is the widest you can go on an twincam without doing much, but I dont think a 180 will fit a shovel without all or some of the off set grief that comes with them there wide tyred things!......
If I remember right a 180 is the widest you can go on an twincam without doing much, but I dont think a 180 will fit a shovel without all or some of the off set grief that comes with them there wide tyred things!......
Doc at least you can blame the "crazy eight" on the wife!! Seriously eight cats? That's approaching "crazy cat lady"numbers.( unless you have a REALLY bad rodent problem, then it's justified)
Id be reaching out to the frame manufacturer and checking if there is any inbuilt offset in the frame. If not you'd be OK but I'd run a 150 rear in it to help fill the gap as widened frames with skinny rears can look a bit "off", in fact its my fav width tyre in many ways.
If it has built in offset sell it and buy the frame you want.
I see you are in Canada. Are you 100% certain of the process you need to go thru to register a bike built from the frame up? By that I mean have you talked with DMV in person yourself, not the "expert" at the bar that "used" to build choppers back in the day and now drives a neon.
I will post pics tomorrow. But I'm thinking I'm gonna sell te frame as thatis the base to work with and I'm thinkin I'm not so happy with it. I would be happier with a frame that is a lil more traditional and be proper sizing and width for a narrower rear wheel
ben, you are clearly crazy, as your name implies. you obviously live alone (no furniture, bike in the house) AND you have a CAT? grown men with cats are suspect.
I have a cat too his name is Badassbrutus he is like a pitbull of cats bites ya all the time and dont fakin touch him.Hates other cats..lol......I Suspect he is out to kill me.
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