I have no upper body strength, my ass and my legs are the only little bit of power on my body and I wanna ride more than I wanna wrench. I’m 5”8, 130 pounds and I’m like, so weak. In the beginning Cody really wanted me to build around a Shovelhead or a BigTwin Evo and I’ve ridden those bikes, I like them, I think they’re cool and whatever but I just love Sportsters. My first ride! We got it going at midnight on a Tuesday night. Other than that, the bike is so solid and so fast. I've had only a couple small problems it’s idling a little weird and I blew my headlight - like it totally melted and I could smell it. Right now, I have the bike at my house in Long Beach and ride it around town every day. After that, we cut down the motorcycle handlebars a few inches and did a few adjustments and it was good to go. We took the bike off the lift, fired it up and I was ripping it through downtown LA in a matter of minutes. Finishing the Sportster Chopper Build and Enjoying the First Ride so really there’s nothing left on the bike from before other than the motor and frame that hasn’t been replaced or changed drastically in some way.īefore dialing it in - This was the first time we rolled it outside into the sunlight since chopping it up. I ended up getting a new stator, stator cover, throttle, battery, entire new electrical system, etc. I have heard of people having a lot of troubles with certain things on the bike and it defiantly took us some time to tweak it right. It has been built into every style in the book. I am aware of the 3 previous owners of this bike. Two weeks later we were piecing it all together. It was only $400 (I know you’re all wondering how much that cost so I’ll just tell you). The tank was already chromed so my bill was alright and I got a homie deal.
#2001 sportster chopper license
So now the spark plug wires go through 2 holes we drilled in that and all the wiring is tucked up in there beside the oil bag.Īfter that, I was able to get that cover, the fender, the bars, the pipes, the license mount and the sissy bar chromed. The other side of the bike had a bunch of open space so Cody made a fake oil bag looking cover to put the coil and electrical behind. Eventually Cody found a Paughco oil bag that fit on one side of the down tube but still left enough space for the chain. Cody and I both didn’t want that so it took some time to figure out what we were going to do. It wasn’t straight and the only option we really had for an oil bag to fit in there was a circular or small weird one. Our biggest issue was the down tube of the frame. We had a roller and really didn’t have a ton to do to make the bike be a rideable bike. The motorcycle starting to come together. He ended up riding the bike around for a couple months then took it on DVR and broke it (typical).
At the time I didn’t know but one of our homies won it who lived in Orange County.
Cody let me ride it around one day and then the next day, it was gone - raffled off on his Instagram live. One day he got an awesome deal on a 2001 Harley-Davidson Sportster chopper that he figured he could quick fix and raffle. Cody is always hustling bikes, but usually only Shovelheads and Panheads. My boyfriend and best friend is Cody Kemmet who does Hawg Supply (you may remember him as He runs his shop out of the old “Chun” warehouse in downtown LA. How Becky Got Her Motorcycle Rebuild Project It was always a “I’ll buy this now and sell it for more later to one day get a bike I love” attitude about my bikes. I’ve never had a bike that ran great or was something I cared to put money into. Yeah, so far it seems like I’ve had an array of perfectly fine bikes but I never really had a bike that I designed myself, that fit me properly, or I really loved. I won a Sportster at a bar a couple weeks into needing a bike and then bought myself a 93’ FXRT. My Sportster chopper I had to sell back in Canada.
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