So are you working towards a bike for each day of the week?
Out of curiosity I looked on ebay surprised how cheap the old chopper and tomahawk are
I think Choppers have had their day in the sun now. However, fully restored or mint originals are still worth a fortune tbh. If you buy one and most of it needs replacing it becomes a money pit. It's the same as what I am doing really. Building a bike of any sort becomes a bit of a money pit, especially if you want genuine or repop parts from that specific era. I predict that this bike could end up costing £500. That's a lot of cash, but not when you consider something like this...
That is what they call a survivor. Some people go nuts for stuff like that but again I am logical. If indeed most of the parts on it are original* then most of them will be good for nothing. Example, the seat will be incredibly brittle, the tyres will be rubbish and would crumble if you tried to ride them and so on. Original parts again are uber expensive so by the time you made that thing look new you would be grands in.
Just getting those pedal cages anodized would cost you £150+
I want mine to be brand new using all new parts. I would rather they were almost like the originals but new etc. Mine will also have a new paint job, new decals, etc.. By the time you did that to that thing up there you would be looking at £3k. Which would mean you would need to have strong words with yourself.
The reason I went silver is because nobody really wanted it in silver. There will come a day where they are even harder to find than now (which would be really hard.. There are none for sale).
Any way, more parts
There are a couple of parts that are hard to get that I don't have now. The seat is going to cost me I am under no illusions about that. At least £40 or so for a repro. The pedals are hard but not impossible at under £25. Crank arms are pish they are everywhere. Not decided if I am going to get a basic set of silver wheels and leave them/candy them blue or what yet. Not too worried about that wheels are quite easy to get.
* the tyres on that are not original. They did not come with comp 3 copies they came with what I have, snake bellies and the grips are not original either they are off of a later bike.
Yellow IIRC
