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How to Build a West Coast Chopper Kit Bike (Motorbooks Workshop)

This book presents a step-by-step guide to building a West Coast Chopper's C.F.L. kit. Kit choppers are hot commodities. While few people can afford to buy a custom-built chopper from one of the high-end builders like Jesse James-bikes that often sell for $100,000 or more-many can afford to buy such bikes in kit form. Because of this, all the high-end builders sell their creations in kit form. For example, while Jesse James might build perhaps a dozen custom bikes per year, he sells hundreds of chopper kits. The same is true of any number of other builders like Matt Hotch, Cyril Huze, and Paul Yaffe. Authored by Mike Seate and featuring the photography of Joe Appel, this book is a step-by-step how-to guide for anyone building a kit chopper.

After - and only after - checking your work against some other wheels to make sure they look right, and that the front and back wheel look the same; you can start the tensioning & truing process. I do this in a totally ghetto manner that I wouldn't suggest doing unless you've done it a bunch which I assume you haven't if you're still reading this.

My first step is to tighten all the nipples down until I can only see one or two threads (this may differ due to spoke length of course). At this point the wheel should tighten up considerably and take shape. I then basically go around and tension them all by a certain number of twists, making sure to alternate sides so I don't force the wheel prematurely out of true. On this build I decided to try the aural tensioning process made famous in The Triplets of Belleville where our hero uses a tuning fork to get spoke tension correct. This is actually something you can do with a fair amount of success if you pay attention. I found a chart on the internets that basically showed you what note your chosen spoke length should give at tension. Mine happened to be A#. I then used a java based tone generator in leu of a tuning fork because - wouldn't you just know i - I don't have an A# tuning fork in my tool kit.

After tensioning them as close as I felt was important I moved on to ghetto truing technique #2 - truing wheels on a fork. I put my roomates broken aluminum pista concept on the bike stand upside down, made sure the hub was entirely flat into the dropouts, then began emulating the pins on a real truing stand with my thumb. This actually works really well if you understand what it is you're doing and have the patience. I would suggest reading up on truing techniques because it can be frustrating to learn. If you can't hang with thumb alone, a piece of tape with a small piece of cardstock or something thick can be taped to each side of the fork and moved while you spin the wheel.

After - and only after - checking your work against some other wheels to make sure they look right, and that the front and back wheel look the same; you can start the tensioning & truing process. I do this in a totally ghetto manner that I wouldn't suggest doing unless you've done it a bunch which I assume you haven't if you're still reading this. My first step is to tighten all the nipples down until I can only see one or two threads (this may differ due to spoke length of course). At this point the wheel should tighten up considerably and take shape. I then basically go around and tension them all by a certain number of twists, making sure to alternate sides so I don't force the wheel prematurely out of true. On this build I decided to try the aural tensioning process made famous in The Triplets of Belleville where our hero uses a tuning fork to get spoke tension correct. This is actually something you can do with a fair amount of success if you pay attention. I found a chart on the internets that basically showed you what note your chosen spoke length should give at tension. Mine happened to be A#. I then used a java based tone generator in leu of a tuning fork because - wouldn't you just know i - I don't have an A# tuning fork in my tool kit. After tensioning them as close as I felt was important I moved on to ghetto truing technique #2 - truing wheels on a fork. I put my roomates broken aluminum pista concept on the bike stand upside down, made sure the hub was entirely flat into the dropouts, then began emulating the pins on a real truing stand with my thumb. This actually works really well if you understand what it is you're doing and have the patience. I would suggest reading up on truing techniques because it can be frustrating to learn. If you can't hang with thumb alone, a piece of tape with a small piece of cardstock or something thick can be taped to each side of the fork and moved while you spin the wheel.

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VEHICLES
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SHELTERS
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