A little 13 hour road trip to Phoenix and back to pick up the perfect donor bike.

This asshole was tailgating me the whole way home.

Chopper transformation begins.

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The perfect powerplant, a Ducati 916 motor.

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Aluminum swing arm in our propriatary Jig

Frame design concept started

Waiting for gas tank to coordinate frame form concept

Foot Control Plates getting cut

Sides of the tank getting started

Mocking up the tank angle

Working out the frame structure

Creating room for the air intake

leaving liters of space for electronics to hide between gas tanks

The villain angle. First fitment with Scott.

The finished bike will be even more blurry as it blasts past you.

Suspension engineering next. The project takes on it's own personality

Old school form by hand and railroad track

Seat shape taking form

subframe design next

custom clutch cover design in progress by Massaro designs

Custom radiator and mounts with rubber.

Clean hard lines for fuel delivery.

Neat spaghetti

Bolt on aluminum sub frame

Spaghetti bowl

Spool bungs. Racey!

handlebar base and milled top clamp

single sided tank?

lotsa wires to sort and route

Lotsa leak free TIG welding.

button up the gas tanks

wait till you hear the tone

hand fabricated detailing makes this bike a work of art

locating the exhaust

a blank 13 massaro cover waiting for a design

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cool tools

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paint ideas?

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almost looks real

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Flat alum and paper template

exite the molecules with heat or dirty talk

influence the metal into shape

fit the pieces nicely for easy welding

if you can't weld, leave the clamps on

roll the edges

make sure you do it evenly to prevent distortion

tack weld in sequence

again in sequence to prevent distortion

closed cell foam

i cut with hack saw blade

shape with flap disc

like sculpting

like shaping a surfboard

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