BCF members opinions on choppers

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I'm not talking about OCC or Jesse James biker build off TV aids, I'm mainly talking about cb550 diggers, shovelhead chops, old Harleys, triumphs and BSAs. Look at Powerplant Choppers, 4Q Conditioning type of work. more traditional, sensible rakes and fork length, etc.

Can you appreciate the bringing an old bike back to life but in a more stylised manner?

I get the vibe this forum is more suited to sensible 600cc Japanese standard bike riders and adventure bike granddads, but I was thinking what are your opinions on these bikes.

or just call me a hipster and roll off on your fazer winter 'hack'
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98' RZ50, 92' H100S2, 03' VT125, 59' Jubilee 250, 05' varadero chop,

[rpsmith79]

Pfft........... Hipsters
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[Polarbear]

In the national motor museum in Beaulieu there is an Ariel square 4 chop.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0jQMlw1rhhY/V6egdLIRSRI/AAAAAAAAIlg/lP7x2_WnKccgZ_du7jcBbQiuqFP_XsxhACLcB/s1600/IMG_3742.JPG

The purists hate it.

Just thought you would like to know.
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Hipster.

[UnknownStuntm...]

Why stop at BCF members opinions? Poll people in the high street. Get an online poll of students under 25. Reach out to the gay and lesbian community for their input too.

Or.

Just ride a frikkin bike, if you like it.

[Polarbear]

[Beehive Bedlam]

Just as gay and faggy as them shirts with flames on from years ago. You will look like a fucking dunce.

[stevo as b4]

I don't think there's anything really hipster about really out there raked out choppers IMO. But they aren't and never will be good bikes for UK roads or any roads in fact. When you make such an extreme geometry bike that has next to no suspension and brakes it's 100% about a look or style and has nothing in common with a useful working motorbike.

I get people taking bits off bikes to lighten them, or re-building a crashed sports bike with Renthal bars because skint and needs to ride to work or just get back on the road.

I also get some of the original concept bobber bikes and people trying to make newer incarnations of them. If you start with a cruiser, and lose lots of excess weight, bulk and equipment, then tune the engine and improve the brakes and ground clearance by using stuff like higher pipes, no stand etc then your left with a better riding and performing bike at the expense of practically and style.

Trying to make a stripped back bike for looks or because you think it's better than the Base bike is really missing the point, and that's what all the brown ribbed leather plank seat brigade fail to see or understand. They'll continue to delude themselves and anyone that'll listen that what they are making is the epitome of style, until there's no bikes left for them to mess with.

Saving an old bike from scrap if it's going to have a useful life and be ridden is one thing, but butchering say an old XS250 frame to make something to put in a shop window that'll never run or ride right again, and can't be restored due to irreversible frame mods is just shit.

[yen_powell]

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-57ZmFh_uptk/VoE6jS73jFI/AAAAAAAAngo/WuTeXEO258M/s1600/vincentchop_Shobba_Sideburn.jpg
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[Evil Hans]

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[winz]

My cousin bought this over the summer. I give him a bit of shit about it, but I haven't seen it in the flesh yet and would quite like to have a go on it. It did however, rattle half the seat bolts off and the reg rec worked itself loose after the first ride.

https://scontent-lht6-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/4b17cdfd2965a8d3a19f8ac5e9e9796b/5C76614B/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/p640x640/40094427_1105424846299791_8578206587266407149_n.jpg
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Prettiest bike I've owned was a Suzuki Savage. In reality, feet forward doesn't bode well for commuting in the rain since your waterproofs inflate, and any bumps are transmitted straight up your spine since you can't use your legs to brace yourself at all. The speedo in the tank keeps the lines clean, but steals a lot of space that would be better spent on holding fuel, in an already small tank. Given the MPH performance, 50MPG is piss poor - my Enfield is both faster and more fuel efficient.

Would I have another? Possibly, it still made me smile when I saw it. But it's style over substance.
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[DrDonnyBrago]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[pepperami]

[doggone]

[stinkwheel]

Chops have their place. There can be form and function. I struggle to keep up with my mate on his Uncle Bunt, plunger framed Z650. This is an old picture but he's had it since 1986. The engine is well poked, the frame is stiff and the geometry has been well thought out so it handles.
https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/11050728_10206150116415902_7038023413807022179_o.jpg

Another mate made a BSA A7 chop as an homage to the early 70's. Again, cool as fuck. Unfortunately spat flames back out of the open bellmouths and burned to the ground.
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/Big_Chris_Chop.jpg
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If you're all about styling of bikes and the image you want to portray is that you aren't interested in riding bikes because you like to make the handing worse... go for it .

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