Survivor Chop

twizzle said:
the Alpha was a real skinny thing was it not..??
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Yup, the Alpha 'silencer' was barely wider than the downpipes... I had one on my '81 Z650F2.

They were noisy as hell, but then I thought it'd be cool to take the baffle out :blast

Shortly afterwards the Noise Legislation happened as I remember :augie
 
David Nimrod said:
I remember him from his work in the early '80's...

Still at it... Some beautiful work on his website :thumb2 link...
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He is a good old school engraver and for a while it at the time it was pretty much a head to head between Mrs Shep and him for the custom market, hand engraving wise, he got some really great promo from the medias coverage of John Reeds fantastic bikes. It was eventually realised that there just wasn't the cash in the bike work for us (we already had a good busy business elswhere) so we just let it drift away, Custom Chrome contacted us to go to the states and work with them, again we had to make some big decisions but in the end we decided to stick with what we had. Never regretted it but sometimes wonder what might have been. We still do bikes but only for the few people we know from the old days, we have a really nice Scooter we did in the 80's that needs stuff adding to and also an old school harley as a tribute to the late Indian Larry.
 
Twizzle, if you are feeling suicidal there are nicer and cheaper ways of doing it than blowing a grand on one of those death traps. :)
 
Packer said:
Twizzle, if you are feeling suicidal there are nicer and cheaper ways of doing it than blowing a grand on one of those death traps. :)
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funny enough, after a week of intensive (:D) research i'd reached the same conclusion..... also Mrs Twizzle has wiped the smile from my face by booking a "family" holiday to Majorca in October.... lucky me.....

Chop project Vs Family holiday.......:augie

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Oh well.... back to trying to make my snotter of a Glide look like this,......
 

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twizzle said:
Oh well.... back to trying to make my snotter of a Glide look like this,......
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You already have a Glide? Dump the junk, sling the swing arm, fling the footboards, hang on a hardtail, weld on 6" fork extensions, rake and stretch the bars and hey presto a new survivor chop. :)

You'd still have to be suicidal though :P
 
Shep said:
He is a good old school engraver and for a while it at the time it was pretty much a head to head between Mrs Shep and him for the custom market, hand engraving wise, he got some really great promo from the medias coverage of John Reeds fantastic bikes. It was eventually realised that there just wasn't the cash in the bike work for us (we already had a good busy business elswhere) so we just let it drift away, Custom Chrome contacted us to go to the states and work with them, again we had to make some big decisions but in the end we decided to stick with what we had. Never regretted it but sometimes wonder what might have been. We still do bikes but only for the few people we know from the old days, we have a really nice Scooter we did in the 80's that needs stuff adding to and also an old school harley as a tribute to the late Indian Larry.
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cool story...brings back the memories of BSH nos 1 to 30....what a life changing time that was...

anyone remember odgie ?
http://www.odgie.com/_mgxroot/page_10784.html
 
Kaister said:
cool story...brings back the memories of BSH nos 1 to 30....what a life changing time that was...

anyone remember odgie ?
http://www.odgie.com/_mgxroot/page_10784.html
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I grew out of BSH, much as you do the bikes and that kind of scene.

I had an S8 Sunbeam chop called Sundance, it was in the mags at the time, but if I am honest, it was a pile of shit.....I didn`t build it, I just bought it, you can`t shag all the time and build bikes:D

Thankfully grown out of that and into beige slacks:D
 
Packer said:
You already have a Glide? Dump the junk, sling the swing arm, fling the footboards, hang on a hardtail, weld on 6" fork extensions, rake and stretch the bars and hey presto a new survivor chop. :)

You'd still have to be suicidal though :P
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Lowered, Polished, loved, 94,000 miles and 18 years old this year!
 

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Kaister said:
cool story...brings back the memories of BSH nos 1 to 30....what a life changing time that was...

anyone remember odgie ?
http://www.odgie.com/_mgxroot/page_10784.html
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BSH - The girl on the front cover of issue 1 painted a mural on my guzzis tank at the time. If you look on the outlaws website under the "Pre 83 Leicester bike scene" she's also on the little video at the top of the page http://www.outlawsmc-leicestershire.com/gallery.html The guy with the long hair on the blue chop is Podge who took over building chops at Euro custom in leicester when Uncle Bunts closed down. A lot of the guys in those shots are the same people in the photographs in BSH 1.

More trivia

quite a few of those guys and girls in the pictures are on my facebook page and look very different now :D

Black and white picture, one up from the bottom on the left hand side - the guy on the right - I was his apprentice. very clever bloke and was the Regional engineering manager for the Severn Trent Water until a couple of years ago. The guy on the left was an accountant the last time I saw him :eek:

Third row in, fourth picture from the bottom is little Martin. Was running a Hotel in France until last year and was under the places to stay section of this site.
 
Rob Farmer said:
... If you look on the outlaws website under the Pre 83 Leicester bike scene....
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Thanks for the link there Rob.. brings back memories. The 'Leicester Lot' used to come up to Shrewsbury quite often back in those days.
 
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