Anyone ever build a girder or springer fork?

[james]

Just wondering if anyone here has built a girder or springer fork. Mostly looking for info on bushings for pivot points. Or, even close pics of these types of forks.

[rev616]

you could build one and buy harley bushing to use..there is an article in the newest street chopper that tells you how to build a custom springer front end.you might want to pick it up.i havent gotten it yet,but i will..looks like good reading.

[james]

Thanks, I'll have to check it out. I'm diggin the girder on the bike on page 57 of the april 2004 Horse....

[jstorm]

check with evilfordcoupe. I think he built one for his 1/4 scotcher

[disastron13]

Oh man I hope this doesn't lead to a SQUARE TWISTED EIGHTEEN OVER front end that weighs 90 pounds, wrecks the steering, looks like a fuckin garden trellis from Outer Bratislava, don't forget 1 inch bar stock is like totally bitchen when it's KROMED man
Dang but I am glad that model A highboys don't get some chromed mess that wrecks the steering...very often.
Well you know girders were done right...in the thirties, by Webb, and Druid, and Castle (the HD rip off)
so I guess it's possible
To each his own I guess

[jstorm]

Evilford coupes is nice and simple, looks like a normal springer

[old beet]

K-MEMBER built this bike from drawings, some years ago. Ya, its fake, was for an art project.........OLDBEET

[choprods]

Damn 'Beet/thats a cool sonofabeetch!....A girder would be a fairly easy one to build -here is a pic of a calif built chrome one- it could be made fairly easy and painted or powder coated....

[purple]

<font color="purple"> Here is a close up of my bike. </font>

[purple]

<font color="purple"> And a top view. </font>

[fatluckys]

Here's a pic of Evilfordcoupe's springer- stolen from the Flyrite site- http://www.flyritechoppers.com/whitneye/Flyritechopperscom.nsf/QtrSchorcher1.jpg

[purple]

<font color="purple"> I also own an unfinished one an oldtimer I know had. He made them in the 70s. He moved to Oregon and I lost contact with him. </font>

[gege]

i have rebuilt a few, i made contact [yellow pages] with a "bearing chain and seal wharehouse". i went there looking for replacements for bushings and shoulder bolts,i never new there were so many kinds and sizes, they measured, went back and had the perfect fit, they brought out bronze bushings-nylon bushings-steel bushings-needle bearing bushings.yes little needle bearing bushings that were real cool. they had all that in every thousanth dimension. reason im being so infoed is you could design around a type of bushing bolt setup to your hearts desire.

[Evilfordcoupe™]

This months issue of Street Chopper has an article on building springers....

-Jason