Part 2 = Paint, wheels, tires.. Roller!

       Well the frame went off to the painter along with the tank and rear fender. Dwight from Purcell's Customs has applied the paint according to my color taste. I had chosen a burnt orange / bourbon metallic for its old school look. After the base color was chosen it was time to kick it up a notch with with some Old English style lettering on the tank.. But more of that in a bit..  First off, it's time to set that painted frame to use with a hydraulic front-end, forward controls, wire-spoked wheels and of course whitewall tires. The fender is going to take awhile to get, We choose a 8.5 Jesse James One-Ton-Ho rear fender. This fender would slow up the build just a bit. As it seems these fenders are about as rare as they get. In the near future O School Choppers will be fabricating a fender that will match the fender from Jesse James. But, I cant wait that long. So it's off to Ebay I go. That's where I found my fender and once it shipped and arrived, off to the painter it went. Ok, its almost looking like a bike..

        After that it was time to drop in the motor and 6 speed trans. A stock 80 EVO motor is the basic motor that O School Choppers puts in their signature series bikes. Although you can any motor you want. Shovelhead, Panhead or whatever, it don't matter to them. They can do it all. I'm trying to costs down so I  wanted to build a bike with all the O School Choppers standard options on board to show you don't need to spend a arm and a leg to stand out in the crowd. I also want to point out something here as well. This is a working man's bike, a blue collar ride, a very affordable bike that your average bike nut can afford.

       The next thing was to pick out the bars and risers.  I went with the 12" apes mainly because I like the looks of them.  Not too tall and very bicycle looking type bars. Now speaking of bars we need to address something, the grips..  I was really looking for something special in this area and then Adam (Master Builder at O School) suggested using baseball bat style grip tape. At first I couldn't picture it exactly how it would look but I was open to the idea. I put my trust in Adam and I was surprised how well it worked with the bike theme.  Good call Adam.

       Well the tank gets some paint and the ideas start rolling in my head about what to do with and dreaming about how it will look, I definitely want old school pin-strips and maybe something else to set it off. Something that shows my appreciation to the crew at O School for all they did for me and for putting up with my ever so changes and ideas for the bike. But that's what it all about. After all this is my vision and that's their job to build it my way. And so far its going well.

Part 3 = Finish the paint, fender, seat and transmission.