It all started when I bought the bike bone stock for $1200 back in 2017. I was 17 years old at the time and had no idea how to ride a manual bike (All I knew was how to ride mopeds and scooter bikes).
This is how the bike looked when I got it:
I learned to ride on this bike, learned to wrench on it a lil bit too.
Then in 2019, after seeing and looking into a lot of bobber/chopper builds, I started getting the idea of building my own since I’ve seen alot of Hondas being ‘bobbed’.
Here’s pictures from the night I chopped the bike:
I’ll be honest I had no idea what I was doing, I saw a couple clips on where to cut, but that’s about it. I had no money, no plans and no materials to complete the build. The bike sat cut up in our garage with plans on hopefully completing it.
In 2020, I cut up the original seat and the original fender to make a sorry attempt at a bobbed bike. At this point I had the gas tank properly painted, and got a straight pipe exhaust from a junk yard.
As you can see from the picture it didn’t look so great:
Beginning 2021, I had a seat made at my local blacksmith out of thick sheet metal (I don’t remember how thick). I installed that seat as is on the bike.
I rode the bike for a little while before storing it for around 1 year because of a fueling issue.
The bike looked like this for that period:
After I got the bike finally running near the end of 2021, I got the metal seat upholstered with a diamond cut pattern. I eventually Installed the seat with no springs (essentially hard mounted, but the bike was soft tail so it wasn’t that big of an issue)
The bike looked pretty nice at this point but it needed a little love:
Summer 2023 is when I wanted to complete the bike properly. I took the bike to get the frame painted, I decided on matte black which wasn’t a great idea to be honest, and got springs for the seat as well as a hinge so the seat can flip up so I can access the fuel pump and wiring in case it needs servicing.
The bike currently looks like this as of November 25th 2023:
The bike, as is any project bike, needs a lot of love and a lot of constant work. There’s always something to fix, always something to improve.
This bike taught me patience, gave me joy, pain, suffering and fun. My journey with it has been lengthy but there’s still plenty more to do.
I am 23 years old now. I love this bike and I’d like to think that I’ll never let it go.