I absolutely love this bike on a couple of levels. The first is that this little xj550 is a mini replica of my xj1100 other than the shaft drive. Since he didn't extend the swingarm or go with a larger tire and neither will I, it is a non-issue.
Here is how his bike started...as a bone stock xj550
Even the frames are amazing similar. Only major frame difference between the 550 and 1100 is where the 550 double back bone bends down into "gussetts" the 1100 goes straight up to the neck. But as you will see in a little bit, utilizing the stock tank with a simple shell solves that difference as well.
He started by modifying the stock tail piece, cut down and molded to simply change the profile of the seat and creating angular shock lifts for the swingarm to raise the back end. I think a longer shock or even monoshock design will work just as well.
wanted to make it beefier:
Then, he found a donor R1 tail section that he could mold around the work he had already done:
Even with the stock tank it started to really take shape and grow some fantastic lines! But watch what happens with an empty and cut shell from a GSXR and molded to fit arouns the stock tank to maintain mounting locations and filler location
Bike turned out fantatstic after he pie cut the rear frame and fabbed a sub-frame and low perimeter rail to mount everything. Note, as well, the very nice stunt cage he fabbed, too!
Not a chopper, but a fantastic example of a chopped bike from start to finish and superb example of a thoughtout idea executed in a fine fashion! this will be the template for what I want for the xj1100!
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