Monday, August 9, 2010
Brat it, Billy
I believe what you're looking for is what's commonly known as a Brat Style drop seat. You need to cut, drop, lengthen (in some cases) and re-weld the two bars comin outta your backbone lower than the shock mounts so that your seat can drop down below the top of the rear wheel. This allows the seating position to follow the lines of a hard tailed frame and keep some suspension at the same time. Check out the masters at bratstyle.com They are also comin out with a weld-in solo seat tail conversion. Check it out here. A lot of people think bratstyle is an easier way to get a cool look as compared to a full hard tail. This is not necessarily the case. To do it right, you still need to chop and burn a lot of metal. Probably also wanna rake or cut those monster forks too. Damn! What are those things, like 14" over?
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Thanks dude! Riiiight! Now I remember. I couln't quite visualise/put my finger in what those brat bastards were doing, that helps a lot. Hope to make it out to Sr. shop later on this week. Hope he's up fer some metal fab.....
ReplyDeleteThemmer actually the stock fork. They do look weird in that pic. I think maybe b/c there's no engine to put weight on them and also b/c it's hung by the bars to the roof. Accenting the weirdness. Butt fukk yeah, lower is cooler. I'm gonna try and lower it but i want the ground clearance b/c i tossed the cm400 one time by leaning too leaning to low while accelerating and fukking something caught and a simple turn became a tankslapping trip to the emergency room!
ReplyDeleteIf yer goin out to Sr.'s could I drop off the 'Lil Desert Rose' bent fork tubes to be straightened?
ReplyDeleteyupperz! I'll letcha know if and when....
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