1972 April Big Bike Motorcycle Magazine

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1972 April Big Bike Motorcycle Magazine - The Soft Tail Jr., head mechanic at B&O MC Con-sultants, jams on his twice-built Sporty.Three stainless steel pins and 97 stitch-es changed his attitude about wheeliesFEATURE BIKES22 MAIN MECHANIC’S MACHINE"After changing the bike two times, no more changes could makeme happier"28 THE FAMILY THAT CHOPS TOGETHERAll the Finertys, father and sons, are bike builders38 TRICKY PUTTER FROM PROVIDENCEUnique stuff shows up wherever you look44 HE FINALLY BUILT A CHOPPERBut not until he’d owned more than a dozen bikes49 A HONDA TRIKE—FOR $300Low on bucks, he built it for almost nothingTECHNICAL32 SAVE $100—REBUILD YOUR OWN TRANNYThe easy way to get the Harley box right53 SECRETS OF SHOOTING BLACK LACQUERHow to do a dynamite job with the color that’s always in stylePRODUCT TEST26 THE POWER CONVERTERPermanent cure for British electricsSPECIAL FEATURE42 THE SOFT TAILLooks like a rigid, rides like a swingarmDEPARTMENTS4 KICK STARTERThe performance trend . . . good and bad6 HEADWINDSHow to get busted “in the ossifer's judgment”8 READERS’ BIKESYour winter work10 READERS WRITE AND WRONGHoo-haw from the boonies14 NEW PRODUCTSLet your fingers do the shopping16 TECH TALKMotorcycle Engineering and Repair made harder Very early in the planningstages, the chop builder comesto one major decision:Should he use a rigid frame or aswingarm? If he uses a swingarm,he’ll have comfort and a rear case ofthe uglies. If he uses a rigid frame,he’ll have super-simple, clean lines—and his butt driven through his shoul-der blades.Decisions, decisions.Whichever frame the builder picks,neither one of them is the completeanswer.Some guys have tried differentthings—they’ve used the old Triumphsprung hub, which gives half an inchor so of give before the slam happens.Other guys think wistfully about theway the Vincent had its suspension—swingarm, but with the hydraulicunit at such an angle that the bikelooked like it was a rigid.But the biggest wishful thinking isdevoted to the plunger frame. A lotof manufacturers used the plungerframe on their bikes, from the mid-’30s into the 1950s. The rear topframe tube drops like a rigid frame,but between the bottom rear frameleg and the top rear frame leg is asmall hydraulically damped unit.Those plunger frames, mostnotable on BSA and Norton, gave asmall amount of rear suspension toa bike, smoothing a road’s roughedges just enough to prevent thebone-shattering crash crash crash ofa rigid.Some builders have consideredeither using the rear section of aplunger frame or the whole framefor their bikes. But since those littlebitty shocks that came inside theplunger frames are almost unobtain-able and rebuilding kits are non-existent, the idea stayed in the “neatthings to do that I’ll never do” realm.The Machine Shop, in NorthHollywood, California, has taken thatneat thing into the not only possible,but available and financially feasible.Their reasoning was that almosteveryone who decides to chop a mod-ern bike ends up junking the swing-arm and buying a hardtail section... And much more! 12475

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