Advanced Custom Motorcycle Assembly Fabrication Manual

What started in the mid-90s when a few people decided to build (stock Softailsö from aftermarket partsúbecause they couldn't buy one at the dealerúhas evolved into a full-blown industry. Today, every small town has a Chopper or Custom bike shop and every cable TV channel has a Biker Build-Off series. No longer content to build copies of stock motorcycles, today's builder wants a motorcycle that's longer, lower, and sexier than anything approved by a factory design team. Wolfgang Publications and Tim Remus were there at the very beginning of the trend with their Ultimate V-Twin Motorcycle book. Today they're back with their new book, Advanced Custom Motorcycle Assembly & Fabrication. Part catalog, part service manual, and part inspiration, this new book offers help with planning the project, getting the right look and actually assembling that custom bike you've dreamed about for years. Three start-to-finish sequences show not just how the best bikes are bolted together, but how the unique one-off gas tanks are shaped and then covered with candy brandywine paint.

What started in the 1990s when a few people decided to build Softails from aftermarket parts - because they couldn't buy one at the dealer - has evolved into a full blown industry. Today, every small town has a custom bike shop and every motorhead wants t

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All the tricks, tips, and techniques necessary to fabricate your own custom bike, from start to finish. Paul Wideman started Bare Knuckle Choppers nearly a decade ago, driven by his passion for motorcycle fabrication and his penchant for precision. Coupling perfection with his drive for innovation, Paul has brought Bare Knuckle Choppers to the forefront of the American custom motorcycle scene, building numerous award-winning bikes and earning features in every major American motorcycle magazine. Now, it’s your turn. In How to Build Choppers, Bobbers, Café Racers, Street Trackers, and Other Custom Motorcycles, Wideman offers the first complete step-by-step fabrication manual for the hands-on DIY custom motorcycle builder. Where other books have spent too much time focused on only the bare-bones basics, or been more concerned with celebrity than actually building a bike, Wideman’s manual is the first and only fully illustrated, fully informative how-to guide all the way through: from conception and design to the fabrication of a complete motorcycle. And he doesn’t stop at just one or even a few types of machine—with a book title that’s true to its word, you’ll learn how to build traditional choppers, bobbers, café racers, street trackers, and many more, along with the finer points of materials, tools, applications, mounting systems, and other motorcycle accessories. Anyone can go buy a bike . . . it takes a real enthusiast, and a book that keeps up, to make one.

Vols. for 1970-71 includes manufacturers' catalogs.