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Ian, love the grips, they were a great choice for this bike and your quality and design is top notch! Much appreciated! I need to order more from you if you have stock...
I vote Harley for Mayor or City Council or something like that lol... Appreciate your kind words - I find most, if not all Cabers, to be first class folks!
Definitely, I do like the look of the turned up CWC chain stay no doubt, but glad it worked out this way on this one.
I’m honestly thinking they ran out of parts and used an old part as there maybe was a shortage for the war, as you had originally said.
Or they sent Snyder a fax and ordered some...
As it turns out - having the “straight” rear stays versus the “kicked up” rear stays as my other CWC’s allowed me to fit the 2.35” tires with good clearance. I tried on my other CWC bikes with the kicked up rear stays and the 2.35” tire would not fit…so I guess for this bike I’m glad it came...
@tacochris thank you very much, this bike turned out pretty nice…. It’s a mix of BLO - lightly brush on with a cheap bristle brush and wipe clean after 1 minute, wiped down with old greasy shop rags
No clear coat or semi gloss, not my jam
Thank you so much for the explanation, I hadn’t really noticed the straight chain stays before. My 39 cwc has bent stays and straight downtube like you say … very interesting and thanks for pointing that out
Many thanks. The tank is a donor patina match tank from what I believe to be Hawthorne Comet bike so that’s definitely not OG. Here’s the serial #, per the chart what I can tell is 40/41
I’m all ears and love learning from the experts!
Recently freshened up my first build. Changed some parts around, added patina matched parts, etc..
Went with black wall 2.35 tires (really fills out the fenders), motorbike stem, Torrington 30” wide long pulls (still have OG bars and stem), found rear fender reflector, dropstand and clip...
Thank you Shawn, yes I did the patchwork myself. Took me a minute to come up with the concept of how to reinforce/savestructural integrity leftbof the sheet metal. I was going for a Frankenstein stitched up approach. Those are 26 x 2.35 tires made by Electra
Appreciate it Gully, those tires are 26x2.35 and seemed to fill the fenders better. As for the light I needed something to fill the hole that matched the flow of the bike, and in the mountains the last thing I need is more batteries adding weight keeping me from peddling uphill
Thank you so much for noticing and the kind words. I love putting these old puzzles back together And making them roll again!! always makes me think of the last time that they were in operating condition and what year that might’ve been and what situation kept them from being ridden any further!
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