Hard Tail: A Chopper Profile
No chopper owner wants to be seen on a ride that looks like any other. Fortunately, by combining catalog items with some creative imagination, almost any bike can end up being utterly unique, like the Hard Tail Chopper.
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Based on a frame from Accessories Unlimited, Hard Tail was fitted with 10-inch-over Mean Street inverted forks set at a 47-degree rake. Eighty spoke wheels dress each end, both carrying a disc brake; in back, the disc is part of the left-side drive sprocket, which allows the right side of the wheel to run "open." Driving that sprocket is a 6-speed transmission, itself driven by a 113-cubic-inch S&S engine with an exhaust system from Jesse James' West Coast Choppers.
Cobalt Blue paint covers the frame and all sheetmetal, the latter also sporting Candy Green flames. It's an unusual color combination to be sure, but that's the kind of "creative imagination" that makes this bike like no other.
Go to the next page for more photos and details of this imaginative chopper, Hard Tail.
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- Year: 2004
- Class: Radical
- Owner: Tom Warner
- Builder: Ideal Ride/Tom Warner
- Model: Hard Tail
- Frame: Accessories Unlimited, 6 up, 6 out
- Forks: Mean Street, inverted, 10 inches over
- Rake: 47 degrees
- Rear susp.: Hardtail
- Front wheel: Spoke, 21-inch
- Front brake: Performance Machine, disc
- Rear wheel: Spoke, 18-inch
- Rear tire: 250 mm
- Rear brake: Exile, disc/sprocket
- Engine: 113-cubic-inch S&S
- Exhaust: Jesse James
- Trans.: Accessories Unlimited, 6-speed
- Paint by: Paint Spot
Hard Tail Chopper Pictures
Hard Tail is an ideal custom chopper with inner workings as intricate as its paint job. Below are more pictures and details of this creative chopper.
Hard Tail's Cobalt Blue background
The envious tank and custom handlebars of the Hard Tail Chopper.
Hard Tail's creatively decorated rear fender.
For more information on custom choppers and motorcycles, see:- Chopper Profiles
- How Choppers Work
- How Motorcycles Work
- Classic Motorcycle Profiles