MBBO Savage B.O.B.

[Fv2]

When I was showing the owner the pictures I was showing you of the lights, asking his opinion, I didn’t realize the sissy bar was in the background. I was going to reveal that at the end as a surprise, but the cat is out of the bag.

Mark Stephens is a fabricator in the muscle bike community. I helped him in a small way with answers and suggestions on fabricating tall sissy bars, and he’s taken off with it. He makes some terrific creations and the orders have been flying in.

I had a special challenge for him. In ‘72, Ross kicked the top of their sissy bar back.
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I wanted to recreate that to make this bar special for this Barracuda. We also decided to take a crack at suspension, which removes height adjustability, so we’ll see how that works. And lastly, I needed something super special. I sent Mark this picture from the Chainguard from my King Cuda.
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And with all that, here’s what I got.

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I wanted to “jush it up” a little. So I found this orange gem.
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And added it.
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The work he did on that fish, etching in the shading, is just extraordinary. It exceeded my expectations!

That's pretty awesome.

 

[twojs.bike]

WOW!!!

 

[metalchewy]

WOW!!!

x1000.

 

[Chad T]

I’m bouncing some ideas around on what to do here, but I want to see if I hear a better one.

Don't think I'd cut that thin slotted tab. Would loose a lot of strength. One way would be to drill/tap the for for an allen bolt with a head that fits snugly into the slotted tab on the brake? Then you could just file the other end off flush.

I think those brakes are normally mounted with the lever and cable towards the bottom. You'd end up with the cable on the drive side if you did that. Reason I mention that is I've had one of these brakes lock horribly when oriented the wrong way. May have been something else wrong with it but might be worth checking that it operates smoothly in that orientation. When I had the drum brake lock on me it folded the fork and threw me over the handlebars and I was just checking it in the driveway. It worked fine when I flipped the wheel around the other way.