Classic chopper styling kits for Suzuki C50

Wondered if anyone saw this site from AME choppers

Boulevard chopper kits

...big looks for decent cash.

They look great, but I think I will pass on really long rakes for my bike,
considering the area where I live.

Farmboy wrote:

Wondered if anyone saw this site from AME choppers
Boulevard chopper kits
...big looks for decent cash.

Thanks for that one Farmboy, thats definately a link to keep. I would love a +9 Rake with an extra 4" of fork, and the price is definately not to be sneezed at.

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OMG Badger You live in a wonderfull place

At those prices it has been added to my wish list.

The +9 Rake with a 4" extended fork would keep the cruiser look quite nicely



Badger, you got yourself a little slice of Heaven in your backyard, lucky you.

Afraid that's not for me. I'm very happy with the way my M800 handles, and I wouldn't want to cock it up.

Prince 'O' Darkness wrote:

Afraid that's not for me. I'm very happy with the way my M800 handles, and I wouldn't want to cock it up.

Would it have a detrimental affect on handling?

I would love one, but I don't think I will be able to afford anytime soon

Actually, there's a sidebar on the left concerning rake and trail. Clears up a lot of how and why your motorcycle steers the way it does.

Thanks but as much as I look I can't see it

D'oh! Must be old age. Here's the site.




Rake & Trail explained

I thought I was losing the plot, not that I ever really had one to lose
Ahhhh So it would seem if I have read that right that by adding one of those, even the smaller rake that I was looking at, it would actually stabilise the bikes steering.

That's the way I read it as well not that there is any issues with the steering to begin with.
I do think your right tho, that theThe +9 Rake with a 4" extended fork is the one to go for. It would keep the cruiser look without going to far down the chopper end of the spectrum

I must be missing something here. I looked at all the Suzuki bikes in the Gallery and to me they look like nice bikes with a silly front wheel that doesn't seem to match the solid back end. I wonder if real choppers need to be designed and built from scratch. I think its perhaps the pushed out forks which look wrong. But that's just my opinion and probably those who do the conversion think they are the dog's whatsits. I like choppers but I think perhaps the Intruder is too chunky a bike to carry it off. I fancy slightly higher bars but probably would leave it there.

Just looked at them again and the 9 degree with the 4" tubes looks the best I agree.

Badger wrote:

They look great, but I think I will pass on really long rakes for my bike,
considering the area where I live.

I live not that far from you - where the 'eck's that?

I agree with Bluesman on this one I'm not too blown away with the look these kits give the bike, a chopper is something that is built from scratch, not a road bike trying to be made to look like a chopper, this is of cause only my opinion.

I have been looking on that site at the pictures for the C800/C50 and as you will have noticed, sadly there is no picture for the 9 degree with the 4" tubes. However when studying the two pictures that they do have I think they are both pictures of the 18 degree rake and not of the 14 & 18 degree.
I also think that the bike with the mudguard that is on the picture that supposedly is the 14 degree rake as it is over it is a bad example, as in my opinion for what its worth, the moment you add any degree of rake the mudguard should go and white walls should be added.
I think if a proper picture of a 9 degree rake was displayed it may look a lot better than those pictures might lead one to believe…… Maybe!

I personally think the front end is kicked out nicely as it is. I could consider 4" with minimal rake and a brief fender if I were going all out. One thing I did feel naive about was the rake/trail writeup for explaining that the wide(r) bars on different makes and models are more than a styling exercise. Not that I had really given it much thought, but I didn't really connect the two .

Bluesman wrote:

I live not that far from you - where the 'eck's that?

Bwlch mountain road.

Badger wrote:

Bwlch

Bloody Hell man did you not learn to spell at school
You better correct that quick or the Bluesman will be keeping you behind after lessons

captain crash wrote:

Badger wrote:

Bwlch

Bloody Hell man did you not learn to spell at school
You better correct that quick or the Bluesman will be keeping you behind after lessons

Ah the joys of Welsh - words without vowels, it's to confuse Englishmen when they visit so they might not come again! I'm English with a Welsh wife so it obviously did not deter me. When I arrived here to retire I first did some supply teaching in Swansea - making myself understood was not always easy because of the accent. Thankfully the lessons are in English - further west, all lessons are in Welsh even for English pupils and non lingo speaking teachers need not apply! Most locals don't mind too much if you speak Welsh or not as long as you support the rugby (and I don't mean Johnny Wilkinson's mob!!)

Badger wrote:

That's not Welsh, it's the name of that plant.

I think Badger speak's Klingon

'Klingon' is actually a clever mix of Welsh and Japanese. FACT.

Beam me up Scottie

Badger wrote:

'Klingon' is actually a clever mix of Welsh and Japanese. FACT.

Or possibly beam me up taffy .....