So seeing Rat Rods Jawa got me impatient in posting up my Jawa build.
She's almost done. I'm the worst at documenting builds, but here are a few pics before, during and after....
1988 Jawa, $250 bucks. Pretty haggard looking, but runs!
The first thing to do was ditch the bars and add a top tube to get the tank horizontal.
Needed a rear cowl type tail peice, this was an old aluminum floor lamp I found in a trashpile and used it for a headlight on another bike
cut in half and I got a tailsection
Mock up cardboard seatpan to see how it will look.
Aluminum seatpan and tail together.
Now that the tank would be level, the hole had to be filled in and a new one put on top.
Now the bad documentation part, here it is done. Around $350 bucks into it, new tires and tubes and a little British Racing Green paint job and some checkers ans she's ready to tear up the neighborhood.
She's almost done. I'm the worst at documenting builds, but here are a few pics before, during and after....
1988 Jawa, $250 bucks. Pretty haggard looking, but runs!
The first thing to do was ditch the bars and add a top tube to get the tank horizontal.
Needed a rear cowl type tail peice, this was an old aluminum floor lamp I found in a trashpile and used it for a headlight on another bike
cut in half and I got a tailsection
Mock up cardboard seatpan to see how it will look.
Aluminum seatpan and tail together.
Now that the tank would be level, the hole had to be filled in and a new one put on top.
Now the bad documentation part, here it is done. Around $350 bucks into it, new tires and tubes and a little British Racing Green paint job and some checkers ans she's ready to tear up the neighborhood.