SINBAD

BOULDER CHOPPERS’ PART HARLEY, PART SUZUKI CUSTOM FXR

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Hot Bike: This bike doesn’t look like any we have seen. Where did the frame come from?

Boulder Choppers: It started out that I wanted to build my own FXR frame. After reverse engineering a stock frame and figuring it out, I was able to build it.

HB: What about the rest of the drivetrain?

BC: I decided to see what else I had in the shop to build off the new frame with. Luckily, sitting in the shop was a 2000 FLH that was having EFI problems. I said to myself, “Self! Take that piece apart and use that on the FXR then part out the rest to fund it!”

HB: Those forks and wheels don’t look H-D. Where did they come from?

BC: I’ve always been a fan of performance Japanese bikes, so I decided to incorporate some of that into the bike. I got my hands on a stock Suzuki Hayabusa. From that bike I used the front end, wheels, and calipers. I fabricated 1-1/2-inch trees to fit the Hayabusa front end to the FXR frame.

HB: How did you get the rear to work?

BC: I took the stock Hayabusa axle and cut it to 10-3/4 inches to fit inside the swingarm. Then I honed it out to 3/4-inch to fit a stock Harley axle.

HB: What about the bodywork?

BC: I searched around the shop to see what old stock tins I had lying around. I started modding them to fit the FXR frame. When it came to the paint, I went with Orange (Genesis 9:13). That’s one color of that I don’t have a bike with yet.

HB: Great-looking bike. Anything else?

BC: Now that it’s all finished, we name every bike we build. This one is named “Sinbad” after my sister-in-law who passed away from cancer. Her real name was Cynthia Cummings. HB