chopper seat

So the local clutch shop promised a lot but in the end charged like a bull & failed to deliver. Tomorrow I make my fifth trip to the workshop to get my extended cable!  I do now wish I'd had a go at making one from an amazon kit. I'd have it done sooner for a quarter of the price. 
Understandably eager to diy chop I took on the seat. After Rmoving the OEM  I cut up an old scraper normally used behind a tractor. After roughing the shape out by eye with my angle grinder, I gave it a few cracks with a sledge hammer to dial in the rear lift  ... & voila! 
My creative juices are flowing strong & I'm seeing things differently. I'm now eyeing am old saddle as a likely seat liner. Thanks to the local workshop I'm really leaning into diy. The bonus is, that if I screw up at least its my mistake & its not going to cost a bomb. 

I urge anyone with a yen to  chop to not throw cash at online catogues & bolt on mass manufactured blingy bits. Its just like shoppong for Lego® bits  in a box. Sorry folks if you do you're gonna end up with a cookie cutter chopper, just in different colour. If resale value, conformity to chopper opinion & fear of being different are controlling you, give yiurself an uppercut. Shake yourself awake to your own reality. Who it is you want to be? Be the radical you, be the fun, creative you. Look beyond the small minded critic within you, or others just within hearing distance. Screw it, its your ride, your scooter, your chop. Sure steal the inspiration from chopperdom, swallow the freedom to create but avoid swallowing the hooks. Go your own way !

Post Script: 
Leather saddle roughed out. 

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