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I just picked up April's issue of "The Horse" and in there was an advertisment for custom frames for Triumphs. Asylum choppers .
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oh boy... they stole my cross.
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Holly crap! Soren if you made that artwork you need to contact them immediately with a cease and desist letter. here is an example letter, change it to fit your needs. http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/INTELLECTUALPROPERTY/contract/cease.htmMaybe you are willing to sell it to them.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I wonder where they stole the flames from ... 
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I wonder where they stole the flames from ...
I was wondering that too they did a good job with all the stolen artwork, but stolen is stolen.
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Holly crap! Soren if you made that artwork you need to contact them immediately with a cease and desist letter.
here is an example letter, change it to fit your needs.
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/INTELLECTUALPROPERTY/contract/cease.htm
Maybe you are willing to sell it to them.
Yep, I am the one that created that design. Actually, it was unveiled for the the first time here on BA.com several years ago (maybe it is still in the archives somewhere).
I am not exactly sure what I am going to do about it yet. I am going to try to get in touch with them on Monday. I wont sell it to them, but maybe give them permission to use it for a fee or somthing (after all, it does look good how they are using it). I wish they had a phone mumber posted on their web site.
Soren
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And ummm...while you're at it Soren, tell 'em somethin' for me too will ya.... STOP BUTCHERING PERFECTLY GOOD HANDLING MOTORCYCLES BY DOING THAT TO THEM!!!! Thank you in advance, dude! That's right folks. I've never been that crazy about Triumph Choppers. Let 'em do this stuff to Harleys 'cuz those suckers don't handle very well to begin with, so there's no big loss there! (BTW Soren, I'm only kidding here...well, HALF WAY only kidding I guess anyway...you don't really need to tell 'em that!) 
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Only thing I see wrong with them is the front ends are too short and not springers! I have done that to quite a few myself. I never did that to any of my own bikes that there was enough left to restore but I have with several that started as parts.
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Like I said Ian, I was "half way" kidding there. If somebody has an old Meriden Twin engine layin' around, then why not attempt something like a chopper I suppose.
But almost without exception, as I think I've maybe seen one or two nice looking Triumph choppers in my life, usually the person building them makes the mistake of placing the gastank WAY too high up on the frame and making the "little" 650 engine look even smaller than it is, which also leaves WAY too much open space between the bottom the the tank and the rocker covers. I think it makes the chopper look too "spindly", for want of another word. That's why I think a V-twin's massive look makes by far the best looking choppers.
(BTW, I'm not talkin' Triumph bobbers here, as I think the proportions of those babies look "right", in my opinion anyway)
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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See I like the spindly bare bones look. The chopper I built , rode for years and love has the king sportster tank with shallow tunnel so it sits on top of the frame rail. I love that look. The same bike I have in photo post in front of the Studebaker we were talking about. I do build them all differently though , I have one with a crazy long girder on it with fat bob tanks almost touching the top of the engine, another with super short front end and deep tunnel peanut tank but frame stretched so long it's over 8' long.
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Ian, here's a pic of probably the best lookin' Triumph chopper I think I've ever seen. It was at the El Camino M/C show last October....  Whaddaya think of it? I especially like that it has a stretched girder front end and not a springer. To me that much more says "Triumph". Doug (soulsurvior) went crazy for it too, BTW.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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But almost without exception, as I think I've maybe seen one or two nice looking Triumph choppers in my life, usually the person building them makes the mistake of placing the gastank WAY too high up on the frame and making the "little" 650 engine look even smaller than it is, which also leaves WAY too much open space between the bottom the the tank and the rocker covers. I think it makes the chopper look too "spindly", for want of another word. That's why I think a V-twin's massive look makes by far the best looking choppers.
(BTW, I'm not talkin' Triumph bobbers here, as I think the proportions of those babies look "right", in my opinion anyway)
I 100% agree!
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I like that one a lot Dwight. That front end looks very much like the one I have on the bike I told you about with the fat bob tanks on it. The Girder I have though has British patent numbers on it and more of the parts are cast. Looks very much like an original but very long.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I liked it too. But I like the looks of the springer more than the girder. I've no idea which one performs better, however.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I went looking for my picture of that bike to add to this thread and whaddya know, that IS my picture... 
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Is there anyone else making rigid frames for the new twins?? I have been wanting to build a rigid bobber for a while and I think a new twin would be way cooler then the old twins.. thanks
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I like girders more than springers myself, but I think it's purely a personal preference there... If you ask biker he'll tell you girders perform better, and from the way he explained it I have no reason to disagree. I think it's because all the moving parts, aside from the springs/shocks themselves, is rotational motion, so you don't get the stiction of telescoping forks, and I think they allow more travel and better adjustment options than a springer. But I could be wrong 
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A good girder bounces less for one thing, many have a clutch type set up on the side on the lower pivot so it doesn't pogo and they don't flex because of the geometry of the girder rather than the single leg.
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Is there anyone else making rigid frames for the new twins?? I have been wanting to build a rigid bobber for a while and I think a new twin would be way cooler then the old twins.. thanks
Yes, there's another thread here, now about Acme choppers in Laconia NH. These guy's build killer frames. 
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