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FINISHED - Buell Rear End Chop
Hey guys. The girl's out of town from today until Saturday or Sunday so I got a lot of spare time to DO WORK! I'm finally going to clean the rear subframe on the Buell up. I'm still unsure as to what kind of rear sub I want to do but there are almost unlimited options. Opinions are welcomed and encouraged since I'm very unsure as what to do. Some thoughts:
- Floating style sub with a seperate round oil tank below.
- Full sub with oil tank integrated into it (much more work, but it fits with E. Buell's ideology)
- Some how fit an XB swinger on and do whatever with the seat and use the swinger as the oil tank obviously (definitely the hardest of the three because of the existing shock mount...not sure if the bike is unstable without it)
Pics -
Before:
After the cut:
Cleaned up (all pretty standard shit, but I figured I'd document it):
Hey guys. The girl's out of town from today until Saturday or Sunday so I got a lot of spare time to DO WORK! I'm finally going to clean the rear subframe on the Buell up. I'm still unsure as to what kind of rear sub I want to do but there are almost unlimited options. Opinions are welcomed and encouraged since I'm very unsure as what to do. Some thoughts:
- Floating style sub with a seperate round oil tank below.
- Full sub with oil tank integrated into it (much more work, but it fits with E. Buell's ideology)
- Some how fit an XB swinger on and do whatever with the seat and use the swinger as the oil tank obviously (definitely the hardest of the three because of the existing shock mount...not sure if the bike is unstable without it)
Pics -
Before:

After the cut:


Cleaned up (all pretty standard shit, but I figured I'd document it):
