check out these savages, it's in japanese but the mods look very nice
http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~savage10/usedbike/newpage1.htm
you can use babelfish to translate
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Savage_Rob wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:


Yep, Savage Rob,
that's what I ride, more like the black one at the bottom of the page, buckhorns, no sissy bar, under-the-fender tail light, windscreen, no bags (yet to come)...  

The 400 cc, Savage was only marketed in the Japanese market, but we could import used bikes until the late 1990s, so people used to fill a container with used bikes from Japan and sell them here for about 1/3 of a new ride  

Pictures are coming, I still have a few shots to take to finish the film  

RW

Cool.  This is a bobbed stock fender....and the springer seat is kinda interesting....

That's looking really nice.

Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:


nope, was gonna be my first word also.
so did ya get the seat?

i really like the way that guy did his. it's very close to mine, but i must say better.


i like the way he attched spring mounting bracket to shock mount.  my springs attach  higher up on a bracket attached to the upper fender mount holes.  
the more i look the more i like that bracket. i'll have to figgure on out.  

In followup on the seat....

I have to fabricate 3 brackets....an elevated  pivoting one for the front of the seat and 2 offset lowering ones for the rear springs.  The springs are good and stout, but way too high, as I think you found with yours.  So I need to offset them outboard of the frame with brackets.  The seat pan also has the springs mounted further back than in the 400 above.  They are right over the fender mounting bolts...Ugh.

On a good note, I like the rubberized undercoat that I just sprayed on the bottom of the fender.  Should be dry now, and the sun is trying to come out.  Now for the paint  

WD wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:


If you find some good quality shocks, I think that you can also get them in black too....no painting.