Loved the photochop idea! here's mine.

[CA180]

I was wondering what swingarm was used for the mono shock conversion? How much welding was involved?

[ron bayless]

Yea there's alot of em out there , notice the foward brake lever on bike 2. Seems he had his fins machined with a diamond pattern as well.

Of course bike 1 resembles my 78gs although mines a hellof alot quicker.
My paint shines more too.

By the way, if you weld the frame, how much stuff should you remove from the bike. The tank and carbs might be obvious but what are the chances of burning the wires from current not heat. I guess that depends on where you put the ground.

The problem you run into when making a forward brake lever is it runs under the cases not over it.You could make one like that guy did, but the problem is making the long vertical piece like he did fit over the splines of the rear brake splines thing.I cant tell how he attached it exactly,but gs suzuki splines have no pattern like any other jap bike of that era or any other for some reason.If you dont want the long piece to slip arond I suppose you could say screw the splines,make the inner diameter hole the diameter of outside the splines and use a setscrew or something.I think,since the travle of the rear brake pedal from one end to the other is probably only an inch or so a setscrew method might work.I tried unsuccessfully to do it the splined way.

[ron bayless]

We've discussed this idea before Ron. The problem i have is that the stock exhaust prevents any downward 90 degree rotation of the shift or brake lever.

Down is the way to go on these bikes to clear the housing. I'd have to redo the exhaust with a 4-1 likely for everything to line up.

Now if I can just get access to a welder.

I can even go so far as to machine a new set of trees for a wider front tire.
We've got three cnc milling centers at the shop and my employer has a two bay garage in the back complete with a lift and a tig/mig. Likely a lincoln.

Hmmm, a full blown bobber over the winter would be possible.

Really dangerous to start thinking this way.

By the way, the Bo in Bopi is an acronym for what else, Bob

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I almost agree with you.But,I have forward controls on the shifter side of my bike, and you just turn the shifter peg down 90 degrees hook up the linkage, and it works fine .I have the orignal 4 into 2 exhausts on mine.I mocked up the brake side also and had no problem clearing the exhausts.I really didnt.I couldnt make a good splined attachment for the brake side though.That side has to come way out,about 3 inches to clear the exhausts.I made one that will work out of an extra rear brake lever, just doesnt look too good.