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Precious Metal Customs
"24k" Jewelry You Ride
By Ernie Lopez
No. No is a word that you just don't
want tohear when you are planning out a chopper.Russ Austin has always
had custom bikes,but when he came up with the idea for this one, the
first thing he heard was "no".
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He went to
a number of frame builders and every one said the same things, like:"No,
it can't be done," "No, it won't handle well," or, "No,
that geometry is unsafe." Russ knew then that if this bike was going
to happen, he and his Precious Metal Customs shop were going to have to blueprint
it themselves and find someone to bend the tubing.
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The first thing he needed to do
was get his crazy frame from blueprint to rolling chassis. He called
the guys at Gambler and told them his ideas, and they said they'd do
it. When the tubing cooled off, he had a frame with 8 extra inches
in the downtube, 5 extra inches of backbone stretch and a rake of 45
degrees. Russ even dropped the seat rail 6 inches, giving it a height
of just 17 inches......[more]
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