All Blinged up and ready for Billing! Took it on a Test run to my mates house today. Nearly everybody looked and smiled or laughed! I hope thats a good thing!!!!



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It looks nice

Project 'proper' Mk3 Continues!

I thought i'd have a go at adding a 'proper' Chain Guard so thanks to Ginger, i managed to get hold of a Mk2 replica one. After shortening and re shaping the end it lined up rather well. I used some thin steel to mock up a bracket and trial fitted it.


After i was happy that it looked ok and didn't catch anything, i removed it and cleaned up all the welds and edges. I then cut the handle from a spanner designed to remove the discs from angle grinders, and shaped it to make a nice and strong bracket. I riveted it on, used a little filler here and there then gave it a lick of paint.


I left it to dry overnight, then applied plenty of laquer. I fitted it to the bike tonight and it looks much better than the original one.


I quite fancy fitting the Mk1 decal to it now. I did have a few of them but i cut them up to fit either side of the Chopper decal on the down tube!

My next addition may be an alloy spoke protector and a decal for the shifter. This will need to be cut to fit though as i had to re-work the shifter surround quite a lot to get it to fit!

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Its been a while since i updated this thread so i thought i better had. I know that there has been a lot of ill feelings towards Choppers lately but i do hope that we have all grown up now and put our toys back in the pram!
To those who are familiar with this project you know why i customised this Mk3 anyway. To those who don't, people who love Choppers generaly hate the Mk3. I messed with this one to show how Raleigh should have done it in the first place and to prove that the Mk3 can be made into a good bike with a little Love!
I brought the Bike out and gave it a clean as i have started a new joband decided that our window display needed brightening up a litte. I felt that this would do the job! The bike is now on display at Middlesbrough Cycle Centre located in the Bus Staion. If anyone is passing please come have a look and pop in to say hi!


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Could you pm me pls, interested in details on some of the "Mods". Looking to do similar work on my MK3.

a very nice conversion, a lot of thought has gone into it (and i bet, a lot of hard work) but its payed off with this project  

Thanks Guys, I'll keep you updated with any other change i make but i recon its about there now.

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