Motnz's Rebel

Hello!

I brought a Honda Rebel through red barron in Auckland for a very reasonable price about 2 weeks ago now. It's my first road bike and ive fallen inlove with the bike and riding. I love the oldschool bobber looking bikes and ive seen alot of cool rebels (mostly in the US) and after many hours on forums and the like, I decided on the theme. I want to build up the bike (slowly but surely) into a bobber but with a modern touch.

Pics have been taken on a phone so sorry about the quality.

Bike when i first brought it.


New bars and risers.


Sidemounted plate and stop light.




Thanks to Brett (Bret777) and Ben (westendrotangs) for all the help so far!


Tom

keep up the good work Tom.
always a fan of sidemounts that little taillight looks great
keep us posted when u get to your next mods - what else are you planning?

cheers brett! Ill be getting some of the mini indicators off you soon. Just need to work out how to mount the front ones. Chopping up the seat tomo with ben and then the rear fender.
Prob paint it all too, thinking either black or red.


I wanna work something out with the speedo mount too so its like this:

cool, chop away dudes!
if you're goin in the direction of your profile pic then that looks pretty good, hadn't seen that one before

Thanks mate, yeah i love this one eh. Here's some more pics of it:

yeah they did a nice job there
that pic shows how well they change into bobbers aye
i see that person went with struts instead of shox
i like the white against the black

the good thing about people converting these into bobbers is that it gives people who are just startin out on bikes something cool to ride, better than the usual stock stuff, i wish someone had come up with this stuff when I was on my learner's!

here's some other rebel bobbers to help give some ideas

Chopped up the stock seat today. I need to figure out how to mount the stock seat pan straight to the frame to get it as low as poss. Bit of a mish. Will post up pics when its done!


Tom

cool, lookin forward to seein the result. what about the fender?

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this one looks cool i reckon

mike wrote:

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this one looks cool i reckon

Yep - I agree.

Bit of an update, we cut up the seat and recoverd it with an inch of foam then bolted it to the frame. Only got a t-shirt wrapped around it atm untill i can be assed to cover it in the black vynl. Its pretty low and sleek down to the frame which is what i was wanting. Love the look. Ive brought some small indicators off Brett (cheers!) which are wired up and going to sit on each side of the fender just behind the seat (not in pic). Ill hopefully buy some for the front too once ive found out how to mount them. Bring on summer!

sweet man, yeah that seat is a nice low profile. I hope you're not using a good metallica or acdc t shirt on it ? !
Are u gonna try and get the guard nice n low looking?
And yeah, will be good to change those 'giant orange suns' at the front. Could need some thought, as at the moment they're wired to be on with the headlight aren't they? & then flash as well. I'm thinkin that means they may have dual filament bulbs instead of single filament. If they have 2 power wires to them, maybe you can leave off the wire that keeps them on with the headlight, if you go with single filament indicators. Im just thinkin out loud, no expert on it.
Forum member Scotty is a sparky, he might be able to give you some advice about how to go about it.

Had a mean day on Saturday, wired up the new indicators and headed out for a cruise one deep. Was a minta of a day!


Here's a pic

fucking dope tom!

bring it round this weekend for soem fucking chopping.

na fuck it lets ride!

just saw this pic now, looks excellent, i really like that little taillight side mounted like that, & indicator looks good
fender chop / change?

im thinkin of doin another one of these myself, either a 250 or a 450. i wouldn't mind doin a 450 with low struts on it instead of shocks.
i got inspired when i saw this one with the bullet light side mount; hey check out the sound with the pipes chopped at around where the footpegs are - it sounz pretty good. i think that means you could just chop the pipes & put some very basic mufflers on & it wont sound crappy or obnoxious...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQosdCEKfw8&feature=related

Yeah mate do a 450! My bikes at ben's for a bit so we can work on it. New exhausts and fender should be done in the week. Prob even shocks too

Motnz wrote:

Yeah mate do a 450! My bikes at ben's for a bit so we can work on it. New exhausts and fender should be done in the week. Prob even shocks too

happy to hear that, lookin forward to seein the bike when done
yeah this is a 450 that i quite like, I reckon a setup like this with a short fender, lowered with struts, sprung seat, side mount bullet lite & plate bracket will look great on a 450
I gotta find a 450 now. none on Trademe...yet...

Looks cool mate, keep me updated!

thats a sick rebel

bretty long time mate we should ride soon

west end rotangs wrote:

thats a sick rebel

bretty long time mate we should ride soon

yeah im up for that

hey Tom have u seen this one? he used a plastic mx fender for the rear

Na haven't seen that one eh. Pretty cool tho! My bikes at jodys ATM getting struts, exhaust and fender done.

Motnz wrote:

Na haven't seen that one eh. Pretty cool tho! My bikes at jodys ATM getting struts, exhaust and fender done.

cool ! lookin 4ward to seein what it looks like, struts aye...are u gonna put a sprung seat or go hardass like Ben? hey im tryin to find out how long rebel 250 stock shocks are from centre of top eye to centre of bottom eye...can u check if u get a chance? what u doin with your old shocks? (apparently they lower the 450's...)