1998 Honda VT 1100 C3 Aero Bobber walk around, start up, flyby and build pics
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2014
- First customization from stock to "Yellow Taxi 44" in 1998/1999 (see slideshow after video)
Current customization:
Paint: my design, painted by Tiago @ T-agodesigns.com (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland)
Tank: one-off
Solo seat support plate: one off (water jet)
Gas cap: Crime Scene Choppers
Brass petcock, plumbing and fuel sight lines: lowbrowcustoms.com
Rear fender & struts + drag bar: bluecollarbobbers.com
Right fender strut bracket: modified random IKEA piece from the bottom of some drawer
Suspension: Progressive Suspension (lowered front and rear)
Risers: Aeromach adjustable dog bones (shaved and milled)
Seat: La Rosa
Exhaust: Hard Krome (bobbed and wrapped)
Left side tag bracket: one off (interchangeable plates with fabbed quick release system)
Air cleaner cover support: recycled air horn bracket & hockey puck
Ignition: Dynatek 2000 DK7-1
Yellow headlight bulb: 1964 Peugeot
Leather tool bag: jepsonleathergoods.com
Grips: can't remember
Forward controls: can't remember
Levers and switches: stock
Pretty much all chrome: removed or brushed
Front/rear LED running/turn signal/stop lights, air cleaner cover (non functional), relays, resistors, solo seat springs (brass powder coated), K&N air filter and other miscellaneous crap: Ebay - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Nice build. That gas gauge is killer, true old school.
Thanks and cheers!!
Pretty darn sweet.
Nice work.
Love your machine! Saw it ages ago on Pinterest and now found this video.
I just got myself a '97 VT 1100 C and the way you've handled the tail is inspiring. Gotta rebuild mine, as stock just ain't what that ride could be really, so I'll be checking your pics for some good ol reference here.
Oh, bout that seat? Good on long distances as well?
The original seat is super comfortable, but will never look good on a naked bobber type of a bike, so I'll be rebuilding that part eventually as well.
Cheers!
Seat/w springs is super comfortable, especially with the Progressive Suspension set as hard as it will go
Nice ride, the cruiser routine usually leaves me flat but yours has some real originality rather than some extra chrome doodads.
Sounds excellent, too.
Very nice, stay upright mate.
Glenn Thanks man, I'm allergic to catalogues... 😉👊
Like your fuel gauge.
I might also customise a vt1100 c3 aero into a bobber. Where did you buy the rear fender und the Seat? Is everything MFK tauglich in switzerland? I am also Swiss. Thanks for your help!
this is gorgeous. how'd you take the rear shock casings off? Trying to figure out how to strip them off for the exposed look.
thanks!
Thanks. I didn't take the rear shock casings off, I swapped the stock shocks for shorter shocks by Progressive Suspension, lowering the rear and making the ride firmer. www.progressivesuspension.com/product/1408/412-series-shocksIf you have an aero with an original rear fender and you go with shorter shocks like I did you're gonna need to relocate your rear brake caliper to the under side of the disc... otherwise you'll ram it into the lip of your fender first big bump.Cheers!
Looks great!!!! I had that same seat on my 96' 1100 ACE bobber build. Her name is "Regret"". You can see her on my channel.
looks amazing! may i ask what tank that is?
It's a one-off
@@heinznfries4432
well shit. my spirit needs a tank! but boy are they hard to come by. and if you do find one. its worth more than the bike it worth or it needs some serious dent removal
Where do you bougth the gas tank bro
hi, im looking a 87 1100 just wandering about high way speeds and how she handles in general? i have a 600 vlx and love it but never rode a 1100 before
+george lucas weiss Smooth and stable at highway speeds... effortless cruising at 130/140 kms, no worries
This is f*cking Siiiiick!! Where's the seat from?
It's mentioned in the description
I ended up picking up a '95 1100 ACE. It needs some work done before it'll run right. It has that spitting and popping going on, along with a big loss of power. Any idea what that might be off hand?
RideThroughLife Could be a carb problem. Mine was doing that last year.... I got rid of the spitting and popping by rejetting, the power loss was from one of the rubber carb boot membranes. Mine wasn't seated properly and it stayed sucked down in the closed position, the bike was utterly running on one cylinder. Check the membranes to make sure there are no holes or small tears and replace if necessary. I'm assuming the Ace also has 2 carbs but it may not be the case.... does sound like a carb problem all the same.
***** Thanks. That gives me some direction. It feels like it's just running on one cylinder some of the time. I'll check the diaphragms and clean the carbs out. I think the bike sat for a while before I had it.
RideThroughLife Mine sat for a while too before I had that problem... coincidence??
Good luck!
So how did you mount the rear fender? Is it to the swing arm. Can it hold a passenger?
Yup, swing arm mount, as is it won't hold the weight of a passenger... was never meant to though 😉
thnx just curious as how to do mine.
This is the first video of of maybe a100 , ive watched where the vt1100 sounded so good , no matter what pipe it had on it .Is there some reason why the older 1990 s model would sound different than the 2000 models ? Your bike looks and sounds fantastic . The pump in my fish tank sounds better than my factory piped 2000 vt1100 .
+Cheef Cherokee Thanks Cheef!
I know they switched from a single pin engin to a double pin engin around 2001 on the 1100 Aeros... not sure if that would make a difference or not though. A lot of guys run them withought baffles (I used to) and that's where that crappy hollow metallic"blub-blub" sound comes from (not to mention performance loss).
The single pin Aeros ('98-'00) had (and have) a great stock exhaust sound. The shift to double pin (thanks in part to the Harley litigation) in '01 screwed that all up. They sound like sewing machines, comparatively. I sourced a '98.
fucking sick mate. love that build.
how much gal or litre does that tank have?
Around 8L give or take
Bonjour,
Je possède une C3 de 98'. L'échappement est le même que pour une C2?
Je ne trouve pas d'échappement pour remplacer celui d'origine.
Un coup de main?
Merci
Non c'est pas pareil... Et j'ai vendu la moto avec son échappent d'origine. La meilleure chose à faire c'est d'acheter un d'occasion sur eBay aux states, même si c'est un peu abimé... Si c'est que pour passer une expertise c'est pas grave. Bonne chasse !
Como hisistes para convertir el tanque así ? How did you do to convert the tank that way?
Luillo luillo it's a hand made tank
ok but it's not the original tank remodeled it's truly complete from scratch
Luillo luillo exactly 👍
friend I'm breaking my head thinking how you modified the factory tank I want to do the same with a slingshot saber that hurts that the full process does not come out of the tank
The tank you see is a one-off fabrication, not a modified stock tank... pics are in the slide show at the end of the video
@@heinznfries4432 hoo ok cool
How did you get the tank to fit?
3 bolts, 3 nuts welded into the frame. The tank is a hand made one-off.... has to be to make it fit
Hello i really like ure Bike.
I have some questions about ure build, exactly with the STVA in suisse.
If u like to i would be happy for some help. I speak german and a bit French
Hi thanks! Yeah I'll help if I can, send your questions to me at heinznfries44@hotmail.com and I'll answer as best I can.
I speak English and French
and also how did you get those spoked rims on the bike? i got a 93 vt 1100 and wanna build a bobber soon but im having some troubles finding spoked rims for my bike
Thanks man! The spoke rims are stock on the 1998 - 2002 1100 Aeros, as for tank volume, it only holds about 8L, due to the backbone of the bike actually being the air tunnel from the filter to the motor. The giant size of the tank tunnel to make it fit ate away gas volume. Thought about a Frisco style tank which would have fixed the volume problem but the lines of the bike were all off and it looked like ass. I can get around 120kms to the tank but I usually pull into a gas station as soon as I pass 100kms... and I've got that reserve bottle on the frame just in case!
Cheers!!
***** I saw this bike on tumblr, and I was wondering what the bottle was for. Very amazing bike. Do you know off hand if the Aero has a different fork rake than the other models? It looks like it might, but looks can be deceiving.
ridethroughlife It wasn't tumblr, it was just a random search that lead me to your BikerMetric write-up. Sweet bike. I have a plan for mine that will hopefully end up something like this.
ridethroughlife So a quick check on Google and I came up with °32.25 rake on the C3 Aero and °32.4 rake on the 1100 Sabre. Then again another site had them both listed at °32.4 so I can't be sure. Couldn't find any rake specs for the C2 Ace though....
ridethroughlife Good luck (Japanese engineers are crazy complicated) and have fun doing it! I'm currently working on a '59 Panhead and after the Honda project, working and the Harley seems sooooo simple, so straight forward, acessible, logical etc.. etc... ;-)
hey i have to know where i can get that sportster look alike gas tank (for a vt1100) please get back to me soon
Hand made one-of-a-kind... can't be bought. Cheers!
any luck with getting a tank ?
where did you get the rear fender
www.bluecollarbobbers.com
Did you yourself fabricate the gas tank?
I wish! No, I designed it and a buddy of mine did all the welding.
Do you remember the details of it such as thickness, composition, and what he used to weld it with?
No man sorry, it was like more than 3 years ago...
oh well then, thanks for the reply though! (:
Just looked through all my crap and found a bit of info. The steel used was 0.040" thick, the welding was done with a MIG. After, smoothing out of the fuel sight bung welds and mounting tab welds etc.. was done by brazing. Finished off with a tank sealer, I used Restom cuz it's local but there's a bunch of tried and true tank sealers out there. That's about all I got man :-)
Tankanzeige (Schlauch) Mfk tauglich?
www.lowbrowcustoms.com/diy-gas-tank-fuel-sight-gauge-kit-clear-brass-fittings.html
Ich will dass auch für meine shadow, wie kan ich das so machen, bitte!!!
Just build it man !! 🤘
bonjour ses homologuable en Suisse se genre de moto j en prépare une mes paraît t il que ses pas homologuable merci d avance !!!!
Sebastien Allamand Bonjour, la mienne est homologuée, tout dépend comment tu fais le travail mais c'est vrai que c'est plus compliqué en Suisse.
OK OK je pose la question vu la plaque je suis en vs ses pour sa que je me permet de poser la question d après les dire sa dépend de l expert et de la qualité de travail je voulais en savoir plus j ai déjà pas mal d heure sur la bécane sa serai contente de tout faire pour rien merci pour votre réponse !!!
why did you draw " Rising sun flag pattern"
Chris Lee cuz it's a Japanese motorcycle
Brakes.
Done since👍
Guys my dad owns the vt400 photos.car.gr/8650949_1_b.jpg
Can I make a bobber out of this? Is it easy and cheap enough?
He wants to sell it and I was thinking if I should keep it and build a bobber.
What do you guys think?
Billblackeye yes, you can do it for under a grand
Billblackeye I was trying to sell my 650 vstar for 1800 and I was getting no bites, so I decided to bob it, seat was a 100, taillights and plate with blinkers was a 100, new flat bar and grips and levers 130, and all the labor can done yourself, and fiber glass wrap 15 bucks