I'm a founding member of the Chopper Riding Urban Dwellers of SF, CA. I owe it all to the www. CHUNK, SCUL and your own much-enjoyed BR&K are my inspirations, but I'm also a motorcycle nut, which of course contributes. I'm glad you dig my chopper- it's named Sandman, after the late singer of the group Morphine and also the Metallica song.
Here's the tech rundown: Late-'70s Huffy frame, with the rear triangle of a girl's BMX added to the rear, and another bottom bracket from a lady's Murray extending down and forward from the original. The steering yokes were machined after-hours at work to emulate motorcycle parts, and the fork legs are mild steel tubing with the fork ends off the girl's BMX bike, welded in the bottoms. Front wheel is origin unknown, I assume, off a department-store-type girl's bike, it's 18", has stainless-steel spokes; and is most people's favorite thing about the bike.
I used a suspension seatpost to support the rear of the banana seat, to give a little comfort, not unlike the suspended banana seat on Raleigh Choppers.
Future plans involve setting up a mount for a small boombox in the frame, so I can play 'Smoke On the Water' and 'Free Bird' and 'Born To Be Wild' while I ride. Probably lots of lights too.
Keep on choppin'
