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Savage project finished!

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Savage - making the details

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New Savage pictures added - engine mounts and assembly

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Who is V-Chops

V-Chops is founded by Sander Kraijema and Gabriel Patrascu, two Mechanical Engineering students at the TU Delft, The Netherlands, in 2007. This website is entirely non-profit; by its content we hope to ...

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Savage Project

The Savage project is all about building a bike from scratch, using the all-classic 1 cylinder 650cc Suzuki Savage engine. This big, lazy carburetor driven cylinder allows smooth handling with limited ...

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Shadow rebuilding engine

Shadow Project

Well, they made some nice looking bikes in the Eighties! The Honda VT700 Shadow was not one of them by the way. The Japanese did get some things right however – its got a twin engine and two wheels ...

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The bike is finished up and is technically fully approved, so a registered license plate can be installed! YEAH this rocking project is finished just in time for spring! The last pictures are added to the bottom of the Savage Project site!  

Savage project finished!

Scroll down the Savage Project Page to see all newly added pictures. A lot of work has been done on small and big details!

Savage – making the details

Visit the Savage Project Page for a bunch of newly added pictures. Taking big steps now – see how the enige mounts were designed, welded and how the tank, front suspension and wheels were put together for the forst time.

New Savage pictures added – engine mounts and assembly

The rolling chassis was put together, checked, updated and welded together. See all new pictures at the bottom of the updated Savage Project site! The rolling chassis was put together, checked, updated and welded together.

New pictures uploaded! Savage rolling chassis and welding.

Project update: epic pictures of the first frame welds made on this project! Want to see how the Savage frame was born? Check the Savage Project page.

Savage Project – First frame welding pictures!

Shadow rebuilding

Wanna see how a monstrously ugly Honda Shadow is turned into a rockin’ black mean machine? Check out the brand new Shadow Project page!

Shadow Project page added!

Newly added: illustrations on how the chassis design was calculated! Check the Savage Project site.  

Savage 3D frame model calculation pic’s

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The Savage 3D model pictures added – download the desktop backgrounds!  

Savage 3D design model

Hi’ya all, please visit the brand new ‘Who is V-Chops’ section to learn about the story behind V-Chops!

‘Who is V-Chops’ page section added

Gotta get the right angles!!

Be sure to check out the Savage Project photo’s section – some historic first production photo’s are added to the gallery! [supsystic-gallery id=2]

First Savage Project production photo’s added

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