2004 Lifestyle Cycles Hardcore II Chopper

Popularised by the movie "Easy Rider", the chopper movement really took off in the 1960s and continues to evolve today thanks to the popularity of companies like Jesse G.James' West Coast Choppers. With their heavily raked front forks and customised frames, the chopper is a uniquely American take on the traditional motorcycle, one ideally suited to the wide open spaces and vast freeway networks of the West Coast. Although every chopper is personalized to some degree, they invariably contain certain basic ingredients like a V-Twin engine, fat rear tyre, rigid-type frame and of course the heavily raked front-end. The modern chopper goes well beyond the traditional home-built method of construction, more often than not using factory kits and high quality billet aluminium parts. The Hard-Core II rigid kit is an excellent example of the modern chopper breed, consisting of a single down tube frame, custom raked front fork with triple trees, 21-inch spoked front and 18-inch spoked rear wheels, chrome billet belt pulley, Santo "Y Bent" exhaust pipes and RevTech running gear.