Copper Chopper wowed us earlier this month with an impossibly elegant SR400 bobber, built from scratch and laden with tasty handcrafted bits. It was Alexey and Igor’s first commissioned build since taking their shop from sideline gig to full-time business. Before that, they’d simply build a bike according to their own taste, sell it and move on to the next one.
That’s how this spunky Harley ironhead bobber came to be. Copper Chopper started with a beat-up donor bike, transformed it with a selection of salvaged and custom parts, and put it up for sale. And, unsurprisingly, it’s already found its new home.

The shiny machine you’re looking at here truly is a far cry from the original 1976-model Harley-Davidson XLCH1000 Sportster that Alexey sourced for the project. ?When I bought it was in a very poor condition,? he tells us. ?Most of the parts were rusty, the heads were leaking oil and the front end was damaged.?

The guys started by pillaging Alexey’s 2013-model Sportster for parts?specifically its forks and rear shocks. They shaved the brake mounts off the fork lowers, polished them up, and mounted a 21? front wheel with a tiny drum brake hub, bought from Lowbrow Customs.
There’s a brand new reproduction 16? wheel out back, also equipped with a drum brake. The tires are vintage-style Firestones.

The old ironhead mill looks clean enough to eat off?but it didn’t start out that way. It underwent a full rebuild inside and o...