Seat, Tank, and Bars

So Sorry it's taken so long.  But my bars and tank are done, and I have few pictures here.  This is my redone seat.  So the seat pan that I have been riding around for almost a year is actually the back up pan. The original as done and it looked so stinking stupid I could not live with it.  I was put in contact with a guy named Randy in Springville at Tumbleweed Leather.  He did a bang up job, just what I wanted in the first place. If you need leather work hit this dude up, he is legit!!

 The Tank here is all welded up.  I was placing the petcock in the spot I needed it.  Interestingly it was more thought provoking than expected.  Depending on the angle I put it at would determined how much I could use as a reserve or not.  I had to actually think well do I want to have a decent reserve or basically none at all.

 So I had welded the tunnel on a piece of flat and then tacked that into the tank.  I used my shops air grinder with a cutting disc to trim it out.  I looking into using Brady's nibbler, but time was of the essence.

 Tunnel freed at last.

 I little extra grind work, and then I went back around all the welds, now from what would of been the inside, and I didn't use any filler.  In industry it would be called a backing run, just welding the back side of the weld.  For some thing that will have to hold fluid this should be a must.

 Give me fuel, Give me fire, Give me a gas cap that is centered and I'll be happy.

Don't ask where my camera has been but this is the tank done, check Brady's facebook photo's of his day in the shop with me. But he'd got some good pics of this tank finished.  This here is the front mounts, I went for the hook under in the front to leverage it down.

 Here is the back mount.  I tell ya having the CNC cutter is awesome for some one off parts.

I use a liner called Red Kote, and I love it.  You can get it in a kit like Tank Kreem if you like.  But I have had no problems with it, but make sure you have great ventilation this stuff will knock you out.

The old tank mounted back on cuz I wanted to break the new bars in around the schools parking lot.  50mph straight aways, no biggie.  I love how the feel, the are so much better than the old ones.  Let me tell you this, all you that make bars out there, more power to you!  I had all the material cut I just needed to cope the uprights and it took me from 9 till 4 to get this set all welded and polished.  I was getting pretty pissed at times, just not lining up, not staying straight, errrr I almost threw them across the shop and said forget it.  Sorry this is the only picture of the bars, I was not in the documenting mood at the time, but I think they look good and they ride Great.  Brady's got the clear coat hook up, so hopefully not too much longer and we are in business.

Random

I peeped these over at bubble visor, definitely not the norm. I think they are super rad.

Then I saw this chopped Harley tank and thought it was super fantastic.  See more at kemosabe and the lodge 

Spare Time

So my life has been getting more and more hectic.  And as the school year progresses I feel like I'm just barely keeping my head above water.  But in my spare time (chuckles)  I have been working in some images and STEP files to send to a CNC.  Brady at TWFMco. has been wanting to start doing some bike bars for a while now.  so for you viewing pleasure I have 4 prototype images.  Please give my your feed back.

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Peep 1.0

So I posted some bars from Front Street Cycle a week or so ago, and tons of people thought I made them.  I had a link on the page to their site but it wasn't very noticeable.  Any who I updated that post and now you can see how I would of made them if they were mine.  You could make them straight bars, or put some drag right in them like this.  I think the added detail in the uprights add to the look a little.  But please add your thoughts  These bars measure about 9" high and 20" wide  the uprights are about 8" wide.

Bars 1.0

Bars 1.1

Peep

Over at Front Street Cycle they made these killer bars.  I think I can modify these banana bars and make them a little sicker.

http://frontstcycle.blogspot.com/2010/08/production-banana-bars-for-customer.html

Nerd Alert!

It's late and I'm tired/bored so why not make a post.

This is a concept of some new bars for my bike.  I don't know when I'll get to them, but I have it ready to go I suppose.  I also want to make a Coffin Tank for my bike, so I'll probably model that first cuz it's always good to have a plan before you start.  Also on my list is to make the holes in Brady's sign, which will happen much sooner than my tank or these bars. 

School has started and got into safety with the beginners this past week...I'm just gonna say I love to be descriptive when we start talking about First Aid.

I have a lot of previous pictures that I haven't loaded up yet, but this was from Go Skate Day 2010.  My bike was so close to being done but alas it was not.  So I followed in my tuck and had a blast, even lost a toe nail.  We went all to a bunch of parks here in Utah, this picture happens to be from the American Fork park. It was loads of fun I hope next year my bike will make it up parley's if we go that way.

Well I guess thats it I hope you liked it.

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