A little more progress on the chop/bob updated 2-21-11 RUNNING VIDS!

[sydmonster]

+1 on clip ons! Best to you man! I lorv this project of yours.

[Pasta Bobber]

The tank is almost done now. the trim plate holds the guages in. The funky primer was just to help find any leaks. I think everything will end up black. I have some new ideas for the bars, we'll see how it all goes. Fire away........

[Howley]

Dude...

So Good! I even like that colour, kinda old fashioned in a good way.

[Autostrada Pilot]

Very cool.    I can't wait to see this completed.

[dbran1949]

Looks great, how are you going to run the wires to the gauges? Will they come up from the bottom of the tank through a sleeve?

[Monster Dave]

Things are looking good - I really like how the gauges are integrated into the tank - innovative idea for sure. 

I'm sure that fabrication on the tank wasn't easy, but IMHO, I think that the tank still needs some shaping work. If you look at the image above, you can see that the tank bulges out at the bottom near the forks and doesn't follow the line of the bike very closely. The same goes for where the tank trims down near the seat pan, in looks as though it tapers in more narrow than the frame (ie the frame bulges out wider than the tank). I'm sure that's a tough one though since the frame must be shaped like that.

I also notice that the steel plate that will hold the gauges on doesn't match the contour of the tank - is that just a mock up?

In anycase, good work - I hope that my observations are taken constructivly rather than negatively critical. 

[TAftonomos]

Agree with above.  Looks like a tank with a bike attached at this point.  Please don't take it personally, as I'm fully aware of the amount of fab work that it takes to come up with a tank.

I think that if you want the low bar/drag bar/clip on style, you need a tank that isn't nearly as deep.  Conversly, you should be able to get away with a much larger/taller tank if using taller more upright bars.

[teddy037.2]

gauges=neat

but with how that tank sits, the drag bars are starting to look funny (damn shame, as I love drag bars)

bars w/swoopy risers might look better w/that tank

[Duck-Stew]

The tank doesn't 'fit' the bars (but you know that already). 

Nicely done thus far, but the large-ish shape of the tank necessitates some form of rear fender that carries the color to the back 1/2 of the bike (IMO).

If you *must* use the stock gauges, then you have come up with a nice solution.  If it were me, I would've put 41mm Keihin flat-slides on it and an ignitech box with a more minimalist tank.  But, you know that as we've discussed that avenue at length already.

Great work so far, and keep it up.  You (and the bike) will only get better the more you monkey with it! 

[Pasta Bobber]

Looks great, how are you going to run the wires to the gauges? Will they come up from the bottom of the tank through a sleeve?

Yeah, we welded a tube that goes through the tank out the bottom for the wires. I'll connect everything with a cannon plug for easy tank removal.

[Pasta Bobber]

Agree with above.  Looks like a tank with a bike attached at this point.  Please don't take it personally, as I'm fully aware of the amount of fab work that it takes to come up with a tank.

I think that if you want the low bar/drag bar/clip on style, you need a tank that isn't nearly as deep.  Conversly, you should be able to get away with a much larger/taller tank if using taller more upright bars.

The pics make the size of the tank a little decieving. The bike is sooo low. if I make the tank to small it looks like a toy! We took a good three inches of it out compared to the last tank. The trim plate on the guages is not done yet (contour and what not) we may still change the shape of it too. Not sure if I like the spade shape. I'm ok with the tail of the tank not matching the width of the frame. We did some mock up and it looked really weird when we tried to follow it. I'm cool with a kind of open look.

Now that the tank is nearing completion, I've actually decided to change the rear sub frame quite a bit. There is another guy in town who allready copied my rear suspension so I gotta keep em all guessing now Stew we're definately running a rear fender of some stubby sort and the color will match. I'm thinking everything will be black all criticism is allways considered constructive. Thanks to all and keep it coming. Thanks guys............

[sydmonster]

What a great project!
ill go back to my original suggestion of clip ons. The leading edge is so critical to my eye that for me it is spoilt with risers & bars. The guages would look better countersunk. anyway 2c

Keep it up mate! 

[greenohawk69]

Over a month now...and no update.   

I think you should go with a different color than black.  Seems everybody is doing black these days.  Just not very creative/imaginative. 

[greenohawk69]

Update?  Pics?  Please.   

[Pasta Bobber]

Sorry I've been so absent from the board lately. Lifes had us kinda slammed, put a nice 999 together, house, work, website all that crap, slowly gettin caught up. Started back up on the bike a little. Got a hold of a set of keystone bars from Biltwell. Not the bars I imagined, but they bring the tank back into proportion and give a cool bobber old school chop look, and shoot a decent line down the tank, I may take a look at some clip ons one more time too. The bars still have the sock on em so I don't scratch them, sorry heres some pics.



No Risers...


With risers