Go to page: 1 - The Beginning 2 - Oil tank, seat & gas tank 3 - Coils & fender 4 - Electric box & frame 5 - Welded frame & battery 6 - Oil tank, seat & taillight 7 - Painted parts & covered seat 8 - Painting and final assembly 9 - Last minute changes & starting 10 - Final bike photos Credits: Me: guy that owns the bike and comes up with "great" ideas that usually don't work. I can't weld Dad: does most of the tack welding and brings home lots of scrap metal from the weld shop where he works. (when I say "I welded" I mean "Dad welded") Brother-in-law Rich: mechanical engineer that comes up with great ideas that do work. Also has the mig welder that my Dad and I borrow when we work on the bike. Last updated Tuesday, August 02, 2005		I got the oil tank bolted on, and the sidecovers drilled and mounted. I haven't finished cleaning up all the welds on the oil tank yet. I put a quick coat of primer on the fresh welds.		Click for a larger view
			Here is the right side of the oil tank. I have my brake light switch mounted to the oil return pipe. If you enlarge the photo, you can see the horn and ignition switch mounted to the sidecover.		Click for a larger view
			With the weekend coming to a close, I quickly put everything together for a quick mockup and photos. The seat is just sitting on some bolts and a washer for now. I'm waiting on some new hairpin style solo seat springs. The springs in the photo are temporary.		Click for a larger view
			I can't wait to ride this thing. I will be working on the bike again over the Thanksgiving weekend. Hopefully I can figure out the rear wheel spacing, and get all my electrical stuff wired up. The rear wheel currently doesn' align in the center of the frame when the sprocket is lined up correctly. I may have to have some spacers machined or space out my front sprocket.		Click for a larger view
			I'm finally mounting the seat for real now. The first thing I did was to drill holes in the frame. (after figuring out where they need to go) Then I cut some 5/8" rod to the height that I thought I needed to mount my springs to and drilled them out and tapped them to fit a 1/4" bolt.		Click for a larger view
			I I welded the rods into the holes in the frame. Then screwed the bolts into the tapped holes. I figured out how much threads needed to be cut off the bolts, cut them and epoxied them into the holes. After the epoxy dried, I cut off the heads and drilled holes in them to accept a clip pin.		Click for a larger view
			Here are the springs mounted onto the new seat posts. You can see that the springs are bolted to the bottom of the seat, but not to the seat poles I just made. Thats because I want to be able to lift the seat to access the battery area and fuses without any tools... It may not look clean to some people, but I would rather err on the side of practicality.		Click for a larger view
			Making the bracket for the taillight was fun. I cut out a cardboard template of what I wanted it to look like. Then cut it out on the band saw, smoothed all the edges and bent it in a vise... only to find that I had bent it the wrong way. So, I started all over, this time bending it the right way. I think it turned out pretty well. The huge washers in the photo won't be on the final piece. That was only temporary.		Click for a larger view
			Here's the STOP light from the front. Click the image to see the whole thing.		Click for a larger view