Almost a month since the last update, a lot has happened since
then. The seat came back from Perro Leather works, as I had removed
the upholstery to relocate the mounts for the seatsprings. Peer
did an excellent job reupholstering! I cut the sissybar to add
a chainguard, the sissybar and chainguard are now one piece and
the front of the chainguard is mounted to a new tab under the
horseshoe oiltank. As usual (on this bike anyway) I did the fabricating
and tack-welded everything in place and Aad added the beautiful
TIG welds.
I also added a bung for a magnetic drainplug to the lowest point
of the horseshoe oiltank. I designed a licenseplate and taillight
mount and had that lasercut. The taillight will be a brass plated
Motone Belair ( I designed this part for Motone by the way) .
The sissybar came out superstrong, which is what I wanted because
it will be used to tie my camping stuff on and have me leaning
against that... The whole idea here is to make everything as simple
and strong as possible as I want to put some serious miles on
this bike when it is done!
