Bike Builds

So managed to decide on some artwork for the tank, I called her Skull-Eisha. Sounds like more of a Jerry Springer Guest than a sketch on the tank.

Nice cafe racer from Cafe Racer 74.Really into the flat seats at the moment.

Yep that's right it's what the label says but without the chickens, although I just ate a whole roasted chicken for dinner and am now contemplating laying an egg.Since we decided to move the electrics under the seat we …We used google sketchup for the first time to draft up the box and once we were happy we printed out the drawing and traced it onto a sheet of Ally and proceded to cut and fold.

So we got around to spraying some coats of paint onto the Frame/swingarm/forks and a number of other items. We put about 4-5 coats of paint on, starting with a light tack coat then onto the final wet coats.

So we managed to strip the frame and swingarm off the original paint removing any rust.We used paint stripper and after that a wire brush attachment on the grinder, and a smaller brush on the drill to get into …Now ready for paint!.

So we've spent a lot of time on the seat getting it smooth and true. Started out with some sanding, then some filler, then some more sanding, then some more filler, repeat x 20.

First snapshot of the hand stitched leather seat. Picked up the leather from a shop in Lutwyche.

So last night we stripped the paint off the tank using some 3M paint stripper. This was the hardest working stripper I've seen since my 21st birthday FAT A GRAM party.