The Cinderella story continues...

So now we were able to install the wider swing arm we needed for the wider rhim and tyre. Orderd a rear fender at Zodiac and customised it to the radius of the white wall of the 170 mm wide tyre (measures 180 mm because of the rhim and looks like 200 mm). The solid fenderstruths were cut in two places and welded together again to the width of the rearfender. Made 'from the inside bolt system' for the fender, looks smooth and cool. Just two holes for the bag supports are still visable. Taillight holes were drilled... All the platework was picked up by the painter for a 'dark black' layer (or two) of paint .

The front & rear fender and struths, the tanks and new tank dash were getting that special treatment with somekind of extra special strong paint... At the same time the handle bar controls, front and rear brake caliper, inner and outer primairy, mirror, raisers all were getting polished. For the rear brake we had a special idea; lower mount with custom made anchor, so it's hidden behind the exhaust.

Another special idea we had for the 'paint job; at first I wanted an Old School flames paint job on the tanks. Then my friend Sean pointed out the 'liquide-flames' to me and said that these might be cool as well. We desided to order the metal flake black ones... I think we were the first ones to order them 'cause MCS had to find an importer first to beable to order them. After a while they came in and we started the assemble right away. The tanks even look much bigger with the flames attached.

The assembly went quite quickly and without serious problems. We swopped the little bates headlight for an old springer version which was gettering dust on a shelf. Old style grips slided on the handle bar and taped rounded itself around it... All the polished shit was cleaned and re-assembled, we were almost done I guess. "Hey, what about a custom made seat..?" Hell, why not. We came across a secondhand limited fatboy seat and ripped it apart. After an afternoons work the new solo seat was ready to be recoved with black leather and stitched 'tug 'n' roll' style.

When finally... all stuff was assembled and double checked, dotted the i's and crossed the t's... oil back in transmission and oil tank. Gasoline in the tanks... one kick and she spun like a happy cat... Here is the result of a couple of months work and a lot of waiting on parts...

It was a lot of work enoyed whilst doing it, learned loads of new stuff mentored by Sean and I'm damned proud of the result, don't care if another hates it...

By the way; the story was cool enough to make it, full page, to the Dutch 'bikerlifestyl' magazine "BigTwin"...

(Thanx to Idex for some of the pictures...)