Guy popped round last week and we had a bit of a chop afternoon. Always good to have great company!
Second tank all chopped. Loads of work still to do on them, but looking good.
My baby springer also showed up. It's gonna need some loving, but can't wait to get cracking on it!
Gotta maximise every bit of time I get up the barn now. Today was the sissy bar for the 345 (or the Kenosha kicker as it's now known), and narrowing tanks for the pan.
Had a spare day due to a last minute cancellation- sheer joy- a sneaky day up the barn!
Cracked on with the wideglide yokes today - time for more narrowing!
After too many years I've finally got a garage! Got our new house after a load of bother, and it has a little house on the side for bikes to live in.
The day after getting the keys sumo dropped the pan off to me, and here it sits in it's loverly new home until I have the reg documents in hand!
I picked up a spare set of yokes that will run on the pan, the wide glide front end is cool, but I'm thinking that I want to run a 21" wheel. A skinny front wheel in wideglide yokes doesn't look good to me, so they need to go on a diet!
I did some hunting on the net (and insta) and found a couple of pics of where people have done it in the past.
After some measuring I cut 2 inches out the middle.
I then marked up an old bit if scrap casting that I got cheap. Made a great flat bed to clamp the pieces to.
Welded up well, put deep chamfers on each edge to help with the strength of the weld when I clean it up (thanks to panhead Dave on insta for the advice) That's as far as I got for now...
I was getting loads of voids and inconsistencies with the lead, so I've had to consider other options. I was thinking of making either a conductive filler or paint to allow me to fill it in and still plate, but that's not looking so positive.
I have done some research and now there are paint processes that are just like chrome. I got a quote and it looks like plan b or c (whatever it is now) is going into full effect. Primer,loads of filler and even more elbow grease then off for the specialist coating.
The 345 finally arrived with me. So stoked to own such a class bike, and to have bought it from someone that I class as a good mate, even though we haven't met.
My buddy Jason (Bearpaws) over in Kenosha put this sweet baby together about 18 months ago. Even when he was building it I knew that when he sold it I had to buy it off him!
Sure enough Jason decided he needed a new project, so the street scrambler made way for this baby. Shipping took a while, but it finally reached me today!
It's absolute class. A but rough around the edges, but I love that! I have a few bits I want to change a little as most people do, but ultimately it's a great little bike put together by a good dude.
