Front Fender Part II

As posted previously, it's very usefull to have a front fender when you live in Denmark. One of the tasks this weekend was to fabricate the struts and paint all of it.
I dont have all of the trim yet, but it will be similar to the rear fender.

Back In Black

A few days ago I painted the tanks, I tried to make the same finish as the rear fender, to make it blend inn.

Tank emblems

To make the gas tanks a bit more sexy, a long time ago I decided to install a set of tank emblems, the only problem was that all the nice original/ original period accessory once really didn't fit the budget with a price of 200-300$... plus shipping, plus taxes.
For that reason I decided to try to see if I could get away with installing a set of replica tank emblems.

I had a set of 1959-1969 replica emblems on stock, and except for the red color I like the design, so I had to at least change the color.
I started with removing the red, after that I gave the chrome some fake patina, and for the last thing I repainted the letters and the background.
For the background I chose dark blue with inspiration from the blue Comiskey tank emblems.

Knucklehead bobber

These days I try to make everything ready for my knucklehead project

Flanders Fever

After a lot of Flanders influence from the bikes around me in Copenhagen, and sitting day after day in front of the computer and watching cool Flanders and Flanders style handlebars being sold at eBay, I decided to make my own handlebars with BIG inspiration from Flanders.

I found two set of old 1" handlebars with some nice bends, chopped them apart and welded everything up as I wanted it.

For the internal throttle my freind Henrik Tvilling gave me an old springer handlebar end, and in the left hand side I milled a similar connection between the throttle and the handlebars. I milled it as a tight fit, to be able to crimp and solder it on to the bars.

I have always liked a double riser setup, the most famous one might be the one on the Captain America bike from Easy Rider, and the first time I saw the flanders U-riser setup I was in love, so ofcause that's what I had to made for theese bars, combined with a casted Harley riser.
As a start I bourght the cheapest set of 4" Flanders style risers that I could find at eBay, chopped them apart and milled a 7/8" flange from the lower part, to make a smooth connetion to a U-shaped tube.
For the tubing my first idea was to get two bends made by a blacksmith, and after that get them chromed, but luckily one of my freinds had a set of Honda handlebars (7/8") stocked on his shelf, with the correct bends for my riser setup.

Chop, chop..

After approximately 10 manhours and $200, I had this sweet homemade setup for Hydra Glide forks:

Wheel discs

Christmas came early this year... Last weekend Lau and Kasper held a really cool auction in the backyard of their shop "Motorious" (if you visit Copenhagen, you just have to go there), I was so lucky to get a set of Baas Metal Craft wheel discs, really cheap for my upcoming traditional bobber project.

Drum brake side, with a slightly bigger center hole, and smaller access for the inflating valve