Here is an alternative way to produce a tail section for your bike with a minimal amount of tools and about $50 worth of material.

Materials needed: Epoxy Resin, Fiberglass resin, Fiberglass cloth, Sandpaper in varying grits, Paint and Primer, Painters tape, Aluminum tape or Tin foil (The tape is better and more expensive. Don’t let the Jankeys see it, or they’ll scrap it!), Drop cloth, and Floor wax, Cardboard, and Something to create the overall shape of your tail. i.e. shapeable foam, clay, the rear section of a gas tank, an old KZ tail, a salad bowl, or a mailbox.

Here is the site I used to get a better understanding of what is involved.  It has pictures and step by steps to build yourself a killer custom chopper seat pan.  http://www.jeffreyphipps.com/seat_pans.htm

Do the glassing neatly, in that I mean, no bumps or air bubbles.  This will make your sanding and filling time later less annoying.

For the true grit hicksters

If you have any questions email me. Next up…Upholstery
-Richard
rwyerkes@gmail.com

I left Gallipolis, OH this morning right after the fog lifted on the Ohio river scenic byway.

Aaron and I had spent his day off tooling on “the motorcycle that will never run.” We got it…well…, sounding better? Maybe, but we did get gas all over us. It was nice to see him talking like a real Ohio’an, as well as Erin. man, she’s funny!

Rode rt7 to the country music highway to blast it to Asheville. I was quickly greeted by rain, suited up, and rode hard. In and out of rain all day and it was fukn collllllllllddd.

40 miles from Ashville I got some sun. Unsuited and went to Asheville pizza and brewery. Sweet spot, met some townies with the word on the street and booked a bunk at the sweet peas hostel. They have a fukn brewery! What are the chances?!

Talk to you soon.

-Richard

- late start saturday morning
- left Philly at about 10:30am
- tach stopped working 20 miles from the house. Fuckin dumb!
- I set up camp after 300 miles outside shenandoah, george washington state forest
- now on my way to Gallipolis, OH to see aaron and erin. hopefully they’ll answer my phone call

-Richard

Its on Saturday morning! I will be back when the spirits are gone.

I have been working in the shop getting the bike together for the past week. I made a windscreen to keep the bugs out of my teeth when i’m grinning down the the dragon.

I used an old helmet visor from the 70s and some aluminum stock from ACE hardware.
I also built panniers out of vintage Italian military bags and mounted a 3/8 aluminum rod from the rear foot rest mount to the fender to keep the bags out of the wheels and shocks.

Here’s a look at the bagger.

While I was at it I made a belt buckle out of a thrashed generator cover from a 354.

-Richard