Wouldn't it be cool if you could
build your own gas tanks and fenders and stuff?
YES!!
That's why we decided first
to learn how that works and second to buy the nececary tools
and equipment to do so;-)
All started when Sandra
was talking to Andrea from the Harley
Brothers Luxembourg during their summer party in 2006. Andrea
mentioned something about courses at the Fahrzeug
Akademie Schweinfurt.
Back home Sandra checked
on the internet and found the english
wheel course (how to build a motorcycle gas tank)
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And there we are!
Pretty cool: during
the four days everyone build his own fender and gas tank that
you can take home at the end of the seminar.
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First you hammer like hell! That's
about 80% of the work.
Then you smooth it out with the
English Wheel
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Same
for th tank sides!
And then welding everything
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Pretty good for our
first two tanks we have ever build, isn't it? |
Part II:
Üse's birthday present
Back home I remembered
that Üse wanted to have an old style tank for a long
time. And his birthday was right around the corner.
So we made a tank...
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The
tank should fit on a stock HD frame with a Knuckle engine. |
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