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The design went through several iterations. Its not like American Chopper where the design is fully thought out before anything else is done. instead, I just started doing what I felt like on the bike. the first thought was to sand the paint down to bare metal, repaint in a metallic finish to make the bike almost look like a delorean, mid way through that i realized that wouldn't fit me so I tried to sand off the wet paint, it left it with a very cool hammered and beaten finish in the metal, so I ran with it and made the bike look like an old hammered army bike.


The bikes design stayed like that for a few weeks until i decided to redo the tank with fresh coat of paint. there was a dent the size of someones palm on the right side of the tank when i bought it and i wanted a fresh start with no dents. I took the tank in to work where I have access to all kinds of tools and various danger. One of my co- workers offered to help me remove the dent. he took the torch and heated up the area. what he forgot to do was check the tank to make sure I cleaned it enough... as the picture below illustrates I didn't clean it out very well at all.

So it was off to buy a new tank