Sunday, October 10, 2010

why Frisco a tank when you can Motown it?

i realized today after pulling the tank to get to the wiring that i wasnt able to turn the bars all the way before because the triple trees were hitting the lip of the tank at the top. i drained the fuel before so i pulled it off the bike and started playing with where i can mount it to correct this problem. at first i tried to move it back to its stock location. this tank is not OEM for the bike model its a replacement becuase the last one turned into modern art at the sight of a blow torch. this gave me tons of clearnence but,

1.) you could see all the wires i was trying to hide and

2.) there was no way to mount it there because the oem tank didnt bolt thru it just rested on some little tits that stuck out.

so shit... i was frustrated. so i came up with a plan b. the trees were hitting on the pressed lip of the tank at the very front where the top of the tank seams with the bottom of the tank. its meant to give it a definite and finished edge. so fuck that. i laid the tank on the ground and proceded to beat the edge down with a little wooden hammer i got from my dad. its not metal to metal so there were not sparks (fool me once) and its not a rubber or a dead blow so it didn't leave a circular impression. it just rolled the seam under itself and gave the neck of the tank a little tucked in collar. i'm calling it "motowning" a tank because as far as i am aware a "Frisco'd" tank is where the sides are indented. i don't know why its called "Frisco" but I'm calling this style "motown" because i lived in a detroit suburb til i was 14 and i just beat the tank like it owed me money. so thats a copyright right there. snoogins

edit: I finally learned what Frisco'd is... but this tank is still Mo'town'd

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