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dunno if its worthy of being in here but i thought it may be of interest as its still fabrication and it took fkn days!!!!.....Its a fuel tank for my 2009 CRF450x that has been fitted with a CR500 engine...... its been hand beat /english wheeled/sandbagged/welded you name it its been there!I still need to bump out a few ripples, start making the bottom and weld in the filler cap thread

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yeah the CR500 engine guzzle fuel like nothing so i needed extra capacity which i will gain at the rear near the carb....also the original tank run too close to the sparkplug and water outlets on the big bangers head so i also did it to make extra room at the front

....its been hand beat /english wheeled/sandbagged/welded you name it its been there!

jesus....not words you see often on here....don't suppose you took progress pics too? that is one super complex shape

jesus....not words you see often on here....don't suppose you took progress pics too? that is one super complex shape

no i didnt....a camera was the last thing on my mind.....although my bro and his mate built this thing that weighed 170 something kilos with over 170HP at the wheel piloted by current world endurance champion steve martin at the phillip island classics and it fkn destroyed everyone taking almost 2 seconds off the lap record and winning every race by a massive ten seconds......i think they are going for more HP and he is currently building a new frame thats bound to be a work of art.....im pretty sure he wants me to make a tank so i will get some pics in progress if you like....heres the bike!

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Check out that clean shirt! Christ you are a good looking man !

I never knew you felt that way about me......i guess i should have known from all those times youve asked me in for a coffee after any of our outings.....im chuffed......

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long live the two strokes!!!! yep an ex-Yamaha RD rider right here. Well sort of ex, I sitll have it among my dad's massive collection of rd and rz's, but its just in pieces begging for a revival.

This kind of work is unfortuantley fading but seeing stuff like that makes me wonder why people like the computerised stuff when something hand made comes out as good as that, well done.

Ariel

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