Adrian, that is good to hear. At least you are only out of the shipping costs. Glad it worked out that smoothly.
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Good news on the tank, I actually ended up phoning Gavin later on and he was telling me the tank he got for his Triton was so well done he was taken back that it was hand made
Dave, who built Gavin's tank?
The one for the Triton was built by the same company but the father did it and he passed on. His son then took over and started building the tanks apparently
Ah, that makes sense. The son does not have the skills and know of his dad.
It looks that way but at least he is prepared to give a money back return on this one
Yes, and that is the proper and decent thing to do. The tank is unsatisfactory. I would not have it on my bike.
Adrian
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It's actually the son-in-law who's making the tanks. At any rate, he was most obliging and cooperative, so I stand by my earlier comment about their good service.
Some more pics ...
Quite a lot going on in this pic - lightened chain guard and brake stay rod, Hagon shock and rearset
Right hand rearset, beautifully done!
Location of the battery
Looking good, hey?
Some more pics ...
Quite a lot going on in this pic - lightened chain guard and brake stay rod, Hagon shock and rearset
Right hand rearset, beautifully done!
Location of the battery
Looking good, hey?
Looking very good. 
Looking great I was just wondering when we would see a few more pics 
Adrian
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Cafe Racer Update
The saga of the tank has finally been sorted out. Gavin fixed the damned thing himself after a crash course in welding aluminium. He took an angle grinder to the tank (after much trepidation), cut the base off and then ground away the previous welds. This left a bit of an all-round gap as the base was now slightly narrower, so the bottom edges of the tank were massaged in to fit the base and welded properly this time ... hope I'm making sense! Sadly the indents for the clip-ons couldn't be smoothly repaired so he used a little filler and hid this underneath a neat paint job.
The Bonnie has been progressing well, see for yourselves ....
The saga of the tank has finally been sorted out. Gavin fixed the damned thing himself after a crash course in welding aluminium. He took an angle grinder to the tank (after much trepidation), cut the base off and then ground away the previous welds. This left a bit of an all-round gap as the base was now slightly narrower, so the bottom edges of the tank were massaged in to fit the base and welded properly this time ... hope I'm making sense! Sadly the indents for the clip-ons couldn't be smoothly repaired so he used a little filler and hid this underneath a neat paint job.
The Bonnie has been progressing well, see for yourselves ....
That is looking very smick. Great work.
AWESOME! agreed with Bonnie79 GREEN with envy!!!!!!
I was wondering what was haperning with this issue. Gavin to the rescure and from what I am seeing it looks like it turned out great
Looking VERY good.
Great to see things taking shape and looking really nice.
That tank looks fantastic.
Looking good.
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AWESOME!
