Cafe Racer Tank for Virago

in #motorcycle7 years ago

I just received the new tank I ordered for the Virago Cafe Racer conversion. You can see in my previous posts the the original fuel tank is definitely not suited for cafe racer styling so I needed to make a change. I ordered the new tank from ebay and it has arrived. I did some initial layout configurations to see how it would look and what is the best position. Check it out:

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In the previous post, I talked about how cafe racers are typically stripped down with the philosophy of "less is more". The other general style guide is to have a prominent straight horizontal line along the bottom edge of the tank and continuing to the seat. As you can see, the tank I purchased has the straight horizontal line on the bottom edge so we mocked up some coat hanger wires to approximate where the seat will be when it is installed.

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Obviously, this is all just mocked up but it was really good to do this to help visualize where everything is going to be. Also I used the bent coat hanger wire to help me choose the seat I want to get.

One more cool picture of the mock up:

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Any comments on the plan so far? What do you think?

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nice tank! very good progress too

Little by little it comes together. This is recycling at its best, take something destined for a landfill and not only make it functional again but make it awesome!