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Stripping the wire harness today. Terrifying but done. Also got another $100 worth of supplies. A handfull of tubes from the “cut room”. Some more grinding disks and some map gas. Also filled my welding tank. That was another $60.

$160/$382

Backbone is cut and welded in. Tank is mounted.

Pipe bent $0 thanks to Cage this roll cages. Some steel cut offs from the metal place dow the street from my work. $6. Bars started. Cant wait to start with the backbone. Gunna be tricky to get cut right and welded in.

$6/$222

Heat

$41 worth of pipe

4 feet of 1.5” .120 wall DOM for the backbone

1 foot of 1.75” .120 wall DOM for support gussets

$41/$216

Chop

Saw blades, gloves, square stock for mock up jigs. $80/$175

Lenny was helping.

Bin of Harley parts bought off the market place. $50. Sold the unsable stuff for $30. Bitwel seat, oil tank for a electrical box. Some ods and ends for foot controls and pegs. Licence plate holder. $20/$95

Unknown year harley sportster tank. $75. Seems a shame to paint this tank because its in perfect condition. Not a scratch.

Starting up tumblr again to document a build. A special build im memory of my fallen friend stephen salazar who passed away earier this year on his 2001 honda shadow vlx 600. The crashed bike was given to me out of the blue. It was a shock to receive it. I feel responsible for steve in a way. He was a young curious man. Always asking questions and actually listening. Absorbing. The last post I made here was about loosing one of my best friends Rick. So here we start again.

My heart stays broken.

I will never be the same