XS2---StreetTracker slowly coming together

[DanW]

I finally found someone who can bend 3/4" tubing 180 degrees so this weekend I'll be having a rear frame hoop welded on to look like the champion style frame. Once that's done I'll be fabricating a champion style seatpan out of fiberglass which may take a while since I've never done it before. It's been slow progress but fun all the way.

 

[DanW]

Got the subframe "hoop" welded on with a license plate/brake light bracket last week. Now just getting started on fabricating the seat pan--good friend of mine is a fiberglass guru who is actually writing a book on the process and using my bike as an example.

 

[Street Tracker]

Great to see you get started not enough trackers on here so it is always good to see another start. Who's exhaust is that you have on?

 

[mookybird]

Nice clean bike Dan, good luck with your seatpan project and be sure to post the results.

denny

 

[DanW]

The exhaust is done by Scott Gordon and came out perfect--he's the man! We started forming the seat pan with 1/8 plywood and some cardboard to try and figure out the shape. Its gonna eventually look very close to a champions style seat pan--Nobody sells one for the xs2 so I figured I'd do it myself

 

[Street Tracker]

Dan,
Are the pipes and megaphones stainless steel or what finish did you do?

 

[DanW]

The pipes are regular steel and I had a local guy do a ceramic coating on them so they will never change color no matter how hot they get

 

[scabber]

Looks Great Dan. Good to see your making your own pan. I think that I have found a use for that old sissy bar off my 79.

 

[DanW]

Worked on the seatpan again-- got the foam formed and sanded to the shape I think looks good. Next week we should be laying fiberglass down if I can get some time off work.