Bend but don't break

Good advice. Seems to be how my life has been these last couple years. Challenges and obstacles are two things I don't remember quite being around as much back then, though I suppose they were indeed, just in different forms. Anyway, life is life and the show must go on and so we shall.

It is a good segway however, and the thought that popped in my head as I started this post. Bending not breaking. My new acquired Fury emblems will fit nicely, assuming I can get them to bend not break a bit themselves. Just a small curve actually so shouldn't be too difficult. Maybe apply a little heat to help it along. Or leave in sitting on the sidewalk here in Arizona for a few minutes might do the trick, too.

Next up is grind off the three small tabs on the back, since I doubt drilling holes in the gas tank to mount them that way is a good way to go. Something about lousy gas mileage or something...

One down and one to go.

A little side note. It's funny how grabbing a bench grinder (or a handheld grinder, too) and seeing as shower of sparks feels so cool. So custom. So freeing. You can tell I'm not a full time garage goer and don't spend my living doing mechanical things for this part to be this enjoyable. And I freely admit to not being the baddest mechanical genius ever, and I should probably just try to contain my jumping up and down at the thought of making a mess on the garage floor. And not mention such things, you know, here on the internet.

Anyway...

The size appears to be just right, too. A little smaller than my initial Photoshop trials, though no one ever said Photoshop had reality down, so no loss there. I think this smaller size is really better anyway, and once I trim the bottom of the tank off visually, they should be perfect.

I've got a couple of options of the actual tank colors yet to choose, but I'm thinking pretty retro on this one. A mint or teal, with a cream colored off-center stripe that lines up with the gas cap, which is also off-center. Hopefully this will look as intended and will also not mess me up while riding and trick me into thinking I'm in a constant right hand turn. Though with the forks aligning the way they are right now, that may happen anyway. We shall see.

At any rate, it's a theme here. Off-center. 

Good. Bad. Or otherwise, it fits me like a glove.