Originally I was gonna go with a braided stainless steel fuel line - and have those purchases I now won't be using to prove it- (hush it!), but after doing this paint scheme and the emblem concept, it seems like retro is more the way to go here. I'm not quite sure yet how far, exactly, I want to go with this 'theme' and since I'm having some trouble figuring out the rear tail light mounting, maybe not very far at all.
But still, like some things, it's always looking good in the mind's eye, so that's how I'll look at it for now.
Anyway, back to the fuel line retro thing. I thought I would instead go with a transparent brass colored line and some simple connectors instead of the braided stainless. The braided stainless was gonna be more rock and roll looking for sure; more hot rod. but somehow I dunno, I'm digging this solution instead, so I'm go with it and considered decision made and move along.
Move along.
It's a little more 'cafe' in it's application, which might help the overall look of this build back into that category vs. the I dunno what it is custom sort of direction it currently feels like it's headed in.
Plus now I can tell if I'm out of gas easily. (Probably not).
I also picked up some 1/4" clear tubing to use for the vent hoses, so that should look good, too. Not pictured above, but again- mind's eye- it's all looking good...
Funny side story- twice now the garbage guys in the truck are cruising through the complex making noise at 6:am, and we wave to each other as they drive past me walking to the garage with my morning cup of coffee and a bag full of motorcycle parts and barely clothed. They must think I'm some sort of weirdo.
(hush it!)
It's funny though, how sitting on a stool in the garage with a cup of coffee, and connecting one end of a new fuel hose and shoving the other end up inside the tank just to make for a better picture - doing that - is still kinda fun. Seeing something, planning something, making decisions on a look of something, then seeing it in the flesh with a real eye instead of that mind's eye - love this part.
And I do like it when it works out, too. That part's always nice...
It's also interesting how, just putting it there and stepping away from it, looking at things from over here and over there, makes it look like it's coming together. Like it's getting done.
It's been a slow train, this build. I could have had this done months ago, should I have found myself in a different personal space, or a different financial space. Which does make me wonder if this is something I'll choose to do again, or again and again, in the future. When life gets normal for me once again.
I wonder...
No comments:
Post a Comment