I read the post. With the upper stretch and the short placement of the forward controls… it looks like it would be uncomfortable.

The comment about the fuel gauge being a door handle was a joke… that’s what it reminded me of. (Combined with all the other hardware.) It doesn’t change the fact that I think it looks like hell. You said you built the bike for a little over 4 grand and couldn’t weld the nuts on the INSIDE of the tank?

And absolutely, you DON’T have to run anything by me, or agree with anything I say, but you did put a bike that you built up on a public forum, where you knew people would comment on it.

This is my opinion. Which you agreed to deal with by posting pics on here. You have all of my encouragement to keep on building. I hope it works out well for you. But before you start copping an attitude, with your vast 8 builds under your belt, how about accepting some aesthetic criticism from someone who might know a little about it?

A negative critique doesn’t ever feel great, but take whatever good you can get from it and leave the rest. Does everybody have to like your builds? And do you ever learn anything if everybody just slaps you on the back and tells you what a good job you’re doing?

Good luck with that…

I LOVE the headlight. It’s one of those little things that can really give a bike something special. I like the darkness of the bike, with a few of the brass accents it really works. But then it all goes wrong.

The smashed fork gators look bad… really bad. And worse they are totally pointless and squashed to the point where they look like they could actually impede shock absorption… (I said “look like”.)

What at first looks to be a brass drawer handle mounted to the side of the tank (I chuckled at myself there) is what appears to be two brass elbows with a piece of tube in between… a crude gas gauge? A reason to tack more brass onto the bike? Whatever… it ain’t pretty.

The factory neck gusset is really nasty looking and would be a pretty simple fix. A little grinding, a couple of solid pieces of steel plate and a little welding and the front would be really cleaned up… with that much showing, it really needs work.

The pipes should have ended where the bottom tail rails start running up to the axle plate…running past it only exaggerates the effect of the sag that already exists, making them look like an afterthought.

Finally, other than the fact that between the long stretch and clip-ons it looks REALLY uncomfortable, that wide white wall breaks up all of the flow created by the dark coloring and brass accents… it would look better without the white.