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I should be rolling tomorrow..

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I made a wood and bondo buck of what I wanted my fender to look like.
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Prepped it for making a mold.
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Sprayed the gel coat.
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Reinforced the mold and popped it off.
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Layed fiberglass in the new mold.
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Popped out a perfect fender half.
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Made another.
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Put them together to make one whole fender.
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Ok, I was satisfied with the way everything was going together so I took it all apart to do some final welding and paint.

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The orange paint with the vinyl for the seat and the orange grips... all matching really well!

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sanding the frame down for a clearcoat. the theme colors are raw metal and orange!

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The seat pan with new chrome springs and the vinyl cut for the sewing machine.

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Stripped down the spaceliner fork so I can strip it to raw metal and paint the fork ends orange.

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The goal is to have this back together tomorrow night for the Run to the Pines car show on saturday. Might not be entirely detailed but it will look good either way!
 
Ok... one more teaser of the bike.

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The trailer/dolly base visible when being towed.

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Trailer detail work.

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All loaded up for Tour de Fat! I'm headed down right after work friday. Far left is the Mother Road "Little Red Express Trike," then the OHSO "Space Freighter" and on the right my "Keg Trike"

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All finished and we had a blast at the tour! the folks at OHSO Eatery and Nano Brewery in Scottsdale were stoked!

Getting to the Tour.

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Set up to show off, and stay cool.

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Jon from OHSO with his first look at his trike.

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Out for a test ride.

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the trikes new home.

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