Our Work Is Never Over{4}
I spent another super fun and super draining weekend in Chicago with the Doublenauts for the Flatstock poster show / Pitchfork Music Festival (more on that soon) but before I left I dropped my moto off at Solid Cycles (aka Frank The Tank) so he could install that Black Beauty I’d been lusting after for so long.
I was going to do it myself… I’d installed done a fair bit of electrical on my last bike (including signals / tail light) and, I think, got pretty good at it but the modern electrical seemed much more complicated… I was right. There is a little electrical junction hidden inside the tail light that ties the signals to the main wiring harness so Frank had to make a few additional wiring harnesses to tie them all back together… Throw in a fender chop and I’m happy to have paid a pro to take care of, in a few hours, what would have easily taken me all day to figure out… If not longer.
Jul 18, 2012 @ 17:40:23
How much did Big Frank charge you for all that? Did you even get the rear fender repainted after the cut?
Jul 19, 2012 @ 09:59:52
Frank charged me $300 to do all that work including chopping the fender. =
He didn’t repaint the fender entirely but it looks like he coated the =
raw edge at least… It would have been about $200 but he had to spend =
so much extra time fiddling with the electrical – making wiring =
harnesses and whatnot… Definitely seemed fair to me – Frank does such a good job and makes sure everything is clean and done the way it should be.
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Jul 23, 2012 @ 15:15:38
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Our Work Is, Literally, Never Over
Aug 23, 2012 @ 16:24:53
[...] swap out the pipes for some Short Shots, the AC for the Joker, and the tail light for a Black Beauty and bingo, bango! I’ll have a bike that fits well, rolls like hell and will look 300% radder. [...]