Oil bag conversion?? Does anyone know how
#11
03-22-2012, 12:53 PM
Road Master
What I plan on doing is making a new oversized battery box with a perforated plate at the back to attach my circuit breakers/relays/ignition box to. That will free up the "under the seat rat's nest" in my bike's case, and make room for the oil tank. But yeah, there's not a lot of room under there 
#13
03-23-2012, 01:31 AM
If you're asking my opinion, I don't like that mod on 04 & up bikes. I think your eyes are drawn more to the oil tank itself rather than the bike as a whole. You blow the old school look away once you expose that area of the frame. Old school frames are tube and cast couplings. The newer frames (in that area) are die formed plate...stamped out all day long. It is formed to look like tube but once it's all exposed, the chincy-ness of it is very visible.
Now, if you don't care about my opinion and would like to do that anyway, I agree with the other posts in regards to the wiring mess. Here's just a part of what you'll have to deal with
About my opinion, please take it just as that...an opinion. If you are dead set on doing this oil tank mod please take EXTRA time to make it look good. That first bike has style points with the Zero Eng springer and Cole Foster tank but it loses me after that. Look on the net for better pics of that bike. The pics you posted are definitely picked through. There's a video of it somewhere and the ugliness is there.
I might be doing a version of this mod on my 08 XLN but it won't be round. It'll be a horse shoe tank and there will be no oil in it. It will hide my battery right in the center and the rest will be for wiring.
For what it's worth, I think your bike is really cool the way it is. Remove the reflectors, make some tiny turn signals, do a chain conversion, lower the rear of that seat a tad and that bike will be a bad ***. Stock oil tank & all.
Now, if you don't care about my opinion and would like to do that anyway, I agree with the other posts in regards to the wiring mess. Here's just a part of what you'll have to deal with
About my opinion, please take it just as that...an opinion. If you are dead set on doing this oil tank mod please take EXTRA time to make it look good. That first bike has style points with the Zero Eng springer and Cole Foster tank but it loses me after that. Look on the net for better pics of that bike. The pics you posted are definitely picked through. There's a video of it somewhere and the ugliness is there.
I might be doing a version of this mod on my 08 XLN but it won't be round. It'll be a horse shoe tank and there will be no oil in it. It will hide my battery right in the center and the rest will be for wiring.
For what it's worth, I think your bike is really cool the way it is. Remove the reflectors, make some tiny turn signals, do a chain conversion, lower the rear of that seat a tad and that bike will be a bad ***. Stock oil tank & all.
Last edited by mreed; 03-23-2012 at 01:36 AM.
#15
03-24-2012, 07:37 AM
If you're asking my opinion, I don't like that mod on 04 & up bikes. I think your eyes are drawn more to the oil tank itself rather than the bike as a whole. You blow the old school look away once you expose that area of the frame. Old school frames are tube and cast couplings. The newer frames (in that area) are die formed plate...stamped out all day long. It is formed to look like tube but once it's all exposed, the chincy-ness of it is very visible.
Now, if you don't care about my opinion and would like to do that anyway, I agree with the other posts in regards to the wiring mess. Here's just a part of what you'll have to deal with
About my opinion, please take it just as that...an opinion. If you are dead set on doing this oil tank mod please take EXTRA time to make it look good. That first bike has style points with the Zero Eng springer and Cole Foster tank but it loses me after that. Look on the net for better pics of that bike. The pics you posted are definitely picked through. There's a video of it somewhere and the ugliness is there.
I might be doing a version of this mod on my 08 XLN but it won't be round. It'll be a horse shoe tank and there will be no oil in it. It will hide my battery right in the center and the rest will be for wiring.
For what it's worth, I think your bike is really cool the way it is. Remove the reflectors, make some tiny turn signals, do a chain conversion, lower the rear of that seat a tad and that bike will be a bad ***. Stock oil tank & all.
Now, if you don't care about my opinion and would like to do that anyway, I agree with the other posts in regards to the wiring mess. Here's just a part of what you'll have to deal with
About my opinion, please take it just as that...an opinion. If you are dead set on doing this oil tank mod please take EXTRA time to make it look good. That first bike has style points with the Zero Eng springer and Cole Foster tank but it loses me after that. Look on the net for better pics of that bike. The pics you posted are definitely picked through. There's a video of it somewhere and the ugliness is there.
I might be doing a version of this mod on my 08 XLN but it won't be round. It'll be a horse shoe tank and there will be no oil in it. It will hide my battery right in the center and the rest will be for wiring.
For what it's worth, I think your bike is really cool the way it is. Remove the reflectors, make some tiny turn signals, do a chain conversion, lower the rear of that seat a tad and that bike will be a bad ***. Stock oil tank & all.
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