al_roethlisberger Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 The owner of this 2002 Lemans is located here in NC, and posts in the MGNOC Facebook group, but isn't a member here. He gave me permission to repost the photos of his 2 year project to rework the 2002 into his cafe-style retro vision. Here is a link to the Facebook post:https://www.facebook.com/groups/mgnoc/permalink/10162477829008709/ I've asked him a few questions about the major components you'll see such as the wire wheels, metal (aluminum?) tank, and fairing. So far he's been able to share the following about the wheels... he had them built, in this case from a 1999 California's rims ensuring they were wheels with the dual disc brakes, removed the hubs and had the hubs powder coated, had a custom rear axle spacer made, and then Buchanan's Spoke & Rim (https://www.buchananspokes.com/) laced the hubs to Excel rims for about $800USD. Below is the "before" photo, then the bike with its new wire wheels 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_roethlisberger Posted April 29, 2023 Author Share Posted April 29, 2023 And here are some photos of the bike as he continued to transform the Lemans into his vision of a cafe-styled retro bike 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_roethlisberger Posted April 29, 2023 Author Share Posted April 29, 2023 More detailed photos of the fairing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_roethlisberger Posted April 29, 2023 Author Share Posted April 29, 2023 Photos of the tank and filler. The tank was made by the following, cost $1500 The owner of this bike is going to have another tank made, and said it would be nice if enough owners banded together to see if a discount could be negotiated if enough buyers committed. https://www.facebook.com/friedhelm.lammers 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_roethlisberger Posted April 29, 2023 Author Share Posted April 29, 2023 Photos of the custom seat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footgoose Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScuRoo Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 Noice! Shoe’s interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiomick Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 6 hours ago, al_roethlisberger said: The tank was made by the following,... ...Friedhelm Lammers That's interesting. I thougt I read several years ago that they had ceased making custom tanks. Apparently not. Here's the site, I believe. Al's Facebook link wouldn't let me in without signing up. (Not a chance of that happening...) https://www.alu-tanks.de/39994.html all in German, and no English option, but there is contact info there under "Kontakt": https://www.alu-tanks.de/41368.html 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbolesaz Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 I would be in for a tank build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiomick Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 I have nothing to do with them, so I can't help. Send them an e-mail and see if they respond. I expect that they can deal with english, but to be on the safe side, try using this translater: https://www.deepl.com/translator in my experience, it delivers much more satisfactory results than the google thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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