Choosing a fuel tank for your Cafe Racer isn’t exactly an easy task. There’s a lot of variables to consider just on the visual side of things. Will it fit my frame properly? Is it too long or too short? And that’s just aesthetics. When you get into the real nuts and bolts of it you need to begin asking yourself questions like: Did the manufacturer make any provisions to make universal mounting easy? How thick is the fiberglass they use? Do they have any way to combat against the Ethanol that’s in 95% of the fuel sold at service stations today?
Some of you might be saying: “Wow, I never really thought about it like that.” And that’s okay, because as always The Wing’d Piston has your back and we’ve done all the research and real world testing for you. Please welcome Legendary Motorcycles Dime City’s Boutique Vendor of the month to the stage. They’re one of our newest partners and are supplying top-shelf quality fiberglass fuel tanks and seats for your Cafe Racer.
[Legendary Motorcycles "Dunstall" Cafe Racer fuel tank shown on a Shadow 800 custom built by Dime City.]
As with everything else we sell at Dime City Cycles we take great pride in putting all products we offer through rigerous testing prior to offering them to our customers. We use them on our own bikes, get feedback from other exiting customers and checkout out partners operations with a fine tooth comb that would make even CSI question the level of dedication they have to finding what they’e looking for.
Legendary Motorcycles founders Dave and Cheryl Ashenbrener are not only two of the nicest people you’ll meet with a passion for motorcycles, they also have a mind for business and customer service. Just like Dime City. Having built Legendary Motorcycles on the backbone of an already successful plastics and glass forming business with large scale corporate and government clients they understand the importance of quality control measures and making sure they deliver the best possible products they can to their customers.
[Dunstall tank shown with aviation style fuel cap.]
In addition to those key quality facets to their business, when it comes down to the actual products they’re top shelf too. In the photo below you can see the actual thickness of the pieces that make up the tanks. At almost 1/4″ thick they’re guarantee to give you a long life and god forbid you ever do take a spill, your chances of the tank surviving are ten-fold better than many of the other options available that are paper thin.
In addition to building their tanks with some serious meat, they also have a proprietary method to ensure proper bonding at the seams, which is key when building tanks. The process is unparalleled in the industry and guarantees you’re not ever going to have a tank split and leak fuel all over a hot engine. Makes you feel pretty good, right? Yeah, we thought so too.
All of their tanks user high quality NPT fittings for petcocks which work with everything from inexpensive Emgo version to high quality Pingel units. They also offer both the aviation style cap shown above or the traditional Monza style flip-up cap shown below on the Lyta tank.
As for their seats, they’re built to the same durable and high quality standards. To kick it up a notch they even offer high quality injection modeld race style cushions, how great is that? But more on those in their next review!
If you’re building a Cafe Racer and you want to go with a vintage style race tank in our mind the choice is clear. Legendary Motorcycles. We use ‘em on our builds and so should you!
Checkout their Boutique Vendor section here: http://www.dimecitycycles.com/legendary
