Spoked wheel and cafe conversion of 2002 Lemans

[al_roethlisberger]

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 

[al_roethlisberger]

And here are some photos of the bike as he continued to transform the Lemans into his vision of a cafe-styled retro bike 

[al_roethlisberger]

More detailed photos of the fairing.

[al_roethlisberger]

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

 

 

 

[al_roethlisberger]

Photos of the custom seat.

 

 

[footgoose]

love it

[ScuRoo]

Noice!

Shoe’s interesting 

[audiomick]

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

[bbolesaz]

I would be in for a tank build.

[audiomick]

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.