After receiving a verbal roasting from Mac (no names mentioned) regarding my article on making a ‘Fender’  instead of a ‘mudguard’ I have decided my ‘GAS TANK’ will be called a ‘petroleum enclosure’ to save any further roastings that may occur.

The unit I am using is a 2 gallon (9.09 litre so I don’t get in trouble) from TC Bros , cost me a fortune with shipping and taxes but well worth the money.

I decided early on that one design feature would be a hidden rear mount for the tank as I think it looks really clean this way and shows the bare frame tube so keeping to the minimal style, so the first picture is a removed mount.

I cut this off with a 1mm disc and shaped the leftover metal with a flap wheel.

I made a mounting post from stainless that has an 8mm thread and will weld this to the tank shortly.

Next I made an insert to be welded in to the frame to accept the mounting post.

I found a spare hole that I made years ago that was 16mm at the top and 8.5mm at the bottom so I inserted this in to the frame tube, got it pretty well in the middle as it happens!

Next should have been a picture of the insert welded in to the frame but it has been stolen by the ‘photo pixies’, the welding was simply amazing, some of the best you would have ever seen, it reminds me of a picture of a huge fish I once caught that also had the picture ‘stolen’…….  So this is Fruitshoot on his bestest bike in the world, he goes to bike shows on it every friday night at ‘Pink Punters’ in Milton Keynes….. none of the other Scavengers are invited, not sure why?

Meanwhile, back at the farm I continued with my welding and stuck the threaded boss on to the tank, it went on pretty well, bit tricky to weld around the sides but it looks plenty strong enough.

This is how it looks from the back, imagine it painted, should look pretty tidy.  Next is the front mount when I find some time.