Late last summer Chris Rudy, AHRMA racer from California, contacted me about making KR tanks. He said no company makes a KR tank with anti-ethanol properties. He knew that I offered tanks with X resin which is impervious to alcohol in fuel.

Chris had an orange tank (see photos at right - notice the DOA bubbles in the side) that had been terminally consumed by ethanol and was no longer a viable tank. It became the mule for the tank I am building. We made a deal which I have done with others. Chris supplied the clapped out KR tank which is sacrificed to make the new one. When I am done Chris gets a brand new tank and I am able to sell the best looking KR tank anywhere which won't DOA if ethanol is used in it. (For safety I use non-ethanol gas in all my glass tanks just for that measure of safety).

This is the rare 1980 style XR tank

Over the last five or so years, I have secretly been making exact reproductions of all the Harley XR race tanks and fenders. There may be a few companies making this stuff but the quality is not even close to these that I make. I have been marketing these through John Steel in Chagrin Falls, Ohio and he is my exclusive agent-I can't sell them direct on my own-they have to come from John. He is extremely fussy about product authenticity and quality-that's how I know I make the best XR stuff in the country.

New 3rd generation design. Lower price. And now a rear fender

These are the only dedicated ice fenders built just for us nutty ice riders. The front 'fork capture pockets' have been lengthened so they'll fit any bike with upside down or conventional forks. The pockets are intended to stop against the sliders/forks if the mount straps break. This is so the fender won't roll under the wheel and the bike dashes your brains out. Do I guarantee this-No, some odd thing could happen and you die anyway.

Both fenders come in white because you are going to paint them. Some of you will slap them on in white because you don't care.

When Pat Orman (Calamus, IA) builds vintage XL350 Honda engines into over 400cc hot rods, he insists that owners use big 38mm Mikuni round slide carbs for raging maximum horsepower. Only problem with that idea is the needle required (the 6CF1) is no longer available. Pat has a small stash he but he is husbanding them like pirate's gold.