I'd Give My Left Arm...

...for a fuel tank? No
But as I'm waiting for my 'project' tank to show up from an eBay buy I managed to clumsily do(missed the end of the auction, so had to message the guy, which luckily he was great about, and did the deal with good humor)...I'll post about how I got to this point:

For the last few years I've been wanting to build a "cafe racer" and started looking for a 1970ish BMW which I thought would make my ideal project bike(if it weren't for the $3000+ entry fee) until one day last December someone told me where "an old cafe racer bike that I could have cheap" was sitting, saying "you can't miss it, you can still see the big orange sun painted on the side thru all the dust"....seemed strange enough to be right up my ally
...anyway, I bought that bike, but it wasn't really what I had in mind at all, more beyond what I was after, as it turned out to be a "real racer"(or racer clone for the street) a 1991 GSXR750.. I thought I might still try to 'cafe' it alittle and make it a naked bike, but ended up just doing basic; new tires, chain, sprockets, plugs, oil, etc and putting around 500miles on it each month(almost 4,000miles so far) and loving the paint scheme just how it is
...but it's a real beast to ride, especially slow(it's very fast and loves to run right past the 'ton' in a blink and keep on going) so I kept looking for my cafe project bike:
When I came across a Virago, which I had seen some cool cafes done out of...but this Yamaha VX535 turned out to be such an easy ride I just ended up leaving it alone and using it for a 'town bike'

while still looking for my cafe build, I was taking the GSXR on long rides(300~500mile day trips with a buddy hunting down curvy roads)...and then about 8 weeks ago I was doing an innocent U turn at 2mph and slid right off the road on some sand..."bam" the bike went down on its side so fast I didn't even have time to take a foot of the peg...after standing the bike back up, riding for another 20 min. or so and stopping for lunch to get out of the oncoming rain..yup that pain was getting worse, too bad to even pull the clutch in to be able to ride home, and I had to admit that my arm was broken

seemingly to test my will and passion, suddenly everything started happening...and I had my(this) project bike...as well as a new work bench fell into my lap, spurring me to do a complete garage makeover struggling with the broken arm....