| It would seem to me that over the past four | | | | custom fab and paint shops but all carried pre |
| years and with the advent of lame bike shows on | | | | assembled bikes. At one shop I noticed a sign that |
| TV, that every one now is a professional bike | | | | charged ninety dollars per hour for sheet metal |
| builder. Here in Mass I can remember having to | | | | work yet they had no equipment what so ever |
| drive hours from my home to get the smallest | | | | to bend or shape the smallest piece. After talking |
| parts. Now its a simple matter of walking or | | | | to the owner he had mentioned to me that he |
| driving twenty minutes to find a local shop. About | | | | could build me a gas tank for 2,800 but would |
| a week ago I spent a day traveling to several | | | | take 6 to 8 weeks for delivery from their "out |
| bike shops in the area.These shops claimed to be | | | | source tank builder". |