I’m in Portsmouth – not too far from you – about 2 hours. There is a guy about five minutes from me that does custom metal work out of his garage. He loves tricking out motorcycles. He has done a lot to my 04′ Raider. I can ride by there and let him look at mine and see what he thinks as far as fabbing s sissy bar. He has done several sissy bars on some show bikes in our area. I can check with him and hook you guys up if you’re interested.

There is a guy near me that is amazing with metal – and very reasonable. He has done some work on my 04′ Raider. He does lots of custom metal work for an extremely good cost. I am on the east coast. Where are you located?

I have an 04′ Raider and had he exact same problem. I had the tank repaired several times but eventually it would leak again. I recently lowered and raked the bike out a bit farther. When I did, I had the tank “customed” to fit the new lines. When the tank was cut open to be widened, there was junk all in it.