all I have left to do is mount the rear fender, and make my forward controls. more to come soon.....


so with the rear tank mount done I made the front mount, the seat mounts, and mounted the battery box

Then I made a new mount on the frame for the tank.


So the stock rear mount was not going to work so I cut it off and made a new one, basically just a piece of plate with 2 bolts welded to it.


So i fished through craigslist and found a nice sporty tank for $40.

a little cutting and grinding, and voila! a seat pan



so i drew one side to get the curve i wanted, then laid a sheet of paper over it, traced it, and transposed to the other side.


next came the seat.....so I am building this bike on a budget. I work at a golf course and my boss is nice enough to let me use the shop while building. The tools i have for fabrication are a chop saw, die grinders and cutting wheels, angle grinder, O2/acetylene torch, and a wire feed welder. so I take everything I can get. Where am I going with this.... above is a bottom pan from a broken trash receptacle from on a golf course... my new seat >;-)

then i cut some "coins" out of piece of plate and welded them in the holes and smoothed them out.





next it was time to cut the lateral support tubes and clean the frame up.

then I made the mounts for the rear shocks. I started with four pieces of steel 1/8" thick 2x3". clamped all four together and cut them at the same time with the torch and then ground them to the shape i wanted and they would all be equal. welded them into place and attached my rear shocks




so I really wanted to keep the hard tail look but not make my kidneys and back suffer. so I rotated the shocks forward to meet the section of backbone that I have fabbed. i will make the mounts later.

then I put the piece of chromolly inline with the backbone of the main frame





next I cut a piece of 1 1/8" .120 chromolly tubing and notched it to match the frame




so I notched the main portion of the frame

this is done for a reason..... coming soon


so as you may have noticed i left the uprights but they are cut at the same height








heres the pic of it cut off




so i started by cutting the entire sub frame off. the sub frame on this particular sub frame is scabbed onto the main frame here.