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.

So I have decided to make this a shocked bobber, but I'm to try to get as much of the hard tail look as I can.

So i started by removing the rear subframe that is scabbed onto the main portion of the frame, and cut the furthest rear uprights by folowing the line of the backbone ... doesnt sound right but the pics make sense.

so i cut here
... having trouble uploading images, sorry

okay so I havent been bloggin for a while, but I have been choppin. >:-D
so here's the bike stripped










so I took it to work, pulled the air box, and carbs and started cuttin

so im hoping it will turn out something like this





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