Please help me out
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Please help me out
hey guys and gals,
I am really love motorcycles and my dad has a 2003 road king...i can't afford one on my college budge so i decide to make one with aalot of help from plans online i found at http://64.172.168.34/neatstuff/old_s...pper_frame.htm.... i am goign to college to become a welding enginner so the welding skills are there just not the knowledge that ,most of you have from being around it. I am really curious to what you think of those plans if anyone could take the time and look them over. I am curious what I should bend i believe its called the wishbones at ? I am a good 6'6' and about 250 would this be a comfortable ride for me? I don't have much riding expierence but I think in my oppion when u make soemthing you definately apprecaite it alot more so thats what I plan on any comments good and bad all welcome I appreciate your help and sorry if this the wrong spot for this
I am really love motorcycles and my dad has a 2003 road king...i can't afford one on my college budge so i decide to make one with aalot of help from plans online i found at http://64.172.168.34/neatstuff/old_s...pper_frame.htm.... i am goign to college to become a welding enginner so the welding skills are there just not the knowledge that ,most of you have from being around it. I am really curious to what you think of those plans if anyone could take the time and look them over. I am curious what I should bend i believe its called the wishbones at ? I am a good 6'6' and about 250 would this be a comfortable ride for me? I don't have much riding expierence but I think in my oppion when u make soemthing you definately apprecaite it alot more so thats what I plan on any comments good and bad all welcome I appreciate your help and sorry if this the wrong spot for this
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Well bro.. I know a guy that is somewhat in your same set up...
Here it is in a nutshell... If you have access to a good TIG machine, a bender and also get some good jig plans, then go for it.. trouble is my buddy did not have any of this.. So here is what went down..
Tubing for the frame - $ 120.00
Bender from JD Squared - $300.00
Tube notcher - $ 200.00
Metal for frame Jig - $ 150.00
The frame kit (steering neck, control mounts, axle blocks) $250.00
(he paid for the official frame / jig plans) $150.00
Having me to weld it $250.00 (smoking deal)
All that is $1420.00 which is $670.00 more then what Paugho and Santee sell that same frame for retail...
I can say this, if your 6'6" you need some serious strech on that frame.. I am 6' and my chopper is 8 up, 6 out and 12 over, with a 42* rake and I have drag bars on a 10" pull back riser... Plus not to rain on your parade but depending on where you live it might be a hassle getting it registered...
If you want to talk more in depth about it hit me at :
tattooguy69@hotmail.com
-Tat
Here it is in a nutshell... If you have access to a good TIG machine, a bender and also get some good jig plans, then go for it.. trouble is my buddy did not have any of this.. So here is what went down..
Tubing for the frame - $ 120.00
Bender from JD Squared - $300.00
Tube notcher - $ 200.00
Metal for frame Jig - $ 150.00
The frame kit (steering neck, control mounts, axle blocks) $250.00
(he paid for the official frame / jig plans) $150.00
Having me to weld it $250.00 (smoking deal)
All that is $1420.00 which is $670.00 more then what Paugho and Santee sell that same frame for retail...
I can say this, if your 6'6" you need some serious strech on that frame.. I am 6' and my chopper is 8 up, 6 out and 12 over, with a 42* rake and I have drag bars on a 10" pull back riser... Plus not to rain on your parade but depending on where you live it might be a hassle getting it registered...
If you want to talk more in depth about it hit me at :
tattooguy69@hotmail.com
-Tat
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RE: Please help me out
This wont help you any, but I've been trying to find some plans for a chopper frame and this is exactly what I've been needing. I am a welder and I have access to a tig, as well as a mig welder, plasma torch, accetilene torch and I can probably locate a pipe bender pretty easy. I can also get the materials from my job at a good cost (and probably cob on to some free stuff as well!) Thanks for posting that link man.
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sure thing guy... let me know if I can help out more.. I have had alot of experience with this stuff.. .. plus, when it gets time for the hard to make stuff(for some people) like rear axle blocks, forward control mounts, motor mounts and so on let me know.. I know some people who can help out...
what kind of welding do you do at work? Where I work we have to do MIG, TIG, Stick, Pulse, Orbital, Machine, various metals.. man we do it all... I love it...
what kind of welding do you do at work? Where I work we have to do MIG, TIG, Stick, Pulse, Orbital, Machine, various metals.. man we do it all... I love it...
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we just do mig and tig. Use the mig welder most the time, and I use the Tig on aluminum. I work for a company that manufactures radars , in car camera systems for the Po Po, and radar trailers. I weld up all the trailer frames and parts. These are those annoying trailers you see on the sides of roads and highways that flash your speed back to you. As if we didnt know we were speeding! Anyways, I got access to most of the machinery, mills, welders, torches. Hell I might try getting started this summer. Its something I have always wanted to do. I think building your own bike is one of those things not too many people can say they ever did in thier lifetime. I want to be one of em'!
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