ill give you mspaint, simplified, but still enough to get the point across.



i think you get what im saying

 

OK, I gotcha now. Yeah that would work pretty well.

I'm going to simplify it a bit, and weld little triangular pieces on both ends of the tabs, to keep it from flexing.



Also, I tabulated some of the costs of this project so far:

Total spent on the bike so far: $1240.00

Total for new tooling (including bender) $565.00

Wooden table: $40.00 :P

and what I still have to purchase for the bike, with $200 thrown in there for misc stuff I'm not thinking of: $1950.00

That would bring the grand total of this bike to: $3,190.00 Not too bad if it turns out as well as I'm hoping it will.

 

Not really any new news on the bike just yet but........

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not going to lie, I was definitely wanting a boy, but still, you can't beat having a child. Ultrasound shows she's perfectly healthy right now, so that's awesome. Now I just have to wait another 4 months till she pops out!

 

Bike looks ****, congrats on the new baby.

 

Heh, your wife and my cousin are going to have their kids around the same time. Congrats bro, they're getting a girl too

 

not everything turns out as planned

 

Worked a little more on the bike today. To this point the frame had just been tacked together. I welded it up solid today, and in the process I realize my TIG welding skills are sorely lacking in beauty. They're nice n' strong, but not as nice as I was hoping they would turn out. I had been debating using filler to mold the welded areas or just leave the bare welds to powdercoat over, I think this just made the decision for me.

I also built and welded up the seat pedestal, this will have a square plate welded to it, with four holes, and the seat pan will have four holes in it, with nuts welded to the backside, so it will bolt right up.

Not a whole lot of looks progress, but stuff that needed to be done






thanks for looking!
Sky

 

lets see your welds!

 

I'm too embarrassed to post a close up....

 

Hahaah I know what you mean I suck it welding tig to.