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Definitely cool. I'd love to see some closeups of some of the suspension. Rich

Nice clean lines. This is a nice revision to the original design.:-) Rich

Agreed hobby machinist is a great site. I met some hobby machinists there. They have been patiently getting me thru the learning curve of finding equipment and setting it up... unfortunately older equipment can take some time to work out the kinks... getting there though. That atlas sounds like...

Nice seat and a great tutorial! Thanks rich

I'm a bit bummed today, I finally got the tooling I was waiting for , I finished up a remodeling job... today a overcast and light rain... so a good day to be out in the garage and test my old 1950's south bend mill on some tubing... unfortunately it burnt up the starting cap...they are only 4...

The harbor freight tubing roller comes with 3 dies, 1", 1 1/2" and 2" As a source for material for this discussion shapiro metal supply in st louis mi has 4130 tubing in those dimensions.. 1 1/2" can be had in. 035 thickness, unfortunately 2" is only 083 The roller in the pics above is not hard...

Be careful there, yes you are correct, you can buy dies for either pipe or tubing, and as you mention they are each measured in a different way, but tubing can have an external dimension, and a wall thickness, this is why you see mention of. 065, or. 035 or heavier wall thicknesses you will see...

Very sexy! :-) Rich

Nice design, very nice build. :D Rich

Always good to have you here :D :D Rich

Re: "GULF SWING" BACK WHEEL DONE! Very nice work luke. I would be interested in seeing you make your own hubs. Lots of cool engineering happening on this forum 8) Rich

Beautiful welds, creative frame design, that is gonna be a great looking bike 8) Rich

Awesome bike, excellent job :lol: Rich

Cool looking concept :D Agreed, your tank is nicer than the concepts tank Rich

Thats awesome, and your daughter is adorable 8) Rich

That is a great looking bike! Rich

Re: Slow Motion (aka: Sweet N Low) Ya gotta love free :lol: My notcher broke before i did the first fishmouth :mrgreen: still have the parts here somewhere. Ive heard many others had better luck with it :shock: Good luck with the bike, goodnidea picking up the parts bike, gotta love walmart...

The jd2 dies have 3 critical points to be aware of. ?. 1) 90-180 degree, that one is easy 2) as you pointed out the radius 3) this can be the gotcha one... The gauge of the metal, we want the. 058 gauge dies, the bigger gauges work on motor bike frames and heavy stock builds great, they kink...

The harbor freight tubing roller for the top tube and down tube, the jd2 for the little kink bend on the chain stay and the 180 degree bend as well as the front forks. I have 2 different 1" dies, one gives me a 4" (inside measurement) diameter and the other is around 6" (not positive, i need to...

Would love to see more of this bike 8) Rich