Bending a sunlite sissy bar at the bottom?

[Flint70]

Has anyone bent a sissy bar at the bottom backwards like a reverse "L" to look like tailpipes? If so how did you do it. I have a 36 inch one and instead of cutting it off at the bottom I was thinking of bending both sides. I did not want to mess up the them up to much either. Thanks

 

[wheelbender6]

I would think that you need a mandrel bender to reshape your sissy bar. That is how they bend exhaust pipes without collapsing them. However, I have never tried it.

 

[Voyager Al]

conduit bender, but it will give ya a 6 inch radius. Heat it and bend it. Propane torch will get it hot enuf

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

A conduit bender might work.
You might get 90 degrees, but it would take up a lot of the length of the sissy bar.
Perhaps, if you started with a longer one, you might end up OK.

Good luck,
Dr. T

 

[Voyager Al]

1/2 inch? I think its only 5 inch radii. I hardly ever bend 1/2. 3/4 and 1" are my standards. But pretty sure its 5".

 

[sensor]

Don't listen to them(No disrespect intended. It's just being made more complicated than need be). You don't need a bender other than your hands! I did this one in the late 80's(just for proof, a picture!):

Just mount it on a bike, grab the 2 ends and bend them as close to the mounting clamps(the bracket that is on one side of that sissy bar)as you can. Just pull them up to where you want them. It helps to have someone hold a level on them so they come out the same but you can do it by yourself if need be. They're only 1/2" tubing so its really easy to move them :wink:
Hope that helps.

 

[B607]

When bending tubing, if you can find a large spring that just fits over the tube you can bend it however you want without kinking it. Gary