It's been a while since I've built a custom. One of my New Years resolutions was to make more this year. Here's the first one for 2010. Kind of a hybrid cruiser/mtn bike/custom thingy.
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so far so good. i like. :!:
Nice build. I'm guessing your tig welding it? Usually the only welding that turns the tubing blue just a little. Wish I had one. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Really nice looking bike --
I am interested in how you curved the tubes - I build a few frames my self but the curved tube thing is always a problem since I have no way to do it my self. I normally resort to going around to a local engineering place and getting them to roll the tubes with their large tube roller but this always means the bends are never quite right.
Graeme
I am interested in how you curved the tubes - I build a few frames my self but the curved tube thing is always a problem since I have no way to do it my self. I normally resort to going around to a local engineering place and getting them to roll the tubes with their large tube roller but this always means the bends are never quite right.
Graeme
Thanks guys!
The frame is just mild steel, and yes, it was TIG welded. I don't know why I waited so long to buy one, I love it! The arcing of the tubes was kind of the old fashioned way...at work, I found a decent diameter large tank (at a paper mill) and put one end between an I-beam and walked the other end around the tank. Works really well and comes out the same every time. Too bad International Paper just closed my facility for good. Unemployed and to access to the tanks...LOL!
The frame is just mild steel, and yes, it was TIG welded. I don't know why I waited so long to buy one, I love it! The arcing of the tubes was kind of the old fashioned way...at work, I found a decent diameter large tank (at a paper mill) and put one end between an I-beam and walked the other end around the tank. Works really well and comes out the same every time. Too bad International Paper just closed my facility for good. Unemployed and to access to the tanks...LOL!
I love it. Very nice work.
Guess if you need to build any more bikes you can just buy a paper mill . :lol: Sorry to here about your job. They say when one door closes another one opens. Your skills at frame building may lead you in a different direction. Good luck
