Chopping a Girder!  

 

 

Kids, don't try this at home.

All structural parts of a motorcycle are subjected to stresses during riding.  
If you don't know what you are doing, hire a professional.   

 

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We took a perfectly good girder frontend...

and put our chop saw to work on it.
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Correct alignment is real important
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Welding skills are C R I T I C A L.
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Cutting gussets from plate steel
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Welding the gussets
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Reaming a new axel hole
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Grinding everything smooth
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Looks great!
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Almost ready to go riding!!