Been wanting to make something that wasn't too fancy, cut corners, crusty and just used whatever was laying around. Got dicked over on a deal on a frame, long story, so decided to chop up the 1971 frame and use Softail axle plates to hardtail it and go from there. Tossed together a motor/trans with junk that's accumulated from left over trades and swapping. Keep joking how I'm not going to spend any money at all, so far haven't really spent much!
So the angles just don't line up with the front of the frame. There's right way and the cheating way, I decided to cheat cause this is the lazy low buck build. Just left the angles alone, the top rails will just twist a little near the seat post. The top rails will be 1" bar and bottoms 1-1/8" sorta like stock hardtail.
My way of getting around the trans support bar thingy, add the threaded rear bung back in later.
you can see it needs a bit of offset cope to get it to line back up.
Bottom bends are pretty easy, just matched the angle on the axle. Gonna be a disc brake bike so skipped the compound bends on the chain side, scooted it out a tiny bit to compensate.
You can kinda see the twisting up of the top rails, but I think it's acceptable for what we're going for here. Cheap, fast.
I can dig it, about $45 in metal and some elbow grease.
So the angles just don't line up with the front of the frame. There's right way and the cheating way, I decided to cheat cause this is the lazy low buck build. Just left the angles alone, the top rails will just twist a little near the seat post. The top rails will be 1" bar and bottoms 1-1/8" sorta like stock hardtail.
My way of getting around the trans support bar thingy, add the threaded rear bung back in later.
you can see it needs a bit of offset cope to get it to line back up.
Bottom bends are pretty easy, just matched the angle on the axle. Gonna be a disc brake bike so skipped the compound bends on the chain side, scooted it out a tiny bit to compensate.
You can kinda see the twisting up of the top rails, but I think it's acceptable for what we're going for here. Cheap, fast.
I can dig it, about $45 in metal and some elbow grease.