Hardtail 550t

[blmiller8]

I got a seccond opinion from my friends dad he's going to fix it and make it road worthy sorry I didn mean to doubt anyone I thought I could trust my welder he did use some thick steel pipes though.

[Splittie]

Have you seen the axle plates that are sold to replace your stock ones? I think they look much better than the stock ones. If you have someone knowledgeable they may be able to cut a pair out for you and weld them right in where your lower and upper tubing are supposed to meet at the rear axle.
Just wondering, have you went to www.thechopperunderground.com yet?
TONS of info on what you're project needs!!!
Their moto is "Chop what you got"

[Hammered]

Have you seen the axle plates that are sold to replace your stock ones? I think they look much better than the stock ones. If you have someone knowledgeable they may be able to cut a pair out for you and weld them right in where your lower and upper tubing are supposed to meet at the rear axle.
Just wondering, have you went to www.thechopperunderground.com yet?
TONS of info on what you're project needs!!!
Their moto is "Chop what you got"

Yup. Come on over. Im in the middle of a swing arm chop of a 80 750 myself. Lots of friendly guys with decades of chopping under their belts.

[blmiller8]

I picked up like $400 in parts yesterday. I was just playing around with it untill we take it up to my friends dads house to get it done.

[drphilgood]

Hey bud what kinda tubing did he use?Hopefully not just black iron pipe.Black pipe cannot handle the stress that a hardtail endures.Please use dom tubing.Im also a member at CU.U will get answers to all the questions you may have.

[atb1998]

Chop job

I have to agree with a few others here. Tear that rear end off and start over. Your wheel mounts are too far back from the vee of the rear of the frame. Your hardtail weld on isn't gusseted properly. the lower part of the hard tail needs to be welded to the bottom of the frame under the motor. You need to cut further up the frame right behind the motor. Do away with the bracing there and go from that point. Build a new veritical brace to tie back bone , hardtail and lower frame together properly. Note where we started with the new part of the frame. have pic posted in show you custom bike thread

[blmiller8]

Fially made it up to my friends bike shop in north Carolina. He didn't like the rear end so we started all over again this time we are starting at the backbone and under the engine. We cut all of the metal yesterday and tacked it in place I will post some pics soon.

[blmiller8]

Here is the final of the bike still have a fuew things to finish up. I would have posted progress pics but I dont know how to post full size pictures on this site. We finished today but after finishing wiring and trying to start the bike we realized that the band new ignition from the store didnt work. We did get the bike started and it souns awsome. I will post more pics of how we did the frame if anyone wants to see them. I can also show the wiring if anyone wants. We ended up just cutting the stock harness out of the bike and starting new. WOW that was quite a project from parts in a box to a complete bike in 4days. We did all of the work at my friends shop in North Carolina Combat Cycles.

[briyenkieth]

how bout a profile shot.

[Nessism]

Check this link on how to post photos... http://members.dslextreme.com/users/...t_pictures.pdf

[briyenkieth]

front fender needs something. Trimmed down or thrown away maybe. Otherwise, that's more like it, I was worried about you for a minute. LOL Four days is amazing! Definitly post pics of the frame. Oh and congrats. I know the feeling I got mine running today.

[blmiller8]

front fender needs something. Trimmed down or thrown away maybe. Otherwise, that's more like it, I was worried about you for a minute. LOL Four days is amazing! Definitly post pics of the frame. Oh and congrats. I know the feeling I got mine running today.

Thanks for the vote of confidence man seems like all I have gotten with this bike is you cant do that responses lately.

[blmiller8]

Here is a pic of the bare frame

[blmiller8]

We finished wiring the ignition up today you can start it from the key and kill it from the key now.

[briyenkieth]

rode it yet?