Tail Loop

[rwcfrank]

Not me but here is an option, a little pricey in my opinion.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/260972777081?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

[deeAYEennENNwhy]

before


after


with seat

[verde]

I used a bend from an old set of bars.

Now I know what I've been hanging onto those horribly uncomfortable L bars for, haha. I like the final shape too rather than a constant radius for the whole loop.

[JimmyR]

I just added a loop to my GS1100. Cut off the frame in almost identical place to Danny's above, but my loop is a little longer.

I bought about a metre of 25mm (1") steel tubing which was very close to the 26mm of the bike. You need a bit more than you will end up using to provide leverage when bending. I took mine to a local exhaust fabricator who just happened to be around the block from my local steel shop! I just lobbed in off the street and showed the guy my steel and the shape I needed bent drawn onto a piece of cardboard. I had traced around the back of the seat I am using and it's not a regular semi circle, it's more egg-shaped.

Anyway he just happened to have a 25mm pipe bender and was happy to match the shape for me and it didn't cost a cent. Took him a coupla minutes. I didn't know about the sand trick so mine has a few dents on the inside of the curve but it doesn't matter in my case because it looks fine on the outside and the seat covers the inside from view. Obviously I would prefer it to be perfect but the outside curve is so that will do me.

Then I took it and the frame to my friend who is a welder and he just butt-joined the pieces. I had some steel rod to use inside the tube to strengthen the weld but he said it wasn't needed. He's right, too, because there is next to no weight on the welded section. The bit I sit on is over the existing frame.