It's 52 and going to 36 tonight with frost warnings! I said it before and I'll say it again, I just hates you! 
Beautiful riding country, Mailman! 
Beautiful riding country, Mailman! 
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♫ Well, I'm so tired of crying but I'm out on the road again
I'm on the road again... ♫
I'm on the road again... ♫
know anyone that can help? lol
Well, if you went to the steel place and got a piece of 1/8th plate. If you had a wire welder and a angle grinder. You could clean up the areas, make sure everything was aligned, make gussets and weld them in. Might buy an old bike with title and swap everything over or Bike shops would be expensive. A good, stress good, welding shop might do it for ya if the bike was stripped down so they wouldn't mess up anything. They could assure it was straight, make and weld in the gussets. You could do the clean up and make the gussets and have them weld them in. Kinda tough position.
I have an angle grinder, but my wire welder is gasless and weak lol. I need someone with a TIG welder. I also don't have money for another front bike frame. So I'll have to figure something out. I'll definitely see if I can get some steel plate once I'm able to find someone to help with it.
NM If you had a soda blaster or the like where you could get the metal good and clean, I see places where you might weld it up better. Maybe then a gusset or so. Have to watch the heat on head bearings and bushings. Still would be tough.
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maybe I could grind off one side where a gusset would be, fix the welds on the inside, clean it up. Weld the new, 1/8" gusset on the outside. Then repeat on the other side? If I did one at a time, it should keep the the same correct?
Doing one side at a time would almost certainly warp it out of alignment. You really need to go see a real welder. That's not an area of the frame where an amateur welder should practice improving his skills.
^don't know the size of your town, but every welding shop you see, stop in and talk about what you need done. somebody will know somebody who does motorcycles. then that one will know somebody who is really good. then that guy will know somebody who made a frame from the ground up and used to weld for nasa... then that one will know a guy who used to weld for yamaha... pretty soon you'll have your guy. sounds like you aren't in a rush
Avoid the one who welded for Yamaha - go for the NASA dude!
Hummm, Grimmith, what does the front tire look like. I'm wondering if it looks like it's been on a while? Is it cupped?
Both tires have been on the bike a while, but has only 3 years of minimal riding on it. The tread wear is even and still thick. But the end of this year I'll probably get new tires and have the spokes re trued and what not.
I've been meandering this weekend. Yesterday it was Tom Mix memorial on the Pinal Pioneer Parkway(AZ 79) about 1/2 to Florence from the AZ 77 turnoff. 've been going there since the '90's. You never know who your going to meet there. Sometimes it's just you there and it's really quiet there. Then to Marana Reginal Airport for some fence walking around one hanger. Do you need parts for your F-8 Crusader or A-4 Skyraider? Did some more riding that day but no other pics except of a stop at the Saguaro National Monument West. It was close to a 200mile day. Today was a long ride day too. Off to Fort Huachuca at Sierra Vista. AZ 83 to AZ 82 to AZ90. Filled up the tank and me on base (lunch at Subway). Hmmm Bisbee or Tombstone? Bisbee it is! Off on AZ90 to 80. Passed by the San Pedro river and notice a sign for the San Pedro House. Turned around and went in to check it out, The house was closed due to CV-19. State parks are closed. Kinda. I kept my safe distancing.
Here's the pics.
Here's the pics.
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Wow Rudy! You’ve been burning up the miles lately, your bike must be running really good! Great photos, thanks for sharing!
Went playing tag with the local contingent of advrider inmates...this a.m.
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Trying that chlorine therapy president trump was talking abt...Oh and added the pic..thought that would be nice to see...