Very Cool Video ! Thanks I’m a retired Woodworker and just a few days ago my Mom posted pictures of me in 1974 riding my first Minibike so it got my wheel turning in my brain about Mini bikes hence my next move look on RU-vid for videos I’m not very pretty at Welding but my Dad taught me enough to be Structual at my welds and I have his old Stck Welder from Montgomery Wards of all places ironically that was a Christmas gift to my Dad from his parents and my Grandfather was a Welder by trade untill he retired at 67 years old BTW his Union made him retire because of his age at that time not because he wanted too do so Gramps always did any repairs or builds we needed. As he was a Body and Fender Man originally when everything was still Leaded in the Industry before the Invention of Bondo of course as another present to myFather Grandpa leaded and Black Laquered my Dads 1953 MGTD that was stored in his garage for many years I eventually inherited that car but was forced to sell it due to medical reasons beyond my control as they contributed to my early retirement Im between homes at this point but i do hope my next one will have a shop large enough to do both metal and Woodworking and Im thinking it would be a Hoot. to build a Adult sized “Mini bike “. like we all had in the 70s possibly Motorcycled powered or something neat and maybe even Street Legal ?
Cool! Old school lead work is really neat, im a 90's baby and love to see the processes that built the foundation for what we have today! The ongoing joke about welding is that if you can cant be a great welder, be a great grinder🤣 if you are planning on building something street legal, I would recommend starting out with a frame of something that is already street legal, say a small motorcycle or scooter and chop and modify from there, home built stuff seem to be harder and harder to make street legal anymore. Thanks for checking out the channel! If you have any questions, feel free to ask away👍🏼
You can use stock steering stem bearings instead of cones. You can also harvest the stem from a triple clamp you don't care about to run through them and be very accurate. Cones exist to fit a variety of necks, but you don't have to use cones.
The upright pivots to allow for extended frame sizes for when the rear axle adjustment runs out. Then the all thread pivots to allow for the different steering stem angles, I guess Im missing how my modified frame jig design is wrong?
