Springer seat without fabrication
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So let me get this straight?, You're concerned that a heavy duty steel fork might snap, but you're considering drilling holes into an aluminum frame???
'Interesting'
'Interesting'
How else would you mount a springer seat without welding?
That is what I have heard about those forks, I was just asking. I am still very new to this hobby.
And the holes created for some bolts for a seat aren't huge. I could even get a duel-threaded steel rod to put through to make up for drilling the holes.
Dude, I am looking for genuine help. If I need to weld, I will find someone I know that can.
I don't like aluminum frames... I'm heavy 240# and can snap a steel frame with no engine going 1mph... It's the vibration that aluminum doesn't like and chasing cracks in a frame all the time isn't as bad as steel and steel is more forgiving to weld... My first mo-bike had about 4lbs of mig wire in it after about 4 years of flat beach road use... Aluminum... Gets it's strength from a thin layer of oxidation on the surface... Anodized or polished helps smooth out the surface... Steel is strong all the way through the metal... And don't drill holes anywhere on any frame... Weld in gussets close gaps round and smooth everything out so it's one solid piece... Bicycle is made to flex... A motorized bicycle is made so it doesn't... Or not as much as best you can... A BmX Dirt jump frame in 26" would be the only aluminum frame I would consider if I absolutely had to have aluminum... And it would fold where a chromolly DJ frame would total a Prius 
I only weigh 150 and will never weight more than 190, I am pretty tiny.I don't like aluminum frames... I'm heavy 240# and can snap a steel frame with no engine going 1mph... It's the vibration that aluminum doesn't like and chasing cracks in a frame all the time isn't as bad as steel and steel is more forgiving to weld... My first mo-bike had about 4lbs of mig wire in it after about 4 years of flat beach road use... Aluminum... Gets it's strength from a thin layer of oxidation on the surface... Anodized or polished helps smooth out the surface... Steel is strong all the way through the metal... And don't drill holes anywhere on any frame... Weld in gussets close gaps round and smooth everything out so it's one solid piece... Bicycle is made to flex... A motorized bicycle is made so it doesn't... Or not as much as best you can... A BmX Dirt jump frame in 26" would be the only aluminum frame I would consider if I absolutely had to have aluminum... And it would fold where a chromolly DJ frame would total a Prius
I have seen 212s be put on cdhpower felt fakers that have lasted for years with heavy dudes riding them.
Everything is going to take fabrication... $100 harbor freight welder and grinder cheap hood starter kit... Get some hardware cloth and one of those stainless fire extinguisher you can change with air and water... Drilling and building something like an erector set isn't going to be the way to go... Motorized bicycle will teach you to be a metal fabricators.. don't hire it out just watch U tube
Everything is going to take fabrication... $100 harbor freight welder and grinder cheap hood starter kit... Get some hardware cloth and one of those stainless fire extinguisher you can change with air and water... Drilling and building something like an erector set isn't going to be the way to go... Motorized bicycle will teach you to be a metal fabricators.. don't hire it out just watch U tube
I've seen guys that are tiny... Big and there all getting there frames welded or there swapping frames... Unless there pushing it around there living room for years it's getting worked on constantly...
I've seen guys that are tiny... Big and there all getting there frames welded or there swapping frames... Unless there pushing it around there living room for years it's getting worked on constantly...
I’m not here to discuss the topic. I’m the result for the search you’ll never make. Lol. Run steel.
No bicycle frame is designed for a 212. That’s why you’ll have better luck with steel.
Yeah that’s a good frame there. Zaro use the SEARCH and you’ll find a thread where I built a 212 motorcycle.