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Old 12-07-2017, 06:14 AM
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Sorry you're having a crap year. Though the motorcycling must be fun. I haven't built a wireframe buck, but am in the process of planning one. I was going to use a ring roller to get nice even constant radius curves. I am working from coordinates measured from a car, so would draw the required shape on paper, then bend the rod and lay it on the paper till it matched the drawn profile. I was thinking that bending over the knee, or similar would be hard to keep a constant radius on a large sweep.

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Dave
Thanks Dave - yes the 749 is a pile of fun, as is the gang of geriatric reprobates that I have joined. Trouble with this one is that we don't have an existing shape to copy and some of the shapes we need for the front end are different to all of the original factory ones because of the wheel diameter we are using. Once I get started I'll post some pictures of the good the bad and the ugly results.
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