As announced last week, this time we will
focus on reconnecting the seattube to the framerails. The idea
is to make something similar to stock, but cleaner haha. I did
not want the 2 plates to wrap around the tubes as far as they
do on a stock frame, where they visually interrupt the line
of the lower framerails. Also the welds on stock frames in that
area are pretty terrible...
Using my fullsize prints as a guide we faricated some nice
curved plates. The lower one can be welded both on the top and
bottom, the upper one only on top but still plenty strong. As
the bike will sit pretty low we made sure nothing sticks out beneath
the frtamerails.
The top plate was cut in half to get it in place, the weld between
the halves was fully cleaned so it was not visible. The rest of
the welds were done with MIG so they would look similar to the
stock welds on old frames. But nicer.
Next we will add the 2 curved tubes near the neck
and after that we will work on the seat area.
