7aliveatlast7
the bearded hessian
hey all, I was pretty pleased with how these turned out, so I figured I'd share them with the rest of the community here. I've been wanting to use fork shrouds on a build for a while as I really like the timeless, old school look of them. I didn't want to spend the $100+ on a pre fab set however, so I decided to try to make my own.
I used 2.75" steel tube, which was a little too big, so I sectioned it out, squeezed it back closed with hose clamps, and re-welded it for the perfect fit around my fork bottoms. I wanted to make the top cone shape out of the same steel tube, but being 16g steel, it started to seem like it might be a little too thick to work into a cone.
enter in an old set of gr650 exhaust pipes to the rescue. I repurposed them by cutting a section out where the muffler started to flare and welded it to the straight piece of tube that I mentioned earlier. viola, I had fork shrouds. took a little bit of time, but I love how they turned out.
I used 2.75" steel tube, which was a little too big, so I sectioned it out, squeezed it back closed with hose clamps, and re-welded it for the perfect fit around my fork bottoms. I wanted to make the top cone shape out of the same steel tube, but being 16g steel, it started to seem like it might be a little too thick to work into a cone.
enter in an old set of gr650 exhaust pipes to the rescue. I repurposed them by cutting a section out where the muffler started to flare and welded it to the straight piece of tube that I mentioned earlier. viola, I had fork shrouds. took a little bit of time, but I love how they turned out.