Zoöid Third Times a Charm CB175

[Texasstar]

We learned to use the Jd3 tubing bender

 

[Texasstar]

Zoöid Third Times a Charm CB175

https://vimeo.com/150455381
Brian Hobbs showing us the tricks of the Jd3 tubing bender and he has fine taste in music!


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[Texasstar]

So our friend Brian Hobbs of Hobbsracecraft came up with this idea 20 years ago and has had his portable band saw mounted not only vertically but on a receiver hitch (bottom left pic) he has receivers on all four corners of his table) so we stole that idea like his ours is hooked up to a foot switch.

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Zoöid Third Times a Charm CB175

now for some grinding and filing

 

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Grind

File

Progress

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[Texasstar]

Zeke will never forget this frame...Fuller made almost every weld a puzzle.

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[Texasstar]

Gentlemen 3 years ago we started this journey together.

 

[Texasstar]

Zeke and Zoöid age 12...3 bikes 3years...thank you!

 

[Texasstar]

This weekends progress. We welded a plate to the rear set mounting tubes so we could take ye old hole saw to it.

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[focusinprogress]

very cool lines coming together. Kid's blessed with direction and vision....look forward to more.

 

[Texasstar]

very cool lines coming together. Kid's blessed with direction and vision....look forward to more.

thank you focusinprogress

 

[crazypj]

...as long as he doesn't 'do a Rocan' when he gets to 14~15 things will go really well ( just the girls, not thew other stuff )

 

[Quixotay]

Thai pistons arrive?

 

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Thai pistons arrive?

not yet!

 

[DohcBikes]

Not often am I humbled but its even more significant when its a preteen that does it. That frame is the stuff of miracles.

 

[simo]

That bikes going to look amazing when its done.

 

[Weasel]

Outstanding!

 

[Texasstar]

Thanks y'all we are working on the tank now. We trimmed the tunnel to fit. Zeke welded in the petcock bung from the inside. One of the little tricks we learned from Brian Hobbs was to turn down the bung from bungking and put a flange on it.

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We started tacking up the tunnel alternating side to side so not to put too much heat into the tank.

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We also aligned the tail. Learning how to handle the heat is one of the biggest lessons we are learning. Brian Hobbs said we needed to practice micro welding with stainless. Just put enough heat to get the metal to flow and now more.

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