a56kuser

well me and my friend was bored so we decided to have a 12 bar welded onto my frenz xr80 dirt bike......
I bought 1inch diameter 4 foot long weldable steel and a steel plate ....anyways i didnt have it drilled and bolted on......... we just straight up welded it....... the bar looked liek this when we first mounted it ( please ignore the dual exhaust, its just a joke and its not there anymore) also apologies for the poor drawing.



with the 12 bar this long we could keep the rear fender, just enough space to snug your foot in the 12 bar.... we parked it up at 12 and welded the bar on from there.... it wasnt true 12oclock....... id say 11:50 ish???? i wanted it to be twelve but it seemed so high already ...... anyways i started 12 in it and at first it was kinda hard to get it all stable .......but after awhile it started getting easy....... i looked at the bar and it looked like this now

so i was just wondering should i leave it like this now??? cause it does feel alot more stable, that or i just got use to the dirt bike.... I wanna know what can i do to reinforce the bar from bending some more........ the bar bended , not the subframe.
Any help would be great thanks

MikeM

1 inch diameter meaning round steel tubing? Replace that with 1 inch by 1/8 inch flat steel, possibly even 1/4 inch if its long and unbraced.

a56kuser

1 inch by 1/8 inch flat steel?????
oh kay......... so how do i ummm....... UN weld this bar off?
and yeah it was round tubing

wangsta6

torch and just make a sub frame from the steel and put braces in there so it wont twist

a56kuser

how does the brace look like

a56kuser

well i got some pics refering to the true 12oclock question

the first one i know im not at true 12 oclock...... this is when the bar wasnt bent... whenever i would scrape it would come back down....


after couple more tries the bar started to bend and this was the height for that

once the bar starts scraping it just stay on the 12 position till i skid to a complete stop...... so that means my bar is at the right height right? or do i gotta bend the bar back a lil more for stability? what do you think. cause even the second picture i dont think its at 12 perfect....... but i dont know if it matters cause this is a tiny lil bike.