Modifying frames?

[Grumph]

Agree re Orange - there were people in the background doing the grunt work. And F- me those bikes must have weighed shitload!


Suppose the question in NZ is if you are using it on the road will you need a engineer to sign off the design and cert welder the sticky stuff?

Back before the regs got tough I did a bit of modification on road frames. Won't even look at it now. Ironic that race stuff which is more highly stressed requires no certification whatsoever....
I seriously doubt if there's anyone formally qualified in NZ to do motorcycle frame structural analysis, and with enough experience to make it meaningful. On the other hand i know of about 5 people who can look at a frame and say yes or no....and none of them are formally qualified. Best welder I know has let his cert lapse...most of the car race teams in ChCh still use him though.

[nodrog:Me]

( can you explain the Gremlin and the Weedkiller.... )

the weedkiller is for your driveway, the gremlin is so I don't get infracted up the arse again for quoting an image.