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Kick Ass Bonneville seat bolts

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:50 am
by bonnevillebilly
Some of you might remember the acorn nuts I welded to the stock bolts a few years back.
They were cool but they still were a pain to remove. I wanted them a little longer.
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While looking for some thing cool to extend them I come across a nice piece of stainless steel chain and then I went Hmmmmm????
So over to the welding bench I went.
I tack welded each link 2 places and rotated the end links 90 degs.
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Then went to work on polishing them up real nice.

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Lets take a look at them in the sun light...... oh yeah they are looking nice and shinny
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Now to cut the chain to length and cut the rod & acorn nut off the stock bolts.
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And weld the new shinny chain to the stock bolts.
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So whatdayathink I think they look kickass.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:07 am
by Rockers CT
Kick ASS.. Man you so cool!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:17 pm
by bennybmn
Dude that's awesome. You're truly an artist!! I know who to call if I need some weldin ;)

PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:42 pm
by mark
Nice work, Billy!

--mark

PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:53 pm
by schuitz
hot piss. those are cool.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:59 pm
by schuitz
hey billy, broke 51,000km on the 2001 scarlet/silver bonnie on our way back from NH last week. I know, I know, only 31,000 miles, and they're not all mine, but hey. It felt like a milestone (well, the 50k felt like the milestone, I took a photo, near Lebanon NH). Maybe I'll catch up next year.

New sprockets and chain, and the valves are a bit loose, but other than that, the bike's been great.

In homage to your ultra-bad baffle-challenged stock pipes, I knocked another set out of mine. See what you've done?