How are you guys building your steering heads?
I use whatever iv got :laugh: I built a couple with bearings and a couple with bronze bushings. I just match up a bolt with my bearings or bushings then find a pipe thats strong enough and the right size to fit them in. get that all done and welded on then build the forks. Just dont do it the old way with a bolt in a pipe and nothing else
My NEW Azusa kit is exactly that,a 5/8" bolt through the 3/16" upper and lower "tree's" and through a thick wall chunk of what appears to be DOM tubing.
My ArcticCat project was 1-1/2" tube that looked to be relieved for ball bearings,but as a devotee of overkill,I centered a chunk of .120 wall,1-1/4 DOM inside the neck,and tacked it in,then slid a chunk of .120wall 1" DOM inside that with bronze bushings and a 5/8 bolt. The bushings protrude just above the level of the 1-1/2,so my pivots rest on a full 1" surface and basically a 1" shaft.
My ArcticCat project was 1-1/2" tube that looked to be relieved for ball bearings,but as a devotee of overkill,I centered a chunk of .120 wall,1-1/4 DOM inside the neck,and tacked it in,then slid a chunk of .120wall 1" DOM inside that with bronze bushings and a 5/8 bolt. The bushings protrude just above the level of the 1-1/2,so my pivots rest on a full 1" surface and basically a 1" shaft.
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