We are always looking for tech articles to run in the mag. I personally love to see how people make things whether I can do it or not. One of the things I love most about choppers is dreaming about what could be, looking at the raw parts and imagining it running down the road. Because we aren't putting together stock bikes we are always trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole. I love to see how people make parts work. Lee is a constant contributor to the mag… Lee and his friends live it all the time and I love seeing what he's up to whether he's camping, road tripping or making shit…. Hope you guys enjoy. Thanks!

Dig up some old risers you've got lying around or get fancy on the lathe and make some cute beveled edges yourself.  Get some material

Find your closest chop saw, angle grinder, or Jim Dugan and cut to length.  I wouldn't suggest 24 inch risers, but maybe that's your gig and your names Gary.

There you have it.

Make some marks on the preemie risers.  Where you want the radi to start/stop... or again, If you're fancy enough, use your lathe, everyone's doing it.  Remember that the blade will cut out material, so make measurements thinking about your "blades".

Cut hoe!

2 ='s 4

We fancy.  Clean em up with whatever you got.  

Precision... 

After cut, throw em on some 1" bar and make them nice and even.  

Clean up the material before you start welding.  Easier now than after there's kibbles and bits welded to each end, so why not?

Bevel the edges to make room for better/cleaner less boogery welds.

Tack them up where you can... vice, vice or vice.  If you don't have a vice, find a vice. 

Bend up your bar stock.  This is where you can color outside of the lines... Bend them up as much or little as you want.

Welded, scotch brited, and clamped, we only lost 3 fingers this go around.  Mocked up like a mug.

If you didn't like or find this useful, don't read it. Especially now that you're all the way through it. Get over it, WE OUT HERE!

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