Started rearset mounts

Finally got around to starting the rearset mounts. My original plan was to use the passenger peg mounts and re-purpose them by first removing the studs and bracket then weld on new bungs for my pegs.

This however failed miserably... I spent way too long trying to cut all the welds cleanly to remove the brackets in attempt to clean up the look but I dug into the tubing too much. So I cut them off, cleaned up the frame and moved onto making my own mounts.

I had bought 7/8" DOM tubing for this anyway as well as the threaded bungs seen above on the threaded rod. The idea here is that the pegs are tapped for 3/8"-16 so I bought threaded bungs of the same pitch so I can use threaded rod to help keep them parallel when I weld them to the frame. Then I'll use a 3/8" drill to remove the threads.

To start the new mounts, I first decided on position by sitting on the bike a few times with boards on the ground to find where I liked to position my feet. I measured from there to the frame and then cut the tubing to length. I also chose to have the bungs slightly offset outwards from the frame. To do this symmetrically I needed some kind of welding jig. I cut a small length of threaded rod, drilled a hole in my cheapo work table, and bolted the rod through the table. The nut on top will provide the offset I was looking for. With a clamped piece of scrap angle steel into the table, I threaded the bung onto the rod and tediously tapered the tubing to fit onto the bung nicely.

No progress pics, but from here I tack welded the ends of the tubing onto the angle steel, then tacked onto the bung. Finish welded and some grinding later, and you see the right side is done below.

I repeated the same process and made the left one. Looks like my jig did its job pretty well. Tomorrow I'll fit and weld them to the frame using the threaded rod to keep them even with each other.