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Edgar Senior Member Offline Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light? Posts: 353 San Diego	Help with hardtail struts 04/25/11 at 02:50:35 I want to make some hardtailed struts, what kind of metal can I use for this? Anything I can find at lowes/home depot?
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: Help with hardtail struts Reply #1 - 04/25/11 at 05:38:32 I think mine are overkill.I used 1" solid round bar.Probably depends on how much you weigh.
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Re: Help with hardtail struts
Reply #2 - 04/25/11 at 14:30:49

you can easily find what you need at lowes for about $12 If I remember correctly. just get some 1" x 1/4" x 3' piece of steel! All you need is a angle grinder and a drill and you are in business. Just make sure your lengths and holes are exact. That can end up breaking bolts do to uneven stress. If you weight more than 200 I might go as thick as 1/2". Thats just me though. With the bike as light as it is, you should be fine with 1/4"! If you want to go all out, you can weld them in place.... but I like to leave my options open.

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EJID Serious Thumper Offline Work to ride and ride to work. Posts: 1536 Pocatello, ID Gender:	Re: Help with hardtail struts Reply #3 - 04/25/11 at 15:40:16 These were on my bike when I bought it and have since been sold to another member here, but from old messages I believe they were about 9" eye to eye & the struts total length is about 10 1/4", made of what appears to be 1/2" steel. Good Luck!
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Re: Help with hardtail struts
Reply #4 - 04/25/11 at 16:08:24

Chopped wrote on 04/25/11 at 14:30:49:

you can easily find what you need at lowes for about $12 If I remember correctly. just get some 1" x 1/4" x 3' piece of steel! All you need is a angle grinder and a drill and you are in business. Just make sure your lengths and holes are exact. That can end up breaking bolts do to uneven stress. If you weight more than 200 I might go as thick as 1/2". Thats just me though. With the bike as light as it is, you should be fine with 1/4"! If you want to go all out, you can weld them in place.... but I like to leave my options open.

Thanks! That's what I wanted to know. I like the ones ejid had on his but the guy on eBay sells them for $70! Great quality I'm sure, but I'd rather not spend that unless I absolutely can't make them myself

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Edgar Senior Member Offline Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light? Posts: 353 San Diego	Re: Help with hardtail struts Reply #5 - 04/25/11 at 17:37:25 Demin, have you ever had problems running the hardtail struts? Any damge at all to the bike?
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: Help with hardtail struts Reply #6 - 04/26/11 at 05:21:01 No,not at all.And I'm pretty big too.I'm around 270.I ride hard too.
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