Sastard Swigid Honda

Made it out to the Sastard family farm today for some barn fresh building. Fun times. Always good doin' some building in different shops. Here's a blow by blow of how the Sastards Role.


First things first. Pick the coldest day you can and work where you're outta the wind, but have minimal heat sources (actually it was pretty reasonable once we were at it).

Second, find a donor with some suitable tubing and get at it on the band saw.

Next put some more stock frame on the floor.

Now heat up the remaining frame tubes and drop them down.


After notching the 10 speed bike tubes and dishing suitable cradles out of the frame posts...

...a little more grinding and we're ready for some oxy/acetylene goodness.


I love this shot of Billy. Looks like he's building a bike in the frackin Ukraine or something.

Here's the frame all tacked in place. Rigid struts welded right to the swingarm, to the shortened/lowered seat tubes and braced by a couple tubes that needed to be there to support the engine mounts. Great stance. Very old BSAy kinda shape.

As you can see from the pictures I didn't do sweet FA. Just sat around snapping pictures all day...oh except for the big dookie of brass I piled on POmmie's tank as I tried to braze some holes closed with Sr's torch. What a mess. no pictures.