Motorcycle Frame Tubing

Motorcycle Frames Part 1 of 5.

Motorcycle frame tubing. They are Chromemoly DOM and ERW. Tube you can use the better it looks but it seems the popular thing today is to use the largest dia. ERW Electric Resistance Welded.

The material is an essential quality of the frame. This tubing is the same as we use on our XS650 CB750 and universal weld on hardtails. Motorcycle Frame Tubing and Building A Motorcycle.

15 from 220. A motorcycle frame is a motorcycles core structure. The tube is created from a sheet of mild steel and then its rolled up.

At the front of the frame is found the steering head tube that holds the pivoting front fork while at the rear there is a pivot point for the swingarm suspension motion. For small engines with not a tremendous amount of horse power a 1 x 18 mild steel ERW tube should be fine. 14 gauge would be better if thats the closest youve got as the standard frame tubing is 16mm wall I dont want to be blowing it away by migging thick to thin IYSWIM.

Motorcycle frames are made with both ERW tubing and DOM tubing. For a single downtube or backbone something around 125 to 15 works well. This video shows the various steps of painting a motorcycle frame which include stripping off the old paint applying primer and applying the final coats.

I think the smaller dia. The design fundamentally remains the same for both models they will be different in length for sure but thats a pretty obvious difference. This type of tubing is basically the same as the Electric Resistance Welded tubing except.