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BUILD FEATURE PROJECT FLATTRACK

PROJECT FLAT

TRACK: PART 2

WORDS & PHOTOS: ODGIE

So with the front end sorted, it was time to start playing with the back.

It’s all going to get a little more radical here, for a variety of reasons

Now it should start to become clearer why I used the Can-Am swinging arm with the
Remember this littler piece of metal from last month? It looks relatively simple, but length of thick-wall tubing in the middle rather than keep the BSA one with the one-piece
it was a right so-and-so to get right. In fact, this is the second one I had to make, but front sleeve. I’m going to convert the frame to a single seat tube. (As it happens, not
as anyone who builds things from scratch knows, sometimes you have to make one dissimilar to a genuine Trackmaster flat-track frame from the States, which makes sense
to find out how not to make it, so to speak. The scalloped ends and the hole in the if you think about it, as they’re both going to be doing the same job.) So this is the start,
middle had to be in exactly the right places, as you’re about to see... and that’s why such a simple bit of tube had to be so accurately constructed.

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