Cage for war!

[monsterzx9]

I am at it again. My snuggie bike was dying a slow painful death, so instead of patching it up I decided to go for a rebuild. I am starting with my cage. If you recall I built my current cage using lightweight square tubing. It was a last min. effort to start riding my new bike. I figured it to last a month, but I would have been happy for a day. After 4 months of beating it to hell trying to learn circles, I am stoked to report that it only has one part in need of repair. I have decided to wipe my mind of any paradigms I may have about cages, and look at it from a different angle. This is what I have come up with...

Most of the cages I see now are super strong very high-tech and for the most part well manufactured. They also cost a shit load of doll hairs. My new cage isn't for the pros that already have everything and an iron man. This cage is for the guy keeps breaking shitty parts. If your outfitting a virgin bike you will need a cage, and, 12 bar, if your a bigger fellow you will also need a sub-cage. I have designed and started fabrication of a steel exo-skeleton. This cage replaces both passenger brackets and pegs. It replaces the rearsets with 1/4" cross braced plate steel. It's main job is that of any cage, to protect the motor and frame. This shares the load of multiple impacts scenarios over an arsenal of mounting points. Not to mention it acts as a sub cage brace that has an integrated 12 bar. I will be posting pics of this build as I go. Tonight I built the right side mounting plate. It uses the swingarm pivot bolt as a mounting point, both rearset bolt holes and both sub-frame holes. Everything will be built from this plate. The subcage and 12 bar will be tied to the cross brace between the rearsets and the plate triangulating the enitre rear half of the bike.

SHITTT!



My phone went dead tonight so no pics today I will be sure to snap some on monday!

[big ben]

is this something that will have multiple bolt points so if one part of the cage gets tweaked you can just replace that section?

[monsterzx9]

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Originally Posted by big ben is this something that will have multiple bolt points so if one part of the cage gets tweaked you can just replace that section?

No. I don't like the idea of a modular cage. It will basically be two halves bolted strategically across the bike and to each other.

[big ben]

pics must be shown...

[monsterzx9]

Okay this is the rough cut of the right side bracket. I have to get a die for my grider to clean the cuts on the inside. Once this cage is complete I will have a machine shop mill out these pieces, so it doesn't look like Fred Flinstone made it.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....91323304&saved

[Atown1101]

im lost as to what that thing does exactly

[monsterzx9]

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Originally Posted by Atown1101 im lost as to what that thing does exactly

That is the starting point for a cage I'm building. I couldn't afford a cage, new rearsets, round bar and, subcage so I'm building them. I decided that if I have to build all my own parts instead of copying an existing cage (not my style), I would design my own. I have studied several of the IMO best parts around. I needed rearsets, so the plate for my cage to frame mount at the S.A. pivot point, could double as steel R.S. brackets. ( I have been rocking my home made rear sets for 2 months now, functional but ugly as hell). On my current rearset brackets I didn't have thick enough steel to make it strong so I used what I had and braced between the brackets behind the shock and over the chain. That bar provided an awesome way to triangulate the passenger peg cross bar and the frame. Unloading some stress from the aluminum subframe mounts. At this point I realized that I was building an exoskeleton and I utilized the subframe bolt holes in the main plate. Stay tuned man.

[monsterzx9]

1 Swing arm pivot bolt
2 Lower rearset bracket mounting hole
3 Upper rearset bracket mounting hole
4 Foot peg hole Foot peg hole
5 Lower subframe mounting hole
6 Rear brake lever pivot mount
7 Upper subframe mounting hole

This bracket is mirrored on the opposite side of the bike.
There will be a cross bar between the foot peg mounting bolts (4)

[M.F. Mall Cop]

Fuck youre going to be adding like 50lbs to your bike in just bracing

[monsterzx9]

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Originally Posted by Adroit707 Fuck youre going to be adding like 50lbs to your bike in just bracing

The jury is still out on the weight thing. I'm not thinking it will be much more heavy than a bike with a 12 bar subcage subbrace and a cage. Im not one of those guys that is super light weight concerned.