Can anyone recommend anyone who could straighten a sub-frame for me in the South? The rear frame (seat unit) on my Daytona track bike is about 1/2 inches out of alignment and it's bothering me!
My track bike sub frame gets straighten with a scaffold bar. Gets it close enough for it not to look buggered.
How do you go about that then? Stick the pole in from on side to the other and get someone to sit on the bike? Just give it a heave?
Exactly! You'll have to take fairing panels and undertray etc off, but even if you can don't remove the subframe itself. They're a bugger to get back on, even if you think you've straightened it. Hardly precision engineering but it can get the worst of the twists out.
How about doing it yourself AliT, It can't be that tricky. A large vise and careful use of a large bar/possibly also a length of timber should enable you to get it pretty straight without having to resort to heating it.
Is it alloy? Bend with your hands and use wood or whatever as a guide for where the ned is, and try not yo snap it...worstcase you'll need to get it repaired which is probably cheaper than £120 to get it straightened Fwiw I'm about to have a crack an ali brazing to repair my subframe. Make a change from wood
Yeah thats become an option now. I thought it would be tricky but it sounds like a bit of gentle persuasion should do it. I think I'l leave it on the bike and get some heat on it with a big pole. I just hope Yuri is free one afternoon!
Yeah you can get a replacement one for about £70 from fleabay.....just a gamble that it'll be as bent as the one thats on there at the moment. I'll give it a go after Almeria. If it goes horribly wrong Ive got all winter to get a replacement then!
