Broken Front Frame Support Tab
 

Unfortunately I dropped my bike in the garage. After quickly picking it back up I took it for a short ride and found that the whole front end was bouncing. I concluded that I had broken the small frame tab where the front assembly attaches. Not really angry about it but more frustrated. Also cracked the fork stop tab.

I really wanted to use my new mig welder but after a few practice runs on another piece of cast aluminum I decided it wasn't going to be good enough. Later this week I'll take it to my friends to have it tig welded.

Anyone else broke this tab before?

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I broke the rear ones when a wind storm in New Mexico blew mine over fully loaded with camping gear, 10 years ago. Found a local shop with a spool gun that repaired it and beefed it up a little. Has done fine.

Quite common problem do a search there is another thread about such.

If you need a good front subframe with clear title, I have 1 now, soon to be 2...

This part of the frame doesn’t carry the vin number.

Just welded it up tonight. Going paint and install in the morning.

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Mine does, lost all of my vin plates on the rear subframe, so I added a vin plate to mine so I could title it in my new state....

Nice welding, better than mine...