Another sweet frame - A Deep Six Cycles / Hugh's HandBuilt Collaboration

My good friend Tom from Deep Six Cycles talked me into a long weekend of chopping, drankin' beer, watching hippies dance in the woods, and eating food from the gas station...   This is just a series of shots to show the KZ650 frame we built from scratch in the late hours of a long weekend...

Cleaned up the stock headtube and fit it in the frame jig... 

We had planned on using a 3/4" axle and Harley rear wheel, so I drew up some axle plates and had them Laser Cut.  Planning ahead is always nice...

We set up some random dimensions, drank beer, eyeballed it some more, and changed everything around until we were happy...  Then we built a quick engine cradle jig...

Bent up some tubing, Tom tacked it all in, and we just kept on rocking...

There was some funky measurements needed to get around the exhaust and the left side of the frame had to be wider than the right, so we took the time to make it all just right... 

Some really cool twin 1" OD downtubes that flow into the lower frame section... 

Then some more tubes were bent, eyeballed and set into place...

A very happy Tom looking over his creation... 

All tacked up, and ready for final welding... 

It was a good weekend!  The kind of thrash sessions that I always enjoyed when I worked on off-road machines right before a big run with a group of friends...  Remember guys, if you aren't having fun and making friends doing this stuff, then you are taking yourself way to seriously....  Take time to stop and smell the grinder dust, and keep on choppin' folks!