Nickles are nickles. Add a piece into the welding to strengthen it. Ie. Cut a small steel sleeve from a handle bar and insert it as able you would double cut the tube and make the steel slip just a tad longer. You can actually heavy down your bike. Pro tip add sand into your tubes to strengthen . Drill hole and insert and weld shit. Heavier yes more momentum….yes harder wear on engine….. check going down a gear on your drive 10/9 if you want longevity if you want speed 11/38 might last with the weight
It's worth fixing. Hope you find a fix soon. I'm very happy with my 98cc Coleman with belt drive kit. I won't be jumping off any curbs after seeing this. Thanks for posting.
Thanks foir posting It cracked cause it chinezeum aluminum I have a raleigh Portage bike with an aluminum frame and it outlasted 2 motors with no issues I even bent a tensioner when bump starting and chain jammed no cracks, Don't trust those Chinese aluminum gas-frame bikes. Good thing you can tig weld cause your going to need it. The seatpost cracks at the rear mount and the frame cracks a few inches behind the steer tube and the frame cracks in front of the rear facing dropouts @roger Stafford showed me on 3 gas-frame bikes. check those spots too, Bro.
Funny I just posted and gave you a thumbs up and started reading it. Thanks for the shout out Paul. I don’t know if I’ve got my playlist uploaded to help people. Maybe we should do something on frames as well. Have a great day, brother.
@@engineunknown2 Good to hear. People bolt the motor under tension and crack the seat tube . i have broken 8mm ss studs that way when I first built my bike also causes bad vibration. I do love the look of the gas frame though.
If it was me I would go ahead and beef it up now. It's all apart now and it will never be 100% around the weld again. The tensioner may be a factor in it cracking but I think more than likely it's wat I call the two stroke buzz. Not necessarily an engine balance issue but they do have some buzzy harmonics. JMHO...
Nickles are nickles. Add a piece into the welding to strengthen it. Ie. Cut a small steel sleeve from a handle bar and insert it as able you would double cut the tube and make the steel slip just a tad longer. You can actually heavy down your bike. Pro tip add sand into your tubes to strengthen . Drill hole and insert and weld shit. Heavier yes more momentum….yes harder wear on engine….. check going down a gear on your drive 10/9 if you want longevity if you want speed 11/38 might last with the weight
It's worth fixing. Hope you find a fix soon. I'm very happy with my 98cc Coleman with belt drive kit. I won't be jumping off any curbs after seeing this. Thanks for posting.
Ya a curb jump might be bad
Thanks for the update, would like to see it beefed up! 👍
Coming soon!
Hell yeah bro add some supports n your set nice work bro
Thanks ya I'm going to brace it up
That saves me, wondering about what kind of thing I need to weld aluminum as well brother thank you so so much for sharing and for the tip
Glad to help it's a fun thing to get into
@@engineunknown2 yeah it was hard enough learning and steel on a wire never mind aluminum on tig
Thanks foir posting
It cracked cause it chinezeum aluminum
I have a raleigh Portage bike with an aluminum frame and it outlasted 2 motors with no issues
I even bent a tensioner when bump starting and chain jammed no cracks, Don't trust those Chinese aluminum gas-frame bikes.
Good thing you can tig weld cause your going to need it.
The seatpost cracks at the rear mount and the frame cracks a few inches behind the steer tube and the frame cracks in front of the rear facing dropouts @roger Stafford showed me on 3 gas-frame bikes. check those spots too, Bro.
Ya I have checked the hole frame, and that's the only spot I found
Funny I just posted and gave you a thumbs up and started reading it. Thanks for the shout out Paul. I don’t know if I’ve got my playlist uploaded to help people. Maybe we should do something on frames as well. Have a great day, brother.
@@engineunknown2 Good to hear.
People bolt the motor under tension and crack the seat tube . i have broken 8mm ss studs that way when I first built my bike also causes bad vibration. I do love the look of the gas frame though.
Nice work, brother 👏 💪 👍. Man, I would just add the supports why not right? You will not have to worry about it again. 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks ya im going to brace it all up
@@engineunknown2 hell yeah 😎
If it was me I would go ahead and beef it up now. It's all apart now and it will never be 100% around the weld again. The tensioner may be a factor in it cracking but I think more than likely it's wat I call the two stroke buzz. Not necessarily an engine balance issue but they do have some buzzy harmonics. JMHO...
Ya the weired thing about it is my 2stroke had way less vibration than my 212p