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up sizing my mid size (taller and longer and better)
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Posted by: Rootar

here she is before i started to chop her up

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atleast i didnt get carried away, the top half of the ramp was fine the bottom half needed to be redone so off with the front half of the bottom rails, then i could cut notches in the back of the curved rail and "unbend" it into a smoother bigger radius. due to this it needed to be 13 inches taller for the new radius to come all the way out to the floor correctly, and it would also be 47 inches longer,

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in this pic the re curved bottom is done

yellow lines = the old bottom to show howmuch was un bent from the old radius

blue lines = show the new bottom rails and the back feet at the corners to make it taller, also shows the entire new curve, keep in mind it will also have the 2 1/2 feet long flip down one the end so total itll be 17 feet long and 6'2" tall and it was allready 6 feet wide.

jsut waiting on some new torch fittings to fix our torch b/c the O2 line blew up the other day (good thing it was the cetelene s/p?)

the new torch stuff will be here tomorrow so hopefully saturday itll be complete

Posted by: Rootar

havent been on much lately but here is some pics that were on my camera from the past few weeks, (ive been super busy lately but with my spare time i spent it welding and cutting instead of riding so it is done and i'm riding it this weekend hopefully some others will show up to try it out also

i have two full days (sun & mon) to ride this weekend with no work and no school so i cant wait, ill post more pics maybe saturday or maybe sunday when i get to ride

laying out the new curve and bottom half

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the bottom extension getting cut and ready to go

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this was jsut layed together but its actually done now and looks like this except it has the cross beams in there and has the stripping where the tires run on... but you can see it good in this pic

6' 2" tall 6 wide 17 long

Posted by: pharit

looks good ross we may have to do that to my ramp this winter. But we need to work on out landing more than anything.

So how much is it costing you to do that extension? is that your shop?

Posted by: Rootar

so far its only cost me $35

lol all the steel added we had laying on the steel rack so it was free (left over) from other projects, hence the round tubing. The 35 went to (6011) welding rods and gas for our welding machine.

found this picture on the other memory card

Posted by: killerofcrows48

wtf is that?!?!?

Posted by: Rootar

lol thats my dad on the low light setting i set my camera for a really slow shutter setting to focus good and well everything has to be really still or its blurry like my dad

well i can say one thing omg is it smooth at 40 right now and im gonna move it back a lil further after i eat some lunch

this was definatly worth it it feels just like a full size (with out the top two feet of course) but right now im at full soft on all settings on my shocks hitting it in top of third gear and im not framing on preload, now before i would have my high and low comp fully cranked to barely not frame on preload in 3rd so it worked

Posted by: Rootar

DAVE i know your gonna read this man you are seriously missing out youd love this jump

haha me jumping over the shovel with it only at 30 feet, my good camera is charging rihgt now so when i head back out ill get some good video quality and psot a lil video up

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here is a lil sequence of that last pic

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Posted by: chicabang

i want a fmx ramp sooo bad

Posted by: brokeazz250r

dam ross!!! looking good! wish i could ahve made it man, 2 weeks though, im there man, cant wate though

Posted by: Rootar

haha yea you better be, your missing out man and talk to some people at the track this weekend hell you can bring 10 people i dont mind give them my cell number 903-733-3902 i can give them directions and we'll ride on that sunday i should have some video up on either putfile or youtube soon