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	Here's the bag from the side. It bugs me that the crash bar angle does not match up with the angle of the bags so.....
	Time to true up and form the crash bars. They had been scraped up pretty bad but here is a time honored principle: Even though they are a little rough, take the time to make them fit and mount them. There are millions (literally millions) of projects sitting in the garage waiting for the time to make new crash bars or paint this or modify that. It is far better to do something a little rough and have it done then to never get around to doing it. I love the look of the crash bars and if I mount these rough ones I will have a template that will make rebuilding these or making replacements easy. Here I am truing up the angles on the bars. I get the lower mount square and true.
	Here the trusty torch is used to heat up the corner of the bars so I can bend them a little so they match the angle of the bags. Bad move, it turns out, because someone had done the exact same thing previously. The bend had a crack in it that was filled with brazing. This melted out and left a big hole, but at least the bars were in the right position. This was important because I would use these bars as the template to make the mounts that will weld up to my cut-up struts.

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