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	I do remember this part. This is where I convinced myself the flanges were too long for the angle they were supposed to mate at. Here I am holding both the left and right big-bike struts marked for trimming. At the bottom picture you can see the huge gap just about this long. I do need to make that board longer after all.
	Here I am clamping the big-bike strut on the left to my modified strut on the right. Having the big flat surface of the big-bike flange go over the mounting hole is comforting. This meant it will not just be a weld that holds the struts together-- the mounting bolt will go through both so even if all the welds break the lower mount will still dangle from the bolt. I took this to the bike about a hundred times and fretted and worried and adjusted and fidgeted until I was confident the struts were at the right angle, I then ran an arc weld from the edge of the flange you see to the face of the sporty strut.
	Before I could evaluate if the length and angle were correct I had to drill the flange of the big-bike strut where it covered the hole in the sporty strut. The sporty strut is the perfect pilot for the 5/16 drill.

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