I'd bought a length of brass 1/4" x 1" x 36 with the thought of fabbing up my own fender struts. That went by the way side since I found an outstanding machinist to custom fab a sissy bar for me. I'll have pics of that in a few days when it arrives. Anyway, I figured what the heck, lemme attempt to make a headlight bracket. Should've taken more pics of this in progress - only got one.

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Lemme tell ya', it wasn't easy to bend the stuff (bench mounted vice). I could only manage to get a slight curve in it. I figured I'd try some Mapp gass on the bad boy to make the whole process easier and got the surprise of my life when after a few minutes, it didn't even begin to glow cherry red. Even bending it immediately after turning off the torch, it bent exactly the same as if I hadn't heated it at all. I learned something today - brass dissipates heat very quickly. Within a minute after taking it out of the vice, I could hold the heated section with my bare hand.

'07 Triumph America - 153 mains, 45 pilots, airbox gone, '71 650 chop, '04 America powertrain for chop being built now.