When building a custom motorcycle you run into lots of small problems, and often how you attack these problems make a big difference in the final result. My favorite thing about a custom bike is often something really small and clean. This shows my solution to some fork stops needed for my bike, which mated a '61 pre unit Triumph front end to an earlier and different style '58 swingarm pre unit frame. The stops on the lower tree and frame didn't mate up, and I was sure I was going to dent my tank in with one quick swing of the bars.

I decided to do a simple fork stop that would be hidden by the headlight, and that wouldn't necessitate a metal stop smacking into my frame neck, chipping the paint. I started by cutting and filing a small steel tab and welding it to the cast steel neck on the frame, so it just cleared the lower tree.