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While searching for backup to what I did I found one post from a drag racer who had made his own triple trees all from aluminum, both upper and lower tables and the stem. While a dragster runs on glass smooth tracks, most of them have severily raked front ends to get lots of trail and high speed stability so they have more stress on the bearings, the neck and even the fork tubes yet a complete aluminum triple tree was OK and the racer totally confident in his design.

When I look at how bicycles are made, I am more worried about the front end coming apart than what I did, how often do you hear of a stem breaking on a bicycle? My onw bicycle has a fork made out of carbon fiber, a plastic part :!: totally safe and sound with more stress on the bottom than my weld will ever see.

"What me worry" Alfred E. Newman

Jean

<blockquote data-quote="Jeandr" data-source="post: 98848" data-attributes="member: 866">While searching for backup to what I did I found one post from a drag racer who had made his own triple trees all from aluminum, both upper and lower tables and the stem.&nbsp; While a dragster runs on glass smooth tracks, most of them have severily raked front ends to get lots of trail and high speed stability so they have more stress on the bearings, the neck and even the fork tubes yet a complete aluminum triple tree was OK and the racer totally confident in his design.When I look at how bicycles are made, I am more worried about the front end coming apart than what I did, how often do you hear of a stem breaking on a bicycle?&nbsp; My onw bicycle has a fork made out of carbon fiber, a plastic part&nbsp; :!: totally safe and sound with more stress on the bottom than my weld will ever see.&quot;What me worry&quot; Alfred E. NewmanJean</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeandr, post: 98848, member: 866"] While searching for backup to what I did I found one post from a drag racer who had made his own triple trees all from aluminum, both upper and lower tables and the stem. While a dragster runs on glass smooth tracks, most of them have severily raked front ends to get lots of trail and high speed stability so they have more stress on the bearings, the neck and even the fork tubes yet a complete aluminum triple tree was OK and the racer totally confident in his design. When I look at how bicycles are made, I am more worried about the front end coming apart than what I did, how often do you hear of a stem breaking on a bicycle? My onw bicycle has a fork made out of carbon fiber, a plastic part :!: totally safe and sound with more stress on the bottom than my weld will ever see. "What me worry" Alfred E. Newman Jean [/QUOTE]