Headlight brackets.

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These are a couple of headlight brackets I made up, and the process for bending them. The end had to be a pretty tight bend to get the clamping screws in as close the stanchions as possible so as not to bend the clamps when tightening. These suit the build, but I have found a pair of commercial available forged or cast ones that mount in the same manner, but they have a rounded profile. So the ones I made probably won't make it onto the finished bike

Unfortunately, if you bend non annealed aluminium too tightly the aluminium fractures, so I had to compromise, round the bend a little and sacrifice the mounting bolt position and put up with a small amount of fracture. Aluminium can be hardened after annealing of course, but not quite as easy as steel. Or you can just leave it for 10 years and allow it to harden naturally. I'm sure many here will disagree with that, but that's just the way it is!
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