Getting started with motorcycle welding, Part I

Most of the bikes that grace these pages that have had some welding done on them, somewhere. If you're building your own custom bike—or even if you just like fiddling in your garage—welding is an invaluable skill to have. It’s also a slightly intimidating prospect for the initiated, so this is a two-part guide. This week, we’ll dig into the theory, explain the different types of welding, and help you figure out which machine to get. What is welding? In a nutshell, welding can be defined as the fusion of two pieces of material. I say 'material' because we can...