Looking For Some Advice

Sorry joe can’t help really, the only place I know of is here
There is another place on the a3 as you come out of Guildford but I don’t really know much about them

 

Any competent plumber should be able and equipped to bend your pipe provided it is not too convoluted.

 

That’s the problem with the good guys

 

As for the bending bit, subject to radius, you need a strong vice, a disused brake disc from any service centre for free, a good quality pair of vice grips and possibly a hollow tube as an extension bar to slide over your tube.
Put the disc in the vice as hard as you can, put the vice grips at either quarter to or ten to on the edge of the disc making sure you leave enough space within the jaw gap to slide your tube in then slide your tube in and bend it round the diameter of the disc, tapping ever so gently whilst keeping the bent tube under pressure. The extension tube is just for extra leverage if needed.
I’ve just been modifying a customers Harley-Davidson and I needed to use the same methods these are the radius’s you can achieve

 

@Dougie D look some Harley stuff here for you above!!

 

Very useful advice. Does it help to fill the tube with sand like a plumber would use a spring inside the copper tube to prevent it crushing in on itself??? Could help on thin walled tubing I suppose??

 

I'm not a lover of brown seats on bikes,but each to his own and why do people get work done on their bikes in the summer!

 

It only works if the sand is compressed which is another job on its own

 

Ok no worries, the info is there for you.

 

I bet there's not a plumber or pipe fitter alive that hasn't got a pipe

I bet there's not a plumber or pipe fitter alive that hasn't got a pipe bender slung in the back of the van