you can make nice looking, smooth bends by cutting extended pie sections out but leaving the top strap intact. heat with a rose bud and bend over a section of pipe held in a vise to get your desired shape. The pie ends won't meet, so then you cut fill material (take some matching material, hold it underneath the cut and mark the edges with your soap stone, cut these out) and spot weld on one side then the other before welding it all solid. grind smooth and no one will know how you did it once the paint or rhino liner is on. If you need pictures, let me know I can do you a drawing and post it here.