It all began while perusing Kickstand's 4th issue. Kenny Prather's El Bastardo struck a nerve. Something about it. I started asking questions. Emailed kenny, but he didn't divulge too much. Talked with Eric "4th Horsemen" Paulsen and he knew a bit more about it. He offered to build me a frame like it. Then I stumbled upon the Basman 732 on the Chopperdome website. That too got me going.
After numerous talks with Eric, we decided to put together a bike that had some qualities of each bike.
I like the top tube of the Bastadro:
I like the front end of the Basman:
Since the 2 bikes begin with "B", I figure mine would be the "B2".
Since Eric was building the frame from scratch, I figure I'd go all out and go with 100mm rims to really make his life miserable:
and big 24X4.25 tires front and back
which of course would never fit a conventional front fork, unless you go to Amsterdam for this;
(which took months to get here thanks to that dang volcano in Iceland)
and i see a SA 3 sp rear hub with a knarly suicide shifter on the right side:
So far, Eric has had the hoops re-laced with black spokes and is making adjustments to the fork. I want the tire slammed to the bottom of the lower crown, so he's gonna take some 4" or so out of the forks to make it work.
rear tire;
fork before mods
After numerous talks with Eric, we decided to put together a bike that had some qualities of each bike.
I like the top tube of the Bastadro:
![B21.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/dd4/dd4cb9fa89f26002edee13a79e32561d.jpg)
I like the front end of the Basman:
![B2.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/352/3528ae2be2a7de1ae5d77a62a0123269.jpg)
Since the 2 bikes begin with "B", I figure mine would be the "B2".
Since Eric was building the frame from scratch, I figure I'd go all out and go with 100mm rims to really make his life miserable:
![B25.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/432/432f4d22a7977381c8d92644e96b3092.jpg)
and big 24X4.25 tires front and back
![B26.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/f75/f751dc3ef313a546fd56eaa31b67a815.jpg)
which of course would never fit a conventional front fork, unless you go to Amsterdam for this;
(which took months to get here thanks to that dang volcano in Iceland)
![B24.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/75e/75e12761bfef56759dfc52b8586cbbe9.jpg)
and i see a SA 3 sp rear hub with a knarly suicide shifter on the right side:
![B27.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/bf1/bf13ca4aa3f163abbf8fc573dbb4a476.jpg)
So far, Eric has had the hoops re-laced with black spokes and is making adjustments to the fork. I want the tire slammed to the bottom of the lower crown, so he's gonna take some 4" or so out of the forks to make it work.
rear tire;
![B22.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/dc4/dc4b8edc8e26ac62796b8a3c93d3ea15.jpg)
fork before mods
![B23.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/1e2/1e2f24cf27d7f061bb3bf07e2e1656f1.jpg)