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Here is my entry for the MBBO2013, I'm pretty late but hey, better late than never.
I picked up this 1949 Cleveland Welding bike a few months ago, it was all complete except for the seat. When I bought it on the bay, I was under the impression that it was going to be a 20'', but upon picking it up, I discovered that it was actually a 24". I was actually more excited when I realized that.
I had stumbled across a thread in Bike Talk that was discussing pig bikes, the idea of a skiptoothed bike with a nanner and apes had been driving me nuts, it was just too cool looking, and all though I didn't have a 20", I decided to go that route with this bike anyway.
The red paint in the picture above photographed a lot better than what the bike looked like in person, It was house paint, about 5 coats of different colors, lol, there were drips and runs everywhere. The wheels were the same, coat after coat of brushed on house paint. I strippped off all those layers to discover what looked like OG paint, it was a burgendy and white color. Oh well, OG paint bores me anyway.
I decided to basically use everything on the bike except for the fork ad fenders, I bought at 24'' springer, and some chrome fenders, I had no idead what actuall direction to take with the color scheme, here is my first mock up after primer.
I hate seat posts showing if they don't have too, so this seat will be all the way down touching the fender! Those of you who follow me on instagram know that I have shot a few coats of paint on this already, but do to an accident in the garage, I'm in the process of repainting the frame.
The basic color scheme is going to be silver, black, and red. I pretty much have all the pieces, i just need to get to finishing paint! I'm dragging.
Here is a rough pic/mock up of the color scheme, I'm going to go with a black on black wheel set.
I'm going to be two tonng the frame with red scallops. I hope I can pull them off OK.
Here is a shot of the underside of my fenders, I painted them an apple red, just a cool little detail ...
Here is my entry for the MBBO2013, I'm pretty late but hey, better late than never.
I picked up this 1949 Cleveland Welding bike a few months ago, it was all complete except for the seat. When I bought it on the bay, I was under the impression that it was going to be a 20'', but upon picking it up, I discovered that it was actually a 24". I was actually more excited when I realized that.
I had stumbled across a thread in Bike Talk that was discussing pig bikes, the idea of a skiptoothed bike with a nanner and apes had been driving me nuts, it was just too cool looking, and all though I didn't have a 20", I decided to go that route with this bike anyway.
The red paint in the picture above photographed a lot better than what the bike looked like in person, It was house paint, about 5 coats of different colors, lol, there were drips and runs everywhere. The wheels were the same, coat after coat of brushed on house paint. I strippped off all those layers to discover what looked like OG paint, it was a burgendy and white color. Oh well, OG paint bores me anyway.
I decided to basically use everything on the bike except for the fork ad fenders, I bought at 24'' springer, and some chrome fenders, I had no idead what actuall direction to take with the color scheme, here is my first mock up after primer.
I hate seat posts showing if they don't have too, so this seat will be all the way down touching the fender! Those of you who follow me on instagram know that I have shot a few coats of paint on this already, but do to an accident in the garage, I'm in the process of repainting the frame.
The basic color scheme is going to be silver, black, and red. I pretty much have all the pieces, i just need to get to finishing paint! I'm dragging.
Here is a rough pic/mock up of the color scheme, I'm going to go with a black on black wheel set.
I'm going to be two tonng the frame with red scallops. I hope I can pull them off OK.
Here is a shot of the underside of my fenders, I painted them an apple red, just a cool little detail ...