Murdered Out Roadmaster - done as she's gonna get pics

[socal_jack]

NOS Baby ! Need to paint the legs if I were to use it on this one, but it's 1 1/8 as is the roadmaster, rough on tanks if you screw up on a bar cruise though. Been saving this one a long time. Really have something else in mind, too many non-black parts.



Some internal rust on the tank, but took the acetone to the outside of one half cleaned up pretty good only some slight rust and very small dents externally.

[socal_jack]

This is more what I was thinking, gotta touch up this used mtb fork a bit but not bad overall, hopefully I can get it to sag down adjusting the air preload but it's only an 80mm, otherwise I have a black unsprung fork as backup, just need a headset now, got tons of spare 1" headset parts, wasn't expecting this frame to take 1 1/8"

[jimw1960]

Don't much care for those mtb shocks on vintage frames. that pro-link looked ok, but like you said, hard on the tanks. One of those monark repop springer forks would look great on that frame.

[socal_jack]

Don't much care for those mtb shocks on vintage frames. that pro-link looked ok, but like you said, hard on the tanks. One of those monark repop springer forks would look great on that frame.

Good thing it's not vintage and no thanks, owned a pair of those repop Monarks, a real POS and even more of a POS up close, bad construction, bad finish, and non-functional but look OK in a photo. Plus they would still be tank unfriendly. These were a whole lot cheaper, match better than the repops and are functional also.

Did a little mock-up with the probable mostly final parts, will need to black-out the tank after de-rusting of course. Either have to file the forks to get the axle all the way in or swap out to a QR setup. Should sit just right with weight on `em. Need to cleanup those tires.

[karfer67]

i dig the mix of new and old rock it

[bean]

Looking good.

[deorman]

All together now: We like black bikes and we like 'em a lot

[Korporal]

Nice looking steed so far. The shiny on black is solid. One of the cool things about that fork, if you can adjust the sag, you've some play with the stance. Cool.

[socal_jack]

Got the headset in, now just have to black-out the lettering, making some progress on the tank removing dents, rust and paint. The pitting on the chrome side has me thinking wire wheel at this point.



Found some cheapo $10 driving lights might make a good headlight kindof an art-deco look, I think the halogen bulbs would have melted these pretty quicly as they are completely plastic, will get LEDs. Had an old headlight with a possible mounting bracket was going to use the aheadset expander to mount under fork but I think I'm just going to ream the bracket out and mount under the stem. can't easily get it flush. Need to prep and paint the mounting bracket.

[herr_rudolf]

what a cool light...
I love bicycles build out of non-bicycle parts. Especially when it looks way better that way. Good job. You already have a beautiful bike.
Keep it up!

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

dude this thing's looking good.

[Gold Street Customs]

Reminds me of a hitech klunker.

[OUTLAW]

those forks are it. great lookin bike.

Outlaw

[socal_jack]

what a cool light...
I love bicycles build out of non-bicycle parts. Especially when it looks way better that way. Good job. You already have a beautiful bike.
Keep it up!

dude this thing's looking good.

those forks are it. great lookin bike.
Outlaw

Thanks! Not too much progress, been splitting time with my Elgin build and any painting I want to do I'm holding off until our May-gray/June-gloom, heavy humidity/fog/drizzle clears up. But I did clean up the tires with this stuff called "Beyond Black" worked pretty good didn't even reflect the flash that good(spokes need some touch up paint also). Got the LED into the headlight although this bulb is longer than the halogen, need to figure something out so I can close the 2 halves together, rounded up a tail light from the parts pile, that'll get mounted to the seatpost I think, something minimal. Figured out that a 1inch steerer tube spacer fits in teh pocket under the fork so I can use the bracket as originally planned looks better down there anyway.

[socal_jack]

Slow progress, but finally got the inside of the tank halves prepped, all rust is gone just need to prime and use the undercoat treatment as I did on another tank, shown here measuring up the battery configuration.



Here's the problem with the LED replacement for the halogen, the pins are almost out the back of the housing, but I'll use the wire grommet turned around and a couple of d-sub female pins crimped to the wire from the tank, a bit of heat shrink tubing and maybe a backfill with black RTV.




Took another pic of the cleaned up tires outside for a better comparison