Addison Speed Special

[stretch]

Well, im in! i finally got it right with this bike, and have already made progress! i posted it before in the builds, but it fell through. i have since sandblasted and painted the frame and forks. name might change, but for now it stays. i bought the paint thinking it would be like a red oxide primer, but its more like a matte burnt orange color.

[dumpster_diver]

Wow that hurts your eyes! Nice frame start!

[stretch]

yeah. sunny days make for really bright pictures.

[stretch]

well, i've done everything i could do today. touched up some spots on the paint, cleaned up the bearing cups and put the forks on. next task is to buy paint for the wheels, buy spokes, and sandblast the wheels.

[MonsterMetal]

I really love the shape of those frames! lookin good

[stretch]

well i finally got some stuff done, now im just waiting on the spokes to come in at my LBS. i got the paint done, still working on stripping the wheel rims. i might actually end up buying new ones. at least one, if not both are slightly bent, but im hoping i can straighten them out when i lace and true them. i also bought bars and grips(hockey tape with cheap bar end plugs sanded and painted to match the bike!)

[Metal Militia]

looks great so far. MM

[ratrodman39]

Lookin good

[thatismytruck]

I love the color!!!

[stretch]

how do you guys and gals think cream and black pinstripe accents would look? like some kind of cool darts on the forks and some striping around the soon-to-be headbadge and whatnot?

[thatismytruck]

It would look outstanding!!

[stretch]

not much of an update, but its something. i FINALLY got the spokes in and started to clean up the rims. it seems that they are both slightly bent so that when you lay it on a the table, they wobble a little. but before i took them apart, they were actually very straight. can they be trued so they're straight again?

[Uncle Stretch]

I have found that you can lay 1/2 of the rim over a good table and push down and kinda keep working on them to get them straight. If you start with one that is bent it makes i really hard to true them.

[stretch]

thanks for the tip, ill have to find a flat surface stable enough to do that on. my workbench top is made of cheap partical board, i already knocked off some of it.

[fenderhole]

that's one awesome bike you got there! those dropouts look hauntingly familiar...