TRADITIONAL 🅵🅾🅾🅻🅸🅶🅰🅽 - 1930s Elgin Oriole

[Captain Awesome]

Don't make me pull this car over.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Winner.

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

It does but in the case of @MattiThundrrr dibs works in the sense of all my bikes have become our bikes he lives his bike dreams through my collection.

You're a good friend, and so is Matti.
Tell me tho, who's Costello? lol

 

[BobbyStillz]

You're a good friend, and so is Matti.
Tell me tho, who's Costello? lol

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It does but in the case of @MattiThundrrr dibs works in the sense of all my bikes have become our bikes he lives his bike dreams through my collection.

"Yeah...who's Costello?"

 

[Wildcat]

Rolled FOOLIGAN back out yesterday and noticed that I must have pinched the rear tube since it was flat. I'll fix that later.

I wanted to play around with some forks again.

• The Evanaction is still an option since it turns out the bolts under the fork were only there for a fender, so there shouldn't be any clearance issues.
• The early waterfall beehive is still an option.
• Forgot that I had this Rollfast/Snyder beehive. This is similar to the fork I used on Flexy back in BO7, but this one has the more cylindrical spring and is just like the springers on the collectable Hopalong Cassidy bikes.
• Crusty later beehive that I've had from @wildcats old 53 CWC build.

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My vote now goes with the beehive!

I had two of them, one in the parts pile, and can't remember if they both went to Georgia. If not, I still have one back in Florida along with the 53 Schwinn frame. The CWC was shiny at one time.

 

[kingfish254]

@Dr. Tankenstein reminded me that I had this cool rusty girder fork.

It looks cool, but not even close to clearing the tire.

 

[Fv2]

@Dr. Tankenstein reminded me that I had this cool rusty girder fork.

It looks cool, but not even close to clearing the tire.

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Yeah. Those are best for skinny tires. I'm using 26x2.125 on my chopper, and it's close. But not like that^.

 

[kingfish254]

My vote now goes with the beehive!

I had two of them, one in the parts pile, and can't remember if they both went to Georgia. If not, I still have one back in Florida along with the 53 Schwinn frame. The CWC was shiny at one time.

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I looked back in my Kingfish Finds thread and see that I also got this other beehive from your parts collection back in 2014.

 

[kingfish254]

Yeah. Those are best for skinny tires. I'm using 26x2.125 on my chopper, and it's close. But not like that^.

I'll probably use some 24x3 on whatever build that girder fork ends up on.

 

[kingfish254]

Rudimentary mockup works for the dropout extensions.

 

[kingfish254]

Put the beehive back on. This mockup would move the axle back about 1.75 inches from center of original dropouts

 

[ingola]

Put the beehive back on. This mockup would move the axle back about 1.75 inches from center of original dropouts

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You have a nice space now in front of the tire to put something pictureing something like an old motor cycle oil tank or a soup can

 

[BartRidesEternal]

@Dr. Tankenstein reminded me that I had this cool rusty girder fork.

It looks cool, but not even close to clearing the tire.

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That is a cool fork. Looks like boardtracker material.

I say: more dropout extenders!

 

[kingfish254]

That is a cool fork. Looks like boardtracker material.

I say: more dropout extenders!

I'll keep that in mind

 

[Captain Awesome]

 

[kingfish254]

You have a nice space now in front of the tire to put something pictureing something like an old motor cycle oil tank or a soup can

Maybe a whiskey flask number placard/battery pack (with hidden switch under the cap?

 

[kingfish254]

Time to put the fatty tire back on the wide rim, but first I need to patch where I pinched the tube. I decided to let the fish help out.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

 

[BobbyStillz]

Maybe a whiskey flask number placard/battery pack (with hidden switch under the cap?

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My first thought as well. nameplate or something...

 

[kingfish254]

Maybe something like this