Well wasn't sure where to put this, seems the right place! Just a few bikes I have right now.
My first and only, thus far, attempt at a ratty kind of bike. After looking around here, so inspired! BTW, I don't even know what year or model it is, it was painted a funky green when I got it. The serial # is on the left dropout, but starts with an "8", and 7 digits, 8(G or 6) 07525. Didn't see that combination on the Schwinn serial # list. Don't think anything was original exept the frame and maybe forks. It had a SA 3 speed on a bent rim. Anyways.. Got me around last summer, but new plans for it! I did a rub n' buff brass on it a bit, so not so flat black. Now I see, not so much a rat rod, but gotta' start somewhere!
The woman's Hollywood, Kinda mostly restored. Then..
Now.. Needed a front rim, the old one had holes rusted through. So the one here is another wheel I aquired. Still need to fix it up. And the grips should be white. In retrospect, was pretty cool all rusty.. And after all that, the ladyfriend would rather have a Stingray Fair Lady!
My first and only, thus far, attempt at a ratty kind of bike. After looking around here, so inspired! BTW, I don't even know what year or model it is, it was painted a funky green when I got it. The serial # is on the left dropout, but starts with an "8", and 7 digits, 8(G or 6) 07525. Didn't see that combination on the Schwinn serial # list. Don't think anything was original exept the frame and maybe forks. It had a SA 3 speed on a bent rim. Anyways.. Got me around last summer, but new plans for it! I did a rub n' buff brass on it a bit, so not so flat black. Now I see, not so much a rat rod, but gotta' start somewhere!
The woman's Hollywood, Kinda mostly restored. Then..
Now.. Needed a front rim, the old one had holes rusted through. So the one here is another wheel I aquired. Still need to fix it up. And the grips should be white. In retrospect, was pretty cool all rusty.. And after all that, the ladyfriend would rather have a Stingray Fair Lady!
After the rim was painted and laced and such, I put it in a cordless drill, and spun it, not too fast. Held a pencil in my hand against the rim, basically touching the spinning rim with my thumb, then layed a pencil line. I lined the pencil in my hand against the rim of another pinstriped rim, to get about the right depth. Then if the rim is not perfectly true, the line follows the rim, getting a fairly good line. Did an inside and outside line, then taped it off and painted it. I suppose you could rig something like an L bracket in a vice or something to get the right depth, and maybe some kind of device to hold the pencil too. It reminds me of manually putting the needle on a record, kind of! I didn't look around to see the "right" way, and maybe this has been done before, just what I came up with.
