Rat 'n Roll

[socal_jack]

Just picked up a local pickup from the bay, pretty cheaps an old skippy Rollfast

 

[schwinnmesa]

Very Cool!!!

 

[october]

nice!

air up the tires and go! :mrgreen:

oct.

 

[sensor]

great score!

 

[Firewalker]

I like!!!

lots thatyou can do with that! :mrgreen:

 

[socal_jack]

Dude slimed the tires to make it rideable but the axles are pretty losse, front tire rubs fenders when you turn. It's been lightly sprayed with some red paint but I think that'll come off easy. A tune-up & grease, pull the fenders and chainguard and it'll be a nice rat.

 

[sensor]

do you have any close ups of the headbadge? just looked closer and it looks like somethings out farther than the rest of it(im guessing its like that from the factory)

 

[socal_jack]

sensor, some of the early rollfast have this neat 3D badge, don't have a picture of this one but it looks like the one below. There's some history of the parent company making ball bearings which what some surmise the balls to be, but who knows, I've almost bought one of these badges to put on a schwinn before.

 

[Joshua85]

gorgeous badge, nice find

 

[sensor]

thanks for posting that. looks cool as heck! :mrgreen:

 

[socal_jack]

Finally had a chance to clean it up a bit, a little acetone revealed the darts in the original paint on the frame and fork. The rust patina is perfect just need to strip the rest of the barn red paint. No need for fenders in So*Cal, and I hate chainguards. The wheels are pretty shot but I have a set of rusty S2s that I almost used on the RBBO2 bikes probably swap them in after swapping the rear hub guts and I'm done

Original bars were too narrow, so swapped some old schwinn bars of correct period rust, and the grips matched. anybody wants teh original bars PM me, yours for shipping cost.

Closeup of paint darts

Closeup of badge

 

[sensor]

very nice!!! and thanks for the close up :mrgreen:

 

[ej599]

Now THAT is a rat rod. I like it.

 

[socal_jack]

Dang it, was hoping just the left pedal axle was severely bent, but the left crank arm was also twisted a fair amount, luckily I have some period rusty cranks laying around. Removed the BB last night some cleaning to do there.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm diggin' it!

 

[socal_jack]

Stripped the bike down, some interesting construction in both components and detail.

Skippy chain master link still worked, desipte being encased in a combination of dirt, hardened grease, and rust, siiting in some lacquer thinner getting clean right now.

For it's time this bike was ahead of most I have seen as far as protecting bearing(although they were all trashed anyway). There were top caps for both sides of the bottom bracket as weel as the topof the headset seen in this photo. Another oddity is a 27/32" seatpost?!?

The chainring was held on by a round "nut" with on an identation that allowed it to be "drifted" loose(beat with a hammer and punch).

The headset was pretty loose, threads got wworked a bit, still enough left though

Just need to finsihing cleanup of frame and fork

 

[aka_locojoe]

I like that bottom picture.

 

[Firewalker]

wow. If you can...I would chase the threads :wink:

FW

 

[sensor]

thats a nice looking bike youve got there :mrgreen:

 

[socal_jack]

Soaked the chainin lacquer thinner to get all the grease off then soaked in evapo-rust to get all the rust off, got abunch of forks that need work might be time to breakdown and get a 1 inch die set. You can see the diamonds in the side plates again.