The 20x20 Huffy Slangshot...
I started out with the rusty carcass of a 5 speed 68? Rail. It has Coast King badge and was originally marketed as a Rail Cougar 5 but it's a Slangshot now!
The biggest cchangei made was to the fork. I was short on both 16" wheels and slingshot forks so I made...
LETTING MY FINK FLAG FLY!!!!
Final piece before pics!!!!
I discovered a DIY banner with blank white canvas pennants and I went to town. I would up making 3 different versions so I could experiment with a few things. 1st i drew an image with a sharpie and then put it up to the light so i...
As luck would have it I stumbled across a dirt cheap Huffy Exercise bike today. I saw the white speedo with a non-black cable and figured it might actually say HUFFY so PERFECT!
What I never realized before is that the left handed drives on these are actually just right handed drives flipped...
Added a couple more pieces of flare... the mirror has a white reflector so I thought it fit in but it is far too shiny. The picture was taken mid-rustification.
A few more bits... sticking with the dirty white theme I added the white grips and some white stem caps. Also had a turn signal unit hanging around that happened to have the same dirty white look so I threw it on too. I used a bunch of old school metal cable clips to tuck everything away...
The mag sprocket is on and so it the stack. Was back and forth between faded orange and dirty/off white for the paper backing on the guard. Pretty sure I am going to run the white though.
Now that the original guard is gone I think I need a name change. Going with the Slangshot from here...
I got some Rail-Mail today!! Going to use the stack for sure but not sure what else?? Very tempting to swap over to the mag sprocket and short fender but I am kind of partial to the long version with braces for this one.