First of all thanks for the views!
Second - Since I'm a huge fan of the Fallout games, every time I open the Class 2 Build-Off section, and remember it's name I just can't get this thing out of my head:
So started today by painting the rest of the colors on the fenders
The insides will stay flat black, and on the outside I will add two tones of blue, and try to imitate a patinated.badly painted look.
Also promised
@sdframe pictures of my workshop located in the basement beneath my regular workshop, where I do most of the "heavy" work like grinding, cutting, drilling etc.
It's a bit of a mess, but since the bike season is still at large, we will clean up here in september or so.
Started grinding the putty on my ugly welds.
Then the courier came, with a package...
...and some of you might know what's inside it...
Eyup! My new seat with sissy bar came! And boy, was I in a bit of a shock!
Saying, that this thing is huge, or even HUGE is just saying nothning... this thing is INSANELY HUGE!
the seat is 44cm (17 1/3 inch), and the bar is 130cm (51 inches), I actually couldn't find any words to describe this
Turns out it is a cool piece of history! It started it's life as a short banana seat & sissy bar that came from a 16" wheel bicycle like this Romet Cross:
Just need to explain - there where only a handfull of polish made ZZR & Romet bikes with banana seats and, mostly came in 16" and 20" wheel sizes, so finding a banana seat made in Poland is pretty hard.
But back to that insanely long one - somebody in the 70's or early 80's butchered a small seat like that, extended the sissy bar & the seat, added much more foam and upholstered it with this leather-like material, the same as used in old Polish buses and trucks. That's a neat thing to have on a custom bike, and it cost me only 26$ + shipping (another 5$ or so). So a total win, and that deserves a mock-up photo!
Till now I was totally happy with how all the lines end up on this baby...
And so a catastrophe had to happen
Next step was to put the BB axle so I could start mocking up the chain guard, and after a few tries I figured that I had a serious problem... The BB that I welded in the front of the frame had a broken thread... on BOTH sides
An hour of cursing at myself, for not checking that BEFORE I welded it there, and another 3 hours of swearing, tools dropping on my boots, and hitting my hands on the frame (or hitting my other body parts with wrenches
) i finally figured out a method to put a new BB axle in there...
Special tools required, a lot of Brutal, Barbaric Slav Muscle Power...
STOP! Time to refill those muscles with some power! Have yourself a meal, and no bike project could be done without the best Polish cuisine:
KIELBASA & PIEROGI!
And it's there alright...
Not entirely striaght, not that easy to spin - but it's there... forever... will take some measurments with the old BB axle to see how much offset it really is, but after I put the crankset on it for a try it appears that it rotates quite straight!
So the time came to "mock up" the chain, to start measuring the chainguard.
"I wonder how long this contraption would last..."
And i definetly need at least 1 and 3/4 of a chain to make this baby work....
Also I figured out that I only need to make a front chain guard mount since I can just make a bracket at the back that will be mounted to the V-Brake pivot.
And right now I have two questions for you guys...
1. The Crankset.
How do you think? keep the original plastic chainguard and wrap the metal one above it, or ditch the plastic one, and use only the metal one. This is how the crankset looks without it:
2. The shifter.
I need some help with my shifter. I know some people from the forum had done conversions of grip shifters to stick shifters, but I can't recall the method they did it, and who did it. Any help would be greatly appricieted!
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(also working on lights when I'll have all the parts)
