above is the design for my wifes first Beachcruiser...so i bought her an porucho frame and started the build...while building her bike i had so many ideas i wanted to try so i ordered my own porucho frame...
its almost finished...still waiting for the wheels to be finished ( a good friend is a really good wheelbuilder!!!!)
while waiting for the bike i made a lot of designs...even a "son of wolfgang"
the day my frame arrived i had to go to the basement to build it up for a test ride...
but the fork wich is extremly cool in my "wolfgang" looked terrible in this frame (in my eyes)...
i didn't like it in this frame... so i went back to the basement...
..so an old "springer-fork" went into the porucho as well as a moon-bar... and i came to a point where i started to like this project...
but after a short time i went back to my more "boardtrackerish" style with a lower handlebar...
... so the bike got its first color... the lamp and the longer bars were only mounted for one cruise in Leipzig... i chose the colour because a friend needed 6 Month to paint his bike
.....i had the idea of building a "Karmann Ghia Tribute" Bike... so i painted it white and put some nice decals on... more "old-school"
...i even had the chance to get my hands on an old "sachs Speed Shifter"... which i mounted in the lower top-tube...
...i even experimented with "speed-disks"... (not a good idea!)
...after that i put on another bar...and i used the bike as a carrier for one of the lamps i build for another tretharley-board-member... some white walls looked quite nice on it...allthough because of the tiresize the bike came realy uncomfortably near the ground...
...the lamp-project was sold and an "old-style" lamp was mounted...
...for some time i was looking for a more "meanier" look... so i found my old "downhill-bar" and some Flame 3.00" tires fited perfectly...not good for my back... but for the looks... and the bike was really fast...
...the riding position wasn't good for my back so i thought of reusing the old Ape from the Electra-bike which became "Wolfgang"...
...now the bike was big and tall in all dimensions...
...i thought again...of a more "badboy"-look...
..so i waited a month for my new tires (Leopard Duros/Point Bigfoot 3.00)...by the time the colour had changed from a "vintage"-white to a typical "hot-rod" colour theme...
the project came to a dead point... i had a lot of ideas...but nothing really satisfying...
...slowly some ideas came to my mind to give the porucho a more unique look... starting with the seat-mounting...
... after a few weeks... i had the chance to buy me an 3G Imperial Springer Fork... and so the project got some fresh air...
... i always didn't like the angle of the steering tube... so i planned i new and much flatter... and was looking for a really big lamp (found that the suzuki 500s and 250s have the perfect lights for me)
...so now i start building my favourite frame around my favourite fork
...the unmodified frame... the bike looks more "chopperish"...
... and how it will look like in a few days (today i marked and meassured all the cuts and tubes, and started cutting them)
on thursday i have a "date" with wolfgang for welding and using his steelshop
...wish me luck everything will come together good....!!!!
have a good night....yours Tibor
