54 CWC

[milbums]

Summer is over,recovered from all the BBQ's, family visiting, birthdays. Time to build another bike. I sold my Huffman and now need something for our monthly "Bike Party" ride. I picked up this CWC frame and Behive springer from Terry66.

I am going with satin black and almond accents.

Testing fitting the tank.

Will be using this deco stem I picked up on the bay.

Waiting on parts now. Peaked fenders and Solana tires should be here any day.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

That is coming out nicely!

Luke.

 

[kensmurray]

I can't wait to see this bike together. Paint looks awesome.
Kenny

 

[ornery37]

awesome! great color combo!

 

[milbums]

Finished the striping, went with a metallic gold.

Now just waiting on parts.

 

[HxCforever]

Your the one who out bid me on the torrington stem. Bike looks nice.

 

[milbums]

Your the one who out bid me on the torrington stem. Bike looks nice.

I don't think I was in the same auction, I was the lone bidder and got it at the minimum bid (a steal). I think the seller didn't list it well as I found it searching something else. These are the auctions I love to find.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Great color combination, looking forward to seeing it all together!

 

[milbums]

Picked this up on my local Craigslist. Anyone have the clamp piece for sale?

 

[Jpromo]

Did you stripe that by hand? It looks awesome.

 

[milbums]

Did you stripe that by hand? It looks awesome.

I taped it off with fine line body shop tape and painted with a brush to give it the hand painted look.

 

[milbums]

I picked up these near perfect (not one dent) peaked fenders. I was having doubts about repainting these and using them on this bike until I looked further and noticed they were blue underneath the black and white. They must have been repainted at one time and are not original.

 

[milbums]

Fitting the curved strut fenders on the behive was a little tougher than I thought it would be. I tried mounting the struts to the front and rear pivots like the Higgins fenders, but that just didn't look right with the curved struts and they were just a little too long as we'll. In the relaxed position the struts were just a tiny bit too short to reach the axle mount point. I knew I wanted to make the fork rigid to prevent the bottoming others have had, so I made a strut to go inside the spring (copied thatismytruck's design). I made it a little long to extend the spring just enough to have the struts land on the axel bolt.

I tried reversing the curve on the the front strut. Not sure if I like it or not.

 

[milbums]

Started getting this together. Have another project to do for Christmas so I have to get busy. I removed the gold stripe on the forks after I took the pics they just didn't look right.
Without tank

With tank

My girl had to get in the pictures

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Love it! Awesome pup too!

Luke.

 

[milbums]

Tried a couple of seats and this Troxel seems to be the best fit. I need to pull it apart to recover and clean and paint the carriage.

 

[milbums]

Chain, ring and guard installed.

Took seat apart, cleaned primed and painted hardware. Now I need to find some leather to cover.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Just getting better and better Milbums! Beautiful bike and workmanship!

Luke.

 

[milbums]

Took a trip to Goodwill today and picked up a couple of leather bags for $6 each, should be able to cover 4 seats with these.

Used contact cement to glue cover and reassembled seat.

On the bike.

Also installed shifter, grips and pedals, just need a stand and this one should be done. Need to get some pictures outside in the next couple of days,

 

[Rat Rod]

Love this bike so far...super nice work!