Genuine Bicycle Products Article 2 Klunker build

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Our last A2 in stock, my friend wanted the bike with gears for the hilly terrain in his town. We start with a frame and Red Menace fork installed. There will be some tweaks to make it work as a klunker type bike as it currently has 110mm rear spacing.

 

[rev106]

Minimal Progress.

I must have 100 crates full of bike parts but finding some cranks with the right dish was a bear. I am using a mish mash of old and new parts.

Got the Thunder Chicken front D, good for a Klunker build because you can run housing right up to it as the bike has no cable guides...

Swapped out the stud on a brake so it could fit. I have a mess of thses radius brakes but they have the shorter stud for an allen sunk into the fork. Need old school for this old school type build.

Also have a mess of these adapters for the bb, they are all stamped wrong, this is why they were a buck each! Found that out the hard way....

Some Red Menace bars...

 

[rev106]

Wheel and tires on. I need to get the rest of the parts together to finish. Did an axle swap for rear wheel, need to add a spacer to center it and ad a gear cluster. So far, like the stance, going to be a nice looking bike. Need to get to polishing up some old bits next.

 

[Couch tater]

Looking real good! I used a Genuine Bicycle Product fork on my RRB build off entry, Mudd, the best piece of the whole bike (well maybe the valve caps). Keep the good stuff coming.

 

[rev106]

Got is all done toady. Swapped out plain jane stem of an Evil Ed stem. Messed around with the 3 piece cranks and bb interfaces too long and got nowhere so went back to good ol' one piece cranks for the win. 15 speeds, more than a "modern" mountain bike . Enjoy and klunk on!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Slikkkkkkkk!

 

[rev106]

Bruh.