(MBBO#04 class 1) Huffy Pro-Street DNF mock up pic 1/1/16

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I have been wanting to build a cruiser based road bike after seeing this picture
(sadly it was a quite a while ago that I saw this so I cant give credit to whoever did it)
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yes I know this only meets one of the 3 criteria for the rules but I have an idea or two that will make it legal for the MBBO

I will be using this camelback style frame that turned out to be a huffy mad man bicycle without the plastic tank
This will be an ideal candidate for a road based bike because for a steel frame it actually is fairly light
It weighed close to 7lbs
plus the look of this frame reminded me of the Huffy All-Pro muscle bike
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What it once looked like (also this is the same frame as the huffy made coca-cola bikes)
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So to start with I added a 3 piece crank BB adaptor
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And I have this aluminum fork
I originally bought it for another project but it turned out to be to narrow at the top
and it wouldn't fit a 26 x 1.75 tire
but I plan on running a much skinnier front tire on this build
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I believe it is from a Schwinn Prologue road bike
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Well with work calling me to cover extra shifts progress has been very slow
but I finally had a chance to get something accomplished

I was able to at last pull these crank and pedals off a cycle truck I acquired a while ago (seems to me a bit odd to for someone to have these on that type of bike)

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Aluminum Takagi forged Ultra Dyno cranks
and Surefoot II pedals
The chain ring is steel and has 52 teeth (I could have used aluminum but I wanted something more durable)


The cranks where a real bear to get off the cycle truck
and some thread damage was the result
so I had to find a way to re thread the crank so I could use a crank puller on them again if needed
I ended up having to use part of the puller and clamp it in with a vise
and slowly re thread it
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Ok so i have a little more progress to show
not quite as much as I had planed between work and trying to find some of the important parts for this build

One major bummer was I couldn't find the type of seat I originally wanted to use
so I will be using this mesinger wing seat
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using this type of seat will change the handle bars I will end up using

The other part I have been working on
is the truss rods for the fork
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they are store bought aluminum tubes that I am modifying for my use
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here you can see where i crimped the tube to attach to the aluminum bracket (probably from a girls silver king bike)
 
Got my 700c 51mm deep v rear wheel with 2 speed kickback from a LBS that I had been waiting for so i could get working on the main part of this build
due to lake of time I will only post teaser pics tonight and get the rest up tomorrow

so what do you get when you take
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yellow reflective strips
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rubber spray paint
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goodyear eagle stencil
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on this rear rim with a slick tire (to be added)
check it out on new years day
 
well i ran into too many small problems to finish in time for the voting
but I will at least offer up this mock up pic to give you an idea of what it will look like once finished
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Maybe Luke will have a vote for best unfinished bikes
 
currently cant put air in
it was the tube that was one of the biggest problems
(among many) that prevented me from entering
 
I had another idea that would to fit the bike into the rules without a banana seat (not shown in the mock up)
but I will save that idea for a future gravity bike build
 

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