Cool picture.
That is one of my go to puddles. We were married in that Cathedral.
Praise the Lord and pass the biscuits.
TRADITIONAL 🅵🅾🅾🅻🅸🅶🅰🅽 - 1930s Elgin Oriole
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That is one of my go to puddles. We were married in that Cathedral.
Praise the Lord and pass the biscuits.
Your city is just gorgeous! Loving the way the bike is looking. On the tank I think if you age the red a bit the off-white part seems to play well with the forks.
Best part of a kingfish thread.. love the bikes but your city amazing
If I relocate back to the states, Savannah is my first choice.
I've never worked on an Evansaction springer. Are the springs adjustable so thay can be tightened?
I plan to age both the fork and tank to blend with the frame patina more.
Thanks, it was so fun to get it out in the wild and see it in bigger spaces than our courtyard.
I plan to age both the fork and tank to blend with the frame patina more.
It was a beautiful evening too. Right around 80 degrees but low humidity.
That would be awesome to have you in Savannah!!!!
The springs you see on the fork are pretty much ornamental. The truss rods do move, but all of the shock absorbtion is handled by the big rubber block between the upper fork and lower fork. If you look back on Page 19 of this thread, you can see the assembly details from my VerBoten build.
Here is a photo of the compression block on this fork.
Here is a cool little video
I couldn't be more pleased with the first shakedown ride. I was fully prepared to just make it down the lane and back and have something rub or have some problem with the extensions or the saddle.
But right away it just felt solid and tight all the way around. It was beautiful weather too. Just dropping below 80 and lower than normal humidity. Tons of people out and about with SCAD (the art college here) graduating tomorrow.
I ended up riding for 2 hours from 7-9pm. Got plenty of "cool bike" cat calls. Had 4 different tourists come up to me to check out the bike in detail. Two of them even showed me pics of the cool bikes they've built lately. I told them that their builds would look perfectly at home with our group and pointed them to the forum.
Back to the bike. It was just super solid, no noises, no surprises, very comfortable riding position and cockpit feel. I really thought the gearing would be low with the small front, larger rear cogs, but it was perfect for the start/stop of downtown Savannah. Brakes worked fine going down our one hill from Bay Street to River Street. I even stood up in the pedals riding back up that hill later. Just rock solid everywhere. I'll do an inspection of the dropouts tomorrow to see if there was any noticeable shifting in their position. I couldn't tell any difference in the ride than any bike with original dropouts. You never know sometimes with bikes we build for esthetics how they are going to feel on a ride. This one was A+ for rideability to me. The only thing I didn't test was emergency braking. Normal braking and constant load braking down the hill both worked just like any of my bikes. Even though I had my wrenches, I didn't want to risk emergency braking causing something the get out of whack with the dropouts or alignment on an evening ride. I'll test that soon, but expect it to be fine.
But right away it just felt solid and tight all the way around. It was beautiful weather too. Just dropping below 80 and lower than normal humidity. Tons of people out and about with SCAD (the art college here) graduating tomorrow.
I ended up riding for 2 hours from 7-9pm. Got plenty of "cool bike" cat calls. Had 4 different tourists come up to me to check out the bike in detail. Two of them even showed me pics of the cool bikes they've built lately. I told them that their builds would look perfectly at home with our group and pointed them to the forum.
Back to the bike. It was just super solid, no noises, no surprises, very comfortable riding position and cockpit feel. I really thought the gearing would be low with the small front, larger rear cogs, but it was perfect for the start/stop of downtown Savannah. Brakes worked fine going down our one hill from Bay Street to River Street. I even stood up in the pedals riding back up that hill later. Just rock solid everywhere. I'll do an inspection of the dropouts tomorrow to see if there was any noticeable shifting in their position. I couldn't tell any difference in the ride than any bike with original dropouts. You never know sometimes with bikes we build for esthetics how they are going to feel on a ride. This one was A+ for rideability to me. The only thing I didn't test was emergency braking. Normal braking and constant load braking down the hill both worked just like any of my bikes. Even though I had my wrenches, I didn't want to risk emergency braking causing something the get out of whack with the dropouts or alignment on an evening ride. I'll test that soon, but expect it to be fine.
Glad you posted that. I thought I was losing my mind…..again.
You’ll be limited by the amount of threads in that end tho. Looks like you’re close?Edit: just saw you took it for a ride. Sounds awesome.
Glad you posted that. I thought I was losing my mind…..again.
I forgot to take a photo as I assembled the crank and spacers, but there were threads left over on both sides of the crank.
Few more pics from the ride.
Someone just asked this question on FB about the tank:
"Does the Bugeye tank have anything to with the Cicada Bloom this year ?"
"Does the Bugeye tank have anything to with the Cicada Bloom this year ?"
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MattiThundrrr
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Bike is great, blah blah blah, you don't need my advice on that. Instead, a Savannah question, is that statue on the pier based on the Spirit of Ecstasy?
That's a gorgeous backdrop for a deco bike!
That's a gorgeous backdrop for a deco bike!
Yes, it is a large replica of that.
Good eye
Warehouse 13 B don’t make him tesla you!
You don't often see a photo of our old bike builds next to a car that's actually older than our old bikes!
Happens more often than you think in Savannah. At least in today's pic, FOOLIGAN was in the same decade as the Model A (30s)
Speed Demon wasn't even close with this Packard three weeks ago.
Of course, sometimes the vehicles are from a galaxy far far away
