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Well bike is still at the painters...
Thinking I might rewrap this in Tweed again minus all the amplifier business. Bike is blue, rims are gold anodized, should match up nicely...

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Well bike is still at the painters...
Thinking I might rewrap this in Tweed again minus all the amplifier business. Bike is blue, rims are gold anodized, should match up nicely...

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I was looking forward to the amp affect. Picturing a Wah wah connected to the actual pedals that kick in when you back pedal. Oh yeah. Well, maybe next build? :cool::cool::cool:
 
The amp's been done and there's way better battery amplifiers available that the old micro Fender I used. A lot of the reason I tore the old build down was that I wasn't using the bike at all. It did win a "Best Rat" trophy at a Classic Cruisers in Chicago and a pretty good blues player ripped on it for a bit (should've vid it) but when a build is just taking up valuable garage space it gets dismantled or rebuilt sometimes repeatedly...
 
The amp's been done and there's way better battery amplifiers available that the old micro Fender I used. A lot of the reason I tore the old build down was that I wasn't using the bike at all. It did win a "Best Rat" trophy at a Classic Cruisers in Chicago and a pretty good blues player ripped on it for a bit (should've vid it) but when a build is just taking up valuable garage space it gets dismantled or rebuilt sometimes repeatedly...

That old amp build was such a cool concept. I remember the pics of you with it from the club show. So appropriate for you!
Glad to see you are able to recycle the tank though.
 
It's blue . There's a hint of a shimmer in the spectrum of visible light. I didn't expect it really to show at all but there it was floating in the hole burned thru the grid. The whole thing should've just shut down or cascaded into a feedback loop so nasty that the gravity shed would've collapsed in on itself. I'm not sure if it still might do that anyway or not. It's an enigma we haven't seen it like this before. But I think it's a manifestation of the musicality of the lightwave generated. What else could it be? It's just floating there. Is there a pulse? Is it a shimmer or twinkle of starlight? When the song was over and the drivers had dumped the last of the upcycled oscillations into the grid, I could see a tear begin in the center of it. Just like ripping the speaker cone to shreds in the old days, I thought... What if I slam it again with a progression of notes ramping up two octaves higher than what I had just played? It's already just there like some kind of infinity tone on the edge of visible light. But how is it blue? That's not on the edge of the visible spectrum. I put the old Stratocaster down. I wanted to make some adjustments on the board before I slammed anything...

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Sexy Excuse Me GIF by Pit Viper
 
Aw man! I was hoping for the sunshine shot. It's still sexy peaking through the door at night though.
 
Oh you know the problems with waiting till the last minute...
Missing bits here and there, what saddle since nothing I found was what I wanted...
Where in this town is a stupid water feature...
 
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No sunshine but it rolls even tho I'm missing some shifter bits
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Little clock is handy wrenching in the garage. Oh! Gotta go!
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Possible the seat choice bare frame sprayed with FlexSeal
 
WOW!!! That is beautiful even without a water feature.
Next time put a sprinkler behind it and you're golden!!
 
Man, that bike has a profile! Love the paint and the saddle, this is coming out great! :cool2:
Thanks! It's a 40's Rollfast from the original seatpost forward and a modern Huffy MTB rear section. I fabbed the connecting section between the two. I especially like the tapered part. It's a miracle the old Monark fender fit in the rear and the repo fork worked even tho I replaced the actual fork with a chrome landing gear style one. I also like the blue headlight on here much better than on the Greaseslapper... (I swap parts off old builds often till they find a home. Like the blue light on here!)
 
DaaAAANNGG! Carl, that looks sweet! And nice and long for a tall rider. Great fab work on the frame and the fork. Fork looks old school stock, until you examine it. That paint and those rims rock.

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DaaAAANNGG! Carl, that looks sweet! And nice and long for a tall rider. Great fab work on the frame and the fork. Fork looks old school stock, until you examine it. That paint and those rims rock.

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Thanks. I've always liked this frame, it's vaguely Zeppelin "ish" but bigger. I think getting the seat stays and the down tube parallel made all the difference. I looked over and measured a few donors before cutting up the Huffy. I've kept my eyes open for a decent flask to go between the seat posts, but nothing yet. I may have to do an antique mall search, we've got a few around here. Notice there's no tank. I've decided the tank looked too much like the old build, as much as I liked Rockin' Rollfast, that bike is gone...
 

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