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Awesome work. I’d be tempted to say leave it in bare metal but I went through your Corgi Cargo build and saw the paint/graphics used there. Looking forward to how you plan to finish this one off! Curious, where did you source the kickstand (or did you fabricate it)?

Backbone Thought it was worth showing a few close-ups of the main center section of the frame. Initially I had dreams of highly polished and painted surfaces for this build. A little general roughness might be more appropriate. This piece has developed a bit of "character". Cutting and...

Picking up the Pieces This shot is one of a bunch of attempts I started off with. All very similar but way too close to what I had just cut apart. In searching on "kustom motorcycles" for inspiration I ran across examples of 70's choppers with king/queen seats. Got me thinking. Imagine this...

Thanks. Tweaker energy... late start and a summer full of plans ahead. I'll take all the help I can get!

Under the Wheel Now to figure out a way to put it back together.

Change Can be Painful First a round up of details of what I'm starting with.

A Little History The origins for this build have their roots way way back in BC (Before Covid), at the dawn of 2018 in the Winter Build Off as Nautilus. As always with these build offs, had a lot of fun, learned a lot, and ended up with a new bike. Unfortunately I never really cared for the...

Poor Tweaker. Bad choices and the strong pull of his older brother Crunchy's influence have won out. Despite best efforts Tweaker's never really been able to live up to his full potential. Time for some introspection and re-evaluation. Back to square one... a return trip to the drawing board.

Ahhhh, yup that would do the trick!

I was looking at how you’re planning the pivot point of the rear suspension. I’m wondering if you’ll be able to get that close enough to the crank axis so that the distance between the crank axis and rear wheel axis doesn’t change (or changes only slightly) as the suspension moves. You’ll want...

Thank you sir, much appreciate. Yeah, the “slow” in “low and slow” on this is applying as much to the build speed as how fast the bike will actually be. Three months in and I basically just have a frame and a pile of parts . Would have been nice to wait for the build off to start but I suspected...

ADDITIONAL WELD DRESSING Time and motivation have been a little slim for this build lately. May let it rest for a bit but, I'll get back to it eventually and post progress as it comes.

Thanks. That Cadillac is really nice. Pretty excited that you made that connection.

FRAME WELD-UP I'm amazed when I see some of the images online of welds that professional welders can produce. True artistry. I think I've finally come to terms with the fact that my welds are never going to be able to even approach that type of quality. I can at least get two pieces of metal to...

Thanks for the compliments. Guess I need to check-in more often... closing in on a month to give this reply, yipes! I'm planning on fabricating the tank. I think I can get the front light bezel done in metal by squeezing and sectioning a piece of tubing. Not confident in my sheet metal...

MOCK UP 2.0 I made some paper & cardboard templates to be able to see everything that I was thinking of together before getting too far into actual building. This is the general direction I'm headed but I'm sure things will change as I go.

MOCK UP Time to pull the frame from the fixture and check how things are looking.

BOTTOM BRACKET On this design I have the bottom bracket pushed out in front of the main down tube. I started with a straight tube section tacked in place. Then to reinforce that connection I came up with a second piece that curved upward. After seeing it place I wasn't too sure and I might...

CHAIN STAYS I've been using the same "dies" that I used on Shortbow to make the "S" bends for the top and mid tubes and, now for the chain stays. Here's a link to that build with info on how the dies where originally made. Forget where I saw this but, running a file across the two tubes...

MID TUBES Used a template to locate the mid tubes relative to the head tube and worked my way back. I mocked up the mid tube main forward section and the pieces that bend around the rear tire. The best place to sleeve the two together ended up right near where the mid tubes get welded to...