This Great 1949 Schwinn girls bike Came in to a friends shop . I was going to part it out when later that night it came to me my 20th wedding anniversary is coming up in June. why not fix it up for the wife . So here goes The blue Diamond a mildly custom skip tooth 1949 Schwinn . Got it all...
Schwinn girls bike with matching #s , truss rods , locking fork with key , skip tooth, got it for helping a friend for a couple hours going to clean it up as a gift .
I'm thinking of going with powder coating . The fork in the pic is the Sunlite springer I picked up on Amazon I have a Monark also that I picked up local . Probably using the Monark because it does not have all the disc brake stuff welded to it
Its getting there got a skip tooth rear wheel , chain , crank and sprocket last weekend at the swap meet at Free Ride . Still need front wheel and seat post going to order a seat post from Slowriderz soon and think I might have a possible lock on a wheel to match the rear one.
I have been building bikes for many years Just joined RRB recently .What got me into this build off was the anything goes does not limit my creativity the other is the thrill of competing against others around the world don't think anything should be changed. I had a great time watching...
Probably not the bike room has termites have two customer builds to finish and need to get my jeep going my son is 16 now. I will try to get in on the next one if not. What are the rules for the one on May first ? Just incase
Finished up with the lic. plate holder / tail light mount yesterday getting the finial pics ready here are some I took today along with the photos of the lic. holder being built from an old rusty chrome fender .
When all else fails go buy the big guns . I was having trouble with the regular hand pull rivet guns bought two different ones and only got about 9 rivets in the tank . Now I'm going hydraulic pneumatic hopefully this works still have a couple more things I would like to do before THE END:banghead:
More pics of the tank in progress pop rivet gun is giving me hell . Time is ticking down April first is almost here trying to finish up by next weekend so I can go find a spot for final pictures.
I'm a big fan of the first Indians And Harley's but for some reason or another I have never motorized a bike and I lived in South Dakota as a kid just south of Sturgis (the inspiration for a lot of my builds) and have had several motor cycles always just kept the two separate . The bikes with...