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I am looking at custom making a chainwheel for it.... large, skip tooth, running a racing block chain and incorporating the bikes name or "make" in the chainwheel... at this stage the current working name is "CSC"...… "Custom Shed Creation" Just got to get my mate Steve to help with the design...

Plus I have started to make wooden hand grips for the bikes (and most likely for sale) I have the leather on the way to wrap them.... I have roughed out the wooden blanks so far from mahogany.

The job of making what has ended up being 28 separate bits of metal to be fitted to the frame has been a mission of patients and filing!! Then I decided that the ones on the seat and lower tube were to small and I have to make 8 more!! Back to the lathe to machine the tubes, marked ready for...

I consider this bike a full custom, not a replica of anything so I can pretty much so what I like... and I like slightly fancy lugs.... so I decided to made decorative "lug additions" for this bike. After many designs drawn and rejected (thanks to Deric again and Mel for there help) and I ended...

Bike with Brooks B17 Narrow I nicked off my CCM (I want one for this project!... or a Flyer with rear springs)

The final "thing" looks like this.... yet to cut the slot and clean the thread out of the top half of the clamp or finish the welding!

Now a handle bar stem... I wanted the bars as close into the stem as I could get them for that 1910 ridding position. I tuned up a nice barrel shaped bit for the bars to go through and a pinch bolt bit.... and filled away the stem until the bolt down the middle would just clear. Then I made and...

Next was to mount a seat..... none of the seat mounts I had were the right angle so I made one.... please ignore the crappy welding... that will all get finished and cleaned up!!

Then it came of the jig and I had a rolling chassis..... last shot compares it to a 1954ish BSA...

Next was to size and fit the bottom tube and tack weld it in with the mig. The size the top tube that I had to make out of two tubes and tack that in....

So now I know where my wheels are going to sit in the rear of the frame and the forks. The next stage was to clamp together various combinations of wheelbase and steering tube length until the right look appeared. Deric of Chritchurch NZ was a HUGE help at this stage as he has been looking at...

Next was the forks.... I wanted them as short as possible again to accentuate the sloper look, and the forks on a lot of those bikes had lots of rake but not much curve... I started with a set of forks from a Dutch build Phoenix bike I have for parts and chopped them shorter then used the...

Before I go onto the forks here are some bikes that I am using for inspiration.....

Next was to modify the seat stay to match, which involved straightening what I had before I could even start... made a hollow round sleeve on the lathe and welded that in. Then ground it oval to match the tube.

The next task was to get a 26 inch wheel to look right in a 28 inch frame and bring the wheel base in for the look I was after.....

The first task was the take the frame from a 22 inch to 24... again to make the sloping top tube more radical looking..... I used the top of a BSA seat tube so I only had one join to make rather than adding in a two inch part....

I got part way through my long lean BSA Path Racer and got distracted my another project... the Sloping top tube Path Racer look appealed to me so I started to look around at the bit of frame I had around and making a plan. Part of the plan was smaller wheels, the bikes back in the 1908-10...

I think I should really call it a vintage custom rather than Path Racer as I am going so long that I am not only stretching the bike but the already VERY loose definition of what people see in there minds eye as there version of a Path Racer. At the end of the day its just some creative fun...

So heavy in fact that the floor jack could not take the colossal heft of solid British iron and kept dropping when I wasn't looking..... You will observe it being replaced with terocota pavers now.... That so far have not appeared to have moved or cracked! But I am keeping a close eye on them...

Thanks for that. I like to show the way I do things so others can learn a few tricks... like joining those oval tubes.... not the "regulation" way of doing it I expect but simple and strong. :)