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Man, I am running into several roadblocks, or what we in Illinois refer to as the state animal. 1). I got my package of parts from England and tore my 3 speed apart to put the 4 speed internals into it. There is a difference in the hubs and the 4 speed is a 40 spoke so I cannot use the hub. They...

Porkchop also has the Chrome brass nipples in 100 packs for about $20 shipped on eBay

Does anyone here remember the story behind the casting of the Liberty Bell? It broke on its initial test ring and was cast twice by Jon Pass and John Stow using different alloys but to no avail. No matter how many times they tried it was never perfect. Jump to the present day. Hawg Wylde has...

I sent what I found not only for the possibility of other parts but also in case you want a spare belt man. They may be available by conversion but it would be hard to conceive them being any cheaper with the length being twice what a normal bike uses. You never know. Could you modify a West...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333729166013?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=-aE-pL5DTGu&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=gwpce3z-sj6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY This is a new belt for belt drive. You could ask this seller, he may know where some other parts are.

I will be adjusting it once everything is assembled. I will be using rubber pads to insulate the metal from the paint while I am doing so. I hope to get it more in tune with the parts and frame as a whole. There will be a red or red/orange/yellow panel behind the chainguard inside the louvers...

For the people who have never heard of the overdrive shifter on the 4 speed hub, it is called the Lauterwasser modification, done by an English racer named Jack Lauterwasser who used it in the 1928 Olympics. I am working out the shift parts on the bench while I wait on the four speed hub. I am...

Cassandra Cillian concurs.

I got a light primer coat on the frame and added the chrome base coat, allowing 24 hours between the coats. Now comes the hard part. I have to wait 7 days before I can shoot the Candy Red over the base coat. Since I am using the Rustoleum Chrome as a base for the PlastiCoat Metalcast Red I am...

I feel like I am letting this thread die, so I am letting any new viewers know it is transfered to Hawg Wilde, my 1962 Schwinn Typhoon Pig Bike in the Build Off #17 Class 1 build journals. Thanks for looking here at my project! Rob

Yes it will be man, it is somewhat complex and will require 3 shifters total. The rear hub is a Sturmey archer 4 speed, which can be (read; will be) modified to a 5 speed. That conversion requires a separate shifter than the 4 speed itself. Then the hub gear conversion is shifted with a...

Catalogs arent always right, I had one in my (failed) bike museum with the white letter slick and was set to buy a Gremlin girls bike with the original white letter front tire when I had to liquidate.

I have not had a chance to repaint the frame yet. I did a rolling chassis mockup so I could show the basic form the bike will be taking. I am using an early 60s Sprint sprocket on a 5-1/2" crank. Not a lot of ground clearance but with the gearing I am hoping to break the ton. Or at least the...

Actually, I believe it is a Whizzer, check the tank logo. It was just customized by a kid, thats why it looks better than a normal Whizzer. Also, you could buy the Whizzer as a kit and put it on whatever frame it would fit on.

Looks like an Ashtabula forged Cycle Truck stem. It is probably still in service somewhere unless someone sent the bike to the scrapyard after the kid quit riding it. You could get long stems like that on Schwinns for sure as well as some English bikes. There were a few selling on The CABE not...

My original scheme for the bike was a pre-WW2 Indian Headbadge and panel inside the top frame bars with the Indian tank logo, but it evolved to this. Who knows about tomorrow though?

Well, that was a short election. The referendum to show the stem won by a landslide 2 YES votes. I am HOPING it can be finished and delivered before September 6th, 2022 (questionable since I am not the only buyer in line, but the maker said he would do his best) and is pictured below. WARNING...

The price on my stem for Hawg Wylde just posted yesterday at another bike site. A member is reproducing a hard to find stem, and it is an awesome job! I am on the pre-run order list and while it is not like buying any other part on the bike, It is worth every cent. I just took out a second...

I dont believe you ever have been that way to me man, and it is the people like you that ask for forgiveness before they even do anything that make thise other people bearable. NAH, I can't bear them even then. I do appreciate members like you that make it a good experience to be here. another...

I know, I built some wild stuff as a high school kid. I am duplicating some of those bikes for myself now.