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Of course, none of my salvage bikes have a rear derailleur that will work with the modern mountain frame and quick release wheels so I had to use one of my spare road derailleurs. Seems to index alright. Hoping I’ll be able to adjust it to work perfectly when I get the chain on it. That’s...

So for the shifter... I’ll give this a go. I saw this somewhere on the internet. Affix a piece of handlebar to the frame and use a Gripshift twist style shifter on it. Cut an old handlebar, bolted it up through one of the numerous existing holes and mounted one of the many twist shifters from...

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Mounted a stem and the ape hangers on it to get a sense of how it feels. Cruising toward the end... Need to route the brake cable and figure out the whole shifting thing. Also clean up some small aesthetic issues. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Was able to mount the sissy bar without having to bend it at all. A length of 1/4” threaded rod and some aluminum tubing to cover it tied the bar and seat together. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can just picture The Grinch tooling around town on this. It's totally his color scheme.

Was given this sissy bar. It’s almost 8” wide. Not sure what kind of bike it is from. I need to narrow it down to 5.5” and don’t want to cut it so I’ll put some fancy bends into it I guess. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Shaping up into something almost rideable Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Able to make some progress today. Headset installed and it fits. [emoji106] Bottom bracket all greased up and installed. Crankset added. Popped the seat on it as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Yes, leaving the aluminum bare. Thinking of just a satin clear coat over it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can relate with the weather issue in these parts... I seem to use the heat gun to dry paint quite a bit this time of year.

@OddJob called it. Carbon fibre vinyl wrap. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Preppin’ to do a little carbon fibre-ing to the rear swing arm. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mocked up frame with wheels. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Welded and somewhat cleaned up fork. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm pretty excited that with 27 entries, if I finish my bike, I should be able to at least place in the Top 30 for this buildoff. :dance2:

Yep, definitely the black mags. I think it looks good with or without the fenders. The mags give it sort of a BMX look and I can’t recall seeing any fenders on a BMX bike. And yes, go with the regular apes instead of the tall ones. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Triple tree fork rough cut, before tack welding and clean up... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Starting working on the fork today. Cut up the bent suspension fork I’ve been featuring in all the previous photos. Welded the fork legs onto each end of a piece of 1”tubing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk