█★█ starsNbars █★█ 38 Hawthorne Twin Bar 5 Bar ☠ - Red White and RUST - Tied for 7th Place

[MOODSTER]

Great build! I really dig this bike.

 

[kingfish254]

I like the extra weight up front. Did you consider how it might effect your light?

I assume you mean visual weight and I hadn't thought about it that way, but you are right. It does add a bit more visual balance. The contrast of old bike / new fork holds up fine, but I just like the idea of giving the Girvin more of an old bike vibe.

It wouldn't be right to use that big light with the beehive. That light is a bit of a beast and I have been struggling with the adding braces that aren't too bulky. I love the look of the light, but I think I would rather have the beehive if I make it flow. I have smaller lights that may work fine. I also have the light bracket from the Higgins fork. I even tested my Wester Flyer Super headlight on it. I don't think this is the right light though. I also don't think I would have the beehive fender bracket extend as far as I had it in this photo.
I may not even use a light.

 

[kingfish254]

Great build! I really dig this bike.

Thanks moodster. Glad to see you back on the boards. Are you planning on jumping into the build off?

 

[2dawgs]

My latest starsNbars experiment is a Beehive Girvin. I was sitting in my office and I noticed the Higgins Beehive that I got from @Wildcat .
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My mind start thinking what it might look like if I used the Beehive and it's arms as a faux springer on front of the Girvin. Brought it home and took it apart and did some test mockups. I'm not planning on putting a fender on here, but I could cut the front section of a fender to use as the springer base and make it look like a Higgins base. I have a good idea how to attach the upper stabilizer arm of the beehive so that it won't interfere with the opperation of the girvin. I would probably also have standoffs coming out from the brake bosses. I'm still very fuzzy on how I would connect the ends of the springer arms down near the ends of the forks. Maybe some faux rocker arms. Not sure.

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KF,

That looks great; it's a keeper. Dig the front fender.

 

[kingfish254]

KF,

That looks great; it's a keeper. Dig the front fender.

Thanks man. We'll see how it works out. I'm not putting a full fender on the front though. Just planning on using a very small section as beehive base similar to the Higgins fork.

 

[MOODSTER]

KF, no- maybe next year. I just bought a 57 schwinn, and am just going to be crusin for a while. Still have my parts stash for my roach and I may just do a quickie build on it. Probelm is my full time job,home repairs, and 3 project cars.By the way- the build off bikes get better every year, the imagination and implementation of new ideas is impresive!

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Very cool with the added beehive!

Luke.

 

[jasper87]

Awesome! I love the springerder

 

[Pedal_junky]

Just had fun flow of thought session in my shop. Luke recently posted a link to Der Rod Baron from BO6 and I saw where @gowjobs used some bike chain to secure his coaster brake arm. I had been wanting a different way to secure my front drum brake, so I went out to the shop to experiment. As I started playing around I though it might be cool to wrap the entire fork in chains

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Then I thought maybe make horizontal stripes for the fork
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From there I thought, "what if I did my vertical stripes in rusty chain?"
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Which was followed by, "What about the stars on the upper legs?"
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So maybe something like this with three stars up top and four stripes below.
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Yes, yes, and yell yes.

 

[OneHorsePower]

53 days to go!!

 

[kingfish254]

Yes, yes, and yell yes.

Actually, I am pretty certain that I won't be using the rusty bike chain Stars and Bars idea.

 

[kingfish254]

Very cool with the added beehive!
Luke.

Awesome! I love the springerder

Glad you guys like the Beehive Spring Girder idea. Still a lot of details to work out on it.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

I keep thinking that you could engineer a mount and rockers that would actually make it function. With short rockers, it wouldn't have to move much. That would be wild to have a double suspension fork!!
Either way, I like how it gives the modern fork a vintage look and adds the visual weight.

 

[kingfish254]

I keep thinking that you could engineer a mount and rockers that would actually make it function. With short rockers, it wouldn't have to move much. That would be wild to have a double suspension fork!!
Either way, I like how it gives the modern fork a vintage look and adds the visual weight.

I thought the same thing, but that would need a much beefier beehive base to handle the stress. Plus I am not sure how well a double secret probation fork action would work. . There are some really cool forks out there this year. It's gonna be fun pulling this together.

 

[MIGZ]

this bike is looking good, I searched for one of those forks but everyone i found either had too short of a head or the welded on brake tabs

 

[kingfish254]

this bike is looking good, I searched for one of those forks but everyone i found either had too short of a head or the welded on brake tabs

Thanks man. I picked up a Proflex early last year for $50 on CL. Ended up selling the other parts for $280+ and I got a free Girvin.

 

[flyingmachine]

your building just gets better and better !! love the direction your build is going in , Awesome !!

 

[kingfish254]

your building just gets better and better !! love the direction your build is going in , Awesome !!

Thanks man. Hoping to get some build time tomorrow. I may be too busy with a few flip bikes I bought the past couple of weekends.

 

[kingfish254]

Redid the spacers and nuts on my front wheel and added these as my faux rocker beehive springer arm braces.

Seeing @flyingmachine 's grips, it reminded me that I had these yard sale shishkabob skewers. The handle springs may become accent springs.

Took starsNbars into Queenfish's garden and tried the accent springs midway

And down low. If I use them, I like them down low much better.

 

[kingfish254]

I even played around with the star chainring again (which I don't like again). I will probably use this Delta headlight shell to make my headlight. Better scale with the beehive. Now I just need to create a proper bracket for it all.