1890's Copy Bike

[Uncle Stretch]

Ok today I finished the bike. I stained the wooden grips the same color as the seat. Should have tried the sand the seat and shellac it to be a light color . Oh and I finished the front excuse for a brake. I'm not thinking it will do any skids. :shock: It rides nice and I feel like I got real close on copying the original. It was an interesting build , not like what I normally come up with. It really needed to have bigger rims than the 26'' ones and some white tires. The cost on this one was about $8 in some pipe....everything else I already had. Hope you enjoy it.

This was the one I copied....maybe Rms37 will tell us what kind of a bike it really was.

 

[mastronaut]

That is the BALLS! Awesome job! 8)

 

[stretch]

looks great! now you need a cool headlamp.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Its not going to be around too long. I just built it for fun not for keeps. I have so many bikes here I'm running out of room to keep any more. :roll: :shock:

 

[Dan Jose]

Good work again.

 

[texasbigjon]

that came out awesome paul! :mrgreen: with your skills,find an oddity that you would like to re-create,and build as a keeper! dont do it for us,do it for the duke! :lol: from my collection of americana,here you go!

 

[Uncle Stretch]

The Duke is my hero....Then there is Clint Eastwood. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[kram]

Man Paul it turned out awesome. I like it because it's based on the old bike but has some Uncle Stretch in there too!!!

 

[Uncle Stretch]

I think so too....it will be funny to see it all cut up tomorrow, when the real build starts :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Look for it in the build section...my bandsaw is getting more itchy by the moment.

 

[kram]

I know where this one is headed

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

that is crazy! in a cool way of course.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Ill have some pics in a little while ,after I drink some coffee, of it all cut up . :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[user 135]

You do more on bike before 10am than most do in a week. And that includes a trip to the postoffice :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[Hammond Eggz]

Awesome. I just hope you don't have to make any emergency stops with that bar brake! :wink:

 

[crt95]

That is an awesome spoon brake. How well does it work?

 

[Uncle Stretch]

That is an awesome spoon brake. How well does it work?

Terrible...but it looked cool.... The bike is now cut up and just a memory . Glad everybody liked it. It was a fun build.
This is the part that I needed for another bike

 

[bikesntrikes]

I don't understand why you'd cut up the bike and not sell it or give it away? You put time into it and it's a great looking and different bike from the rest. Someone else could have enjoyed that bike. I, for one, would have loved to have a bike like that.

To each his own, I guess.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

I built it for fun . Your right I could have given it to someone. I really doubted that anybody would have wanted it. The market is down on bikes in the Houston area and I have lots of bikes I have built ...waiting for the market to come back ....They are everywhere. I cant keep building bikes to flip and not flipping them. I have finished bikes stacking up . I used the center out of this one to build the one I'm doing now. It just gives everybody something to watch. Sorry if you feel like I did something wrong by cutting it up.

 

[kingfish254]

Never knew @Uncle Stretch did a copy of an 1890s bike.