Hello! So I'm new here but I've always loved rat rods ever since a kid. So this is my bike, I picked it up from an old hippie in Berkley CA. Its a 1962 Schwinn Fleet, and its in pretty good shape! It has little rust and I had plans to make it a rat rod bike, but now I'm having second thoughts. I was gunna blast it all and paint it flat black with hand drawn pin stripes, red rims, whitewalls...etc. but I might just leave it be because its in pretty good shape. I did do the typical mods: remove basket, drop the seat and flip the handle bars. However, the tires do need replacing, and I ordered blackwalls but whitewalls came. Which is ok because I was thinking about leaving everything but putting red rims on it with whitewalls. White rims with whitewalls would be too much white... :? So what do you think? Would it offend anyone if I powder-coated the rims red and put whitewalls on it? or just leave it? Any suggestions appreciated!
Here she is the day I picked her up.
Basket removed, seat dropped:
Bars flipped:
Here she is the day I picked her up.
Basket removed, seat dropped:
Bars flipped: