5 Speed CCM Gender Swap

[HotRodRob]

I was approached by a friend of mine about finding him an old or old looking skinny tire bike with some gears. He wants it to look cool as well so I start brainstorming. I look at my herd of bikes and alas! A late 60's early 70's ladies 5 speed CCM and I just happened to have the mens frame of same color and approx. year. Gonna swap everything over, street sweep the fenders, not sure on bars yet. I'd really like to paint it that GM teal, I just love that color. This won't be anything super exciting, just a build.

The donor..

The recipient..

 

[onelesspedestrian]

cool, I have a very similar bike, but 3 speed. I look forward to seeing your ideas for it.

 

[HotRodRob]

Stripped the chick and dressed the male for a mockup today. Now for some tedious wheel polishing. I've got some wide whites comin' for it already. I think I'm gonna go black on it now. Maybe some wood accents as well. Back to work I guess.

 

[stretch]

love that chaingaurd on the wheel! where can i get one like that?

 

[HotRodRob]

Haven't had much progress lately but I managed to restore the front hub and paint the front wheel. This is my first wheel build so I hope when it comes to lacing it, it turns out ok. I took detailed pics to reference while lacing so hopefully that helps. I decided to paint the wheels because the chrome was a little too pitted on the spoke face but the sides are fine so I'm going for the red wheels with chrome trim rings look.

hub before

hub after

 

[Breakpetal]

I like how those wheels are looking.

 

[HotRodRob]

Hate to break it to ya, the root beer brown aint stayin'....black is where it's at :wink:

man that chain guard, fenders and pie plate make that bike pop. oh and my favorite color root beer!

 

[HotRodRob]

Well my first attempt at wheel lacing went pretty good. Took me a little while to figure out the spoke sequence but I got it. I even trued it up good on the fork it will be going on. Then I spun it and looked at it from the side and it has a hump. Must have gone too tight on the one side

 

[jandroart]

Killer job on the paint and wheel build!

 

[Pinche]

I was thinking when you said gender swap that you were turning the female bike into a male bike. Not just swapping frames. You say potatoe, I say potato.

 

[HotRodRob]

I was thinking when you said gender swap that you were turning the female bike into a male bike. Not just swapping frames. You say potatoe, I say potato.

Now that you say that I guess the title doesn't really make sense. I guess it's just a parts swap, girls parts on a guy :shock: :shock: whooo totally different forum

 

[Von Stans]

a rat's a rat and this is the bike build area and your still building a bike so i think ya should still leave it in this area of the forum........

 

[HotRodRob]

Killer job on the paint and wheel build!

Thanks man. I always thought lacing a wheel was to complicated but the price my lbs wants to lace a wheel and true it($50) I thought I better learn how myself. Its really not that hard at all.