Bike for the wife

[65rat]

Ok after the last build off me and the wife went on a bike ride . I got out the Spring Board and her 24" Hollywood. First thing she says (How come yours is all shiney and mine looks like crap?) So I offer to buy her a new bike at LBS. She says no and we go on and star the ride. About 20 min in the ride she hears me shifting gears. She says what the heck is that? (I said thats my gears)
So any how I'm building her a bike now. Here it is. A buddy from work gave me a 61 24" hollywood and a 26" middle weight girls schwinn. I'm redoing the 24" hollywood cause she's only 5'1"
Fresh paint, Laced up a 3 speed coaster brake (got from Udalcustombikes) and am going to have a local guy from the Coasters pinstripe it for me :mrgreen: This is the one she rides now. But it was identical to the one I started with and I'm using some bobbed fenders off of a western flyer.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

I love orange over spray all over everything. Nice color. She should be happy when your done, unless some of her stuff got the overspray. Well you know what they say ...you have to break an egg to make an omlet. :lol:

 

[aka_locojoe]

Looking good. The orange is a good color.

 

[65rat]

Oh yes everything in the garage is orange. Even my 37 Plymouth now. I had to paint and sand it about 5 times. kept getting a run here and there. It's cold around here. Tonight I went and turned on 2 heaters for about 3 hours and the paint went on real nice this time. Used Acrylic enamel. I blasted all parts before I started. The wife doesn't know this will probably be as much as a new bike, but it will be way cooler :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Sometimes if you take your paint and parts inside a warm house ,and then run out and spray real quick you can get pretty good results in a cold area.

 

[bean]

Sometimes if you take your paint and parts inside a warm house ,and then run out and spray real quick you can get pretty good results in a cold area.

A similar trick is to sit the rattle cans in a bucket/sink of warm water for 15 -20 minutes or so....comes out of the can neal nice!

 

[Speed2XS]

A similar trick is to sit the rattle cans in a bucket/sink of warm water for 15 -20 minutes or so....comes out of the can neal nice!

+1

 

[65rat]

Re: Bike for the wife Sneek Peek

Got the fenders fork and guard back tonight

 

[udallcustombikes]

Did that hub clean up good? Who did your pin striping?

 

[shaggyevil]

The pinstriping looks sweet!

Shaggy

 

[65rat]

Ya it looks good. Harry from the Coasters Did the pinstriping

 

[rgallen]

Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, I like Orange. Looks great, and I like the striping.

 

[aka_locojoe]

Ya it looks good. Harry from the Coasters Did the pinstriping

Harry? Can't think of a Harry.
Looks good.

 

[450redrider]

Ya it looks good. Harry from the Coasters Did the pinstriping

Harry? Can't think of a Harry.
Looks good.

couldn't get the link to work right but this is the guy he's talking about
http://locojoe.com/coasters/pages/pub_p ... erendipity[image]=4054

 

[65rat]

Harry is the guy that was riding Josh's swing bike in the Christmas parade. By the way I have to work tomorrow so I cant make the parade :x

 

[Ratfink1962]

Nice Job!!

And yeah Im gonna have to get ahold of Harry, got some work for him!

Anybody know how to contact him?

 

[65rat]

He should be at parade tomorrow . Ask Cody to show him too you.

 

[Ratfink1962]

Well.... Im not gonna be there.

Any chance he has an email? I wanna see if he will come hawk his striping at the Swap meet.

 

[Bicyclerick]

Looking good, Can't wait to see it complete.

 

[greg66]

NICE BIKE.