Bike from the Dead's Mockup Mash

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Bead diameter is the important number. Not all 26 x 13/8 are the same tires

How do you find the bead size on tires and wheels? I would imagine tires have it marked on the sidewall somewhere, but most older wheels don't say what the bead size is, or they're too rusty to tell anyway.

 

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Took advantage of the cooler weather between yesterday and today to continue the Mockup Mash on two step-thrus!

I didn't make a ton of progress until late last night, as most of the parts I threw on my prewar Monark that day just weren't working. It wasn't until I threw some recently-acquired parts on that I saw the potential to turn this bike into something wild. I threw on this iron cross chainring, some funky chopper bars, and one of my nicer saddles to go along with my lowrider springer fork, and I got to say, I'm digging this! It's weird, but I've wanted to build something weird for a while now, and this bike just might be it!

I did play around with some other handlebars just to see if I had something better than those other bars, but nothing really meshed as well with that seat as the ones I had mocked up last night.

I still wanted to try one more thing. The ape hangers were a bit too close to my other seat, so I mocked up a banana seat to see how that'd look. I like it! Gives it more of a traditional lowrider bike vibe! That said, I don't have a lot of good banana seats in stock, and I don't want to go out and buy a new one at this time. I definitely think this look is worth coming back to, and it'd be easy enough to swap the seat and handlebars to give it a whole nother attitude.

 

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I also spent a little time today mocking up my recently-obtained curved seat tube Elgin. I don't know if I'll go this way or not, but it was fun to play around with either way!