Hey guys. I've been on the boards for a bit, mainly just lurking and looking at other builds. I've built a couple bikes/restored some over the past 4-5 years. Started with fixed gears then worked my way to cruisers. Anyways here is the latest one I'm working on for my girlfriend for her Christmas present.
Picked the bike up the first week of November, this is what it looked like.
Tore the bike apart and then started with the steel wool removing the rust. This is the inner part of the fender, before on the left after on the right.
Put some paint stripper on the tanks, rear fender, and chain guard. (If it was my bike I would have left it like this and just added the lettering and decals and gone for the rat look)
A shot of some of the rust, not too bad.
Here is the after shot
Original chrome is in good condition
All primed up and ready for paint
Here is the color.
Got started on the rims next, before on the left, after on the right
POSTMAN ARRIVED!!! Troxel saddle, got it for a great deal on ebay
Grips
Started to put the frame back together
Looks like a bike almost
Rims all cleaned up with new grease and bearings. Topped it off with some white walls
***Ran into a little problem with the paint, tried to put the accent colors on and lines didn't come out as clean as I wanted. I ended up going to a local vinyl shop to get things done. In turn decided to sand off the white that was on there, when I tried to paint back over it the area where the white was crinkled so I had to take it back to bare metal. As of now the chain guard and rear fender have primer again and the tanks have the color on them. Will update within the next few days.
Picked the bike up the first week of November, this is what it looked like.
Tore the bike apart and then started with the steel wool removing the rust. This is the inner part of the fender, before on the left after on the right.
Put some paint stripper on the tanks, rear fender, and chain guard. (If it was my bike I would have left it like this and just added the lettering and decals and gone for the rat look)
A shot of some of the rust, not too bad.
Here is the after shot
Original chrome is in good condition
All primed up and ready for paint
Here is the color.
Got started on the rims next, before on the left, after on the right
POSTMAN ARRIVED!!! Troxel saddle, got it for a great deal on ebay
Grips
Started to put the frame back together
Looks like a bike almost
Rims all cleaned up with new grease and bearings. Topped it off with some white walls
***Ran into a little problem with the paint, tried to put the accent colors on and lines didn't come out as clean as I wanted. I ended up going to a local vinyl shop to get things done. In turn decided to sand off the white that was on there, when I tried to paint back over it the area where the white was crinkled so I had to take it back to bare metal. As of now the chain guard and rear fender have primer again and the tanks have the color on them. Will update within the next few days.
