Bare with me, as I walk you through how I decided on my next build. You can skip to the pics if you're impatient.
I have a notebook full of drawings, ideas, and designs. Dozens of good possible builds.
I have a smaller list of builds on deck, a few bikes that may be the next I'll start, usually kept to about three.
To narrow it even further, there are two that I'm very excited about in particular.
And yet, I'm sweeping them all off to the side for something that has come into my head as necessary. See, a couple of recent rides, mainly in the Bay Area with its hills and bridges, has finally revealed a need to me. Early this year, I finished the "ultimate comfort bike" for my wife. Her ideal bike for those long, comfortable rides. But I've never built one of those for myself. A nice stretched, multi-speed bike with good brakes. Here's the one I built for my wife:
All of my bikes are single speed, heavy, and some are just plain impractical. Fun, but impractical. This one will be multi-speed using a 3 speed NEXXUS in a Worksman wheelset I got here with a front drum brake. It'll have a nice stretch. It'll have a springer. But this is me, so it'll still feature some cool vintage parts and other cool touches. I'm not going completely clean.
I got this chair from my Father-in-Law for one reason:
The curve of the arms:
The original idea for the chair was to make a frame using all of its parts, but that's now out, as I just use the part I really wanted to use. So that chair arm is the start of my frame. I'll scratch build it from there, and the other essential piece will be the 1948 Harley Davidson motorcycle "rubber band" front end I bought from ebay a while ago. I'll be doing some mods to it, and making it a proper girder fork. Here are some of the parts laid over my regular Science frame template:
Parts list:
-Worksman heavy duty wheelset
-BOA-G tires
-motorcycle girder front end
-motorcycle handlebars
-Pensive Works revolver drops
-lawn chair pieces
-3 piece cranks
-other assorted parts from off of my shelves
I have a notebook full of drawings, ideas, and designs. Dozens of good possible builds.
I have a smaller list of builds on deck, a few bikes that may be the next I'll start, usually kept to about three.
To narrow it even further, there are two that I'm very excited about in particular.
And yet, I'm sweeping them all off to the side for something that has come into my head as necessary. See, a couple of recent rides, mainly in the Bay Area with its hills and bridges, has finally revealed a need to me. Early this year, I finished the "ultimate comfort bike" for my wife. Her ideal bike for those long, comfortable rides. But I've never built one of those for myself. A nice stretched, multi-speed bike with good brakes. Here's the one I built for my wife:
All of my bikes are single speed, heavy, and some are just plain impractical. Fun, but impractical. This one will be multi-speed using a 3 speed NEXXUS in a Worksman wheelset I got here with a front drum brake. It'll have a nice stretch. It'll have a springer. But this is me, so it'll still feature some cool vintage parts and other cool touches. I'm not going completely clean.
I got this chair from my Father-in-Law for one reason:
The curve of the arms:
The original idea for the chair was to make a frame using all of its parts, but that's now out, as I just use the part I really wanted to use. So that chair arm is the start of my frame. I'll scratch build it from there, and the other essential piece will be the 1948 Harley Davidson motorcycle "rubber band" front end I bought from ebay a while ago. I'll be doing some mods to it, and making it a proper girder fork. Here are some of the parts laid over my regular Science frame template:
Parts list:
-Worksman heavy duty wheelset
-BOA-G tires
-motorcycle girder front end
-motorcycle handlebars
-Pensive Works revolver drops
-lawn chair pieces
-3 piece cranks
-other assorted parts from off of my shelves
sometimes comfort is king.
