My old tandem needs some love, those red wheels are needed elsewhere..
She'll look lots better w silver or chrome wheels and white walls:
She'll look lots better w silver or chrome wheels and white walls:
Daisy daisy Redux
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Grabbed some troxel seats from eBay:
These as well:
These as well:
Chainguard are pretty much unicorn poop rare, especially the earlier,curvier
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Here's a side view:
I had a idea, what if we made one outta some pretty wood,it'd definitely look luxurious if it has lots of clear coat. My landlords a finish carpenter,he's gonna make me one!
I'm gonna extend it's lines to the rear of the frame, like this:
I'm gonna extend it's lines to the rear of the frame, like this:
I think with white walls,seats and grips and chrome fenders, the custom wooden chainguard will potentially take it to another level!
Trying two sets of bars:
Both place your hands in pretty much the same position,surprisingly
Also found some vintage looking brown walls, they could really work with a wooden chain guard:
That's enough brainstorming for today, got to batten down the hatches for tonight's storm.
Perhaps these for the win:
Got the bars off:
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Here's the bars on:
Sparkle grips to match the Troxel seats that are in the mail:
I figure let's see whitewalls on the aluminum Electra wheels:
I like how I might get away with the white fork,and the ducktail chrome fenders will cover the slightly mis matched whitewalls, hopefully..
I'm between rainstorms, pardon the quick mock up, (no fender braces), but I believe I may be on the home stretch:
Looks like I've a break in the rain,so I popped on the Troxel seats:
