If you've seen my builds from the past, you may notice that I'm a sucker for a 5 speed. So, you may have figured out already that I didn't want my daughter to just have a 3 speed, but a 5 speed. Now, a few manufactures produced a 5 speed for girls. But they usually used either a stem mounted lever shifter, or a twist grip shifter. No one used a frame mounted console shifter. Why? My guess: Not enough interest to justify a smaller production order. These shifters would have to be specifically made to fit a girls frame. So, they didn't do, but I will.
I showed you a Huffy single stick console on the frame. I was originally going to modify that console to have it curve with the frame since it sits on top. However, single stick consoles are becoming increasingly hard to find. So, modifying one to fit the curve would mean it would be unusable. So I decided against it.
So here's how my brain works: I didn't want to modify a single stick because the curve would be difficult to get right in the plastic. I just so happen to have a Twin Stick that I have been collecting parts for now for a couple of years. If you know anything about Huffy, you will know that a Twin Stick console is rare, and incredibly expensive if you were lucky enough to have the opportunity to buy one. I once learned of a nice one for sale for $500. I saw a really crusty/rusty one on Ebay for $200. It sold in 15 minutes. So, I was lucky to trade for some broke down guts.
Here's the guts as I got them.
I should have taken a picture of the top, but the two decals were gone. The shifting didn't work, and the brake didn't work either I had to figure everything out.
