Intro
Well hello everyone!
Time to get building again! I'm here to present a project by my buddy and I. It started out as a build which was just a cruiser that was going to be rebuilt a bit. Maybe stretched and a bit lower. But the further the project went the more it became a build from scratch instead. At the point we stand right now it's not exactly much left from the frame we started with, which was one of these badboys. Therefore I thought it would be okey to post it in this category.
Backstory
The cruiser was a bike i bought new about a year ago to be able to get to school every day. But as most bikes it's quite boring unless it's custom. I stumbled across a DIY here on the forum which showed how to widen a rim without welding. It looked like fun so therefore i felt the need to try it. Said and done. It became a 2,5" wide rim with 26x2,125" tire. Really tight fit into the frame but it worked. I've built a matching back rim. Just missing the spokes to be able to put it togheter.
Later on i stretched a 1,75" tire on the rim and painted our car crews name on it "Violent clique"
Be sure to like our facebookpage HERE if you want to see some low cars! I'm quite into cars but when the bankaccount tells me that there's not going to be any more carstuff for the rest of the month i usually get down to ratbikes instead just to keep myself busy. This is my car, as you can se it's pretty low and got some quite wide rims. That's how i think most things on wheels should look. Low and wide!!
Because of my "low and wide"-addiction I would've love to have a real lowrider bike with really wide rims. I've wanted it for a couple of years now but finally I talked one of my friends into helping me (of course the one with the biggest workshop and the best tools). Since my widened rims eventually ended up on another of my builds, I had the blue (quite unused) cruisers frame laying around with no real intention of using it, so that was when we decided to chop that bike up and build something cool of it!
This is the bike who got the widen rims. Quite a bobber
Back to the future
We started the project yesterday. We choped up some of the cruiserframe, then after we've done some chopping we started to talk about what we wanted the bike to look like when it was finished. This is where the projectname comes from. Most of the project so far has been chopping bikes apart and freestyling what we should do with the parts. When we started to build the jig to put the wheels up, We still hadn't come up with any design for the frame. We just knew how wide rims we wanted and how low to the ground we wanted the frame to be!
We started of by cutting out the rear dropouts and put on a wheel so we could build a jig around them. After that the cutting begun for real. We chopped basically every tube on the cruiser, two other bikes and cut a radimentpipe to use as the rear swing.
Puzzles
Now there was not much left of any of the bikes we had. But we got a lot of tubes so, time for some puzzling. At this point we knew quite well how we wanted the frame to turn out. Now it was just a question of getting everything straight. As we didn't feel the urge to spend a lot of time building on a jig, we eyeballed most of the bike to be honest.
As you can se here below, not much of the original bike is left. Here we only had the top and head tube left that we where planning to use. We extended the toptube backwards and then measured the tubes for the rear swing, cut them and welded them on.
First time on wheels
We did a quick fitting of the rear swing and rebuilt the original fork just to get the front wheel where it's supposed to be when everything's done. We're planning on building a triplefork eventually. This was just a first mockup, so we could put the bike down on the ground and be able to see if it needed to be longer, shorter, higher, angled up or down etc. We ended up extended the top tube a bit forward.
"Round is also a shape"
As i said, at this point we knew how we wanted the frame to look. Therefore we needed to bend some tubes and as the tube didn't fit very well in the tubebender we created our own. Borrowed the idea from another buildthread i've seen here. Worked really good.
After bending the tubes and welded both them and the bottom tube to the rest of the frame we took some smaler tubes from the original cruiser and created the lower part of the rear swing. It came out with a real nice flow to it!
This is it... for now...
This is how far we've come til todays date. We got the frame mocked up. Next on the schedule we're going to put the bb on there and after that, building a fork. Then of to the wheels which are going to be something really special if it all goes as planned. The rear swing's gossiping about how wide the wheels are gonna be. Actually it will be quite a tight fit back there
Hope you guys who check in here liked what you've seen so far and that you will also drop a comment letting us know what you think!!
last but not least a BIG shoutout to my friend "Beetle" for helping me building this thing!
Well hello everyone!
Time to get building again! I'm here to present a project by my buddy and I. It started out as a build which was just a cruiser that was going to be rebuilt a bit. Maybe stretched and a bit lower. But the further the project went the more it became a build from scratch instead. At the point we stand right now it's not exactly much left from the frame we started with, which was one of these badboys. Therefore I thought it would be okey to post it in this category.
Backstory
The cruiser was a bike i bought new about a year ago to be able to get to school every day. But as most bikes it's quite boring unless it's custom. I stumbled across a DIY here on the forum which showed how to widen a rim without welding. It looked like fun so therefore i felt the need to try it. Said and done. It became a 2,5" wide rim with 26x2,125" tire. Really tight fit into the frame but it worked. I've built a matching back rim. Just missing the spokes to be able to put it togheter.
Later on i stretched a 1,75" tire on the rim and painted our car crews name on it "Violent clique"
Be sure to like our facebookpage HERE if you want to see some low cars! I'm quite into cars but when the bankaccount tells me that there's not going to be any more carstuff for the rest of the month i usually get down to ratbikes instead just to keep myself busy. This is my car, as you can se it's pretty low and got some quite wide rims. That's how i think most things on wheels should look. Low and wide!!
Because of my "low and wide"-addiction I would've love to have a real lowrider bike with really wide rims. I've wanted it for a couple of years now but finally I talked one of my friends into helping me (of course the one with the biggest workshop and the best tools). Since my widened rims eventually ended up on another of my builds, I had the blue (quite unused) cruisers frame laying around with no real intention of using it, so that was when we decided to chop that bike up and build something cool of it!
This is the bike who got the widen rims. Quite a bobber
Back to the future
We started the project yesterday. We choped up some of the cruiserframe, then after we've done some chopping we started to talk about what we wanted the bike to look like when it was finished. This is where the projectname comes from. Most of the project so far has been chopping bikes apart and freestyling what we should do with the parts. When we started to build the jig to put the wheels up, We still hadn't come up with any design for the frame. We just knew how wide rims we wanted and how low to the ground we wanted the frame to be!
We started of by cutting out the rear dropouts and put on a wheel so we could build a jig around them. After that the cutting begun for real. We chopped basically every tube on the cruiser, two other bikes and cut a radimentpipe to use as the rear swing.
Puzzles
Now there was not much left of any of the bikes we had. But we got a lot of tubes so, time for some puzzling. At this point we knew quite well how we wanted the frame to turn out. Now it was just a question of getting everything straight. As we didn't feel the urge to spend a lot of time building on a jig, we eyeballed most of the bike to be honest.
As you can se here below, not much of the original bike is left. Here we only had the top and head tube left that we where planning to use. We extended the toptube backwards and then measured the tubes for the rear swing, cut them and welded them on.
First time on wheels
We did a quick fitting of the rear swing and rebuilt the original fork just to get the front wheel where it's supposed to be when everything's done. We're planning on building a triplefork eventually. This was just a first mockup, so we could put the bike down on the ground and be able to see if it needed to be longer, shorter, higher, angled up or down etc. We ended up extended the top tube a bit forward.
"Round is also a shape"
As i said, at this point we knew how we wanted the frame to look. Therefore we needed to bend some tubes and as the tube didn't fit very well in the tubebender we created our own. Borrowed the idea from another buildthread i've seen here. Worked really good.
After bending the tubes and welded both them and the bottom tube to the rest of the frame we took some smaler tubes from the original cruiser and created the lower part of the rear swing. It came out with a real nice flow to it!
This is it... for now...
This is how far we've come til todays date. We got the frame mocked up. Next on the schedule we're going to put the bb on there and after that, building a fork. Then of to the wheels which are going to be something really special if it all goes as planned. The rear swing's gossiping about how wide the wheels are gonna be. Actually it will be quite a tight fit back there
Hope you guys who check in here liked what you've seen so far and that you will also drop a comment letting us know what you think!!
last but not least a BIG shoutout to my friend "Beetle" for helping me building this thing!
