Gravedancer

[IronDio]

Re: Chimera Chopper Project

Great result,dude! Any future plans for a wider rim in the back?

Thanks! I originally planned on one, but I like it with the 26 on there for now.
My goal was to use as many parts as possible off of the 3 bikes I started with and spend as little as possible. I ended up getting a FREE huffy mtn bike which donated the tires/wheels and the brake, used a leftover cable from a kit, and the brake lever off a Raleigh mtn bike. The primer was leftover as well. The ONLY money spent that was SPECIFICALLY for this bike was roughly $16 on the chain and the homemade chain adjusters. So, this was a pretty darn cheap build!
Here it is as a moving and stopping bicycle...

I have some more details to add yet, but, this may be it....or it may tell me to paint it...we'll just have to see what my monster desires

 

[wimpy]

Re: Chimera Chopper: Now with Stop AND Go

One thing this monster desires,is to roam the streets. Have fun and lots of safe miles.

 

[IronDio]

Re: Chimera Chopper: Now with Stop AND Go

I converted the headlight to LED. First time I used an angle grinder to cut the lens off of a glass sealed beam...worked surprisingly well! No pics yet, will post finished pics soon

 

[Hogaboom]

Re: Chimera Chopper: Now with Stop AND Go

Looks really good. This gives me an idea. Thanks for posting.

 

[IronDio]

Re: Chimera Chopper: Dunzees

This was the first bike done under my new moniker "Southwest 6th Customs and Classics"...trying to get some people together for rides and stuff in my area. And this was the first to wear the logo...

 

[IronDio]

Re: Chimera Chopper: Changes...the Green Monster

So, I finally ordered a wheel to do a 24x3 rear tire. Then decided to make a few other changes...

...not sure how far I'm going with this, but I think these are improvements and are moving it in the direction I had originally imagined for this build

 

[IronDio]

Re: Chimera: Gettign There...the Green Monster

Swapped the chain ring with a Schwinn one (much nicer looking than the one from the Empire), and made some filler panels out of license plates. These were newer plates, so I hit them with a worn out flap disc on my grinder, soaked them in a mix of apple cider vinegar, coffee grounds, and steel wool. than smeared the mixture on them after a day and dried them with a heat gun...they look like I dug them out of a junkyard now....PERFECT!

Almost finished now...I ordered some spikes from studsandspikes.com that I might add. And, I want to seal in my faux finish on the panels and apply some age to the fasteners for the panels.

 

[IronDio]

Re: Chimera: Getting There...the Green Monster

put on some SERIOUS apes tonight...

 

[IronDio]

Re: Chimera: Getting There...the Green Monster

Snapped a couple of pics at lunch and played with photobucket's edit tools...

 

[IronDio]

Re: Chimera: Getting There...the Green Monster

Well, I think this bike needs a new name...it's changed...it's got a different vibe to it now.
Its new name is Gravedancer

 

[iven]

looks good man

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

What are you doing with the breeze fenders? Aha I'm restoring a 67 breeze deluxe and need fenders... Are you looking to sell them?

 

[IronDio]

What are you doing with the breeze fenders? Aha I'm restoring a 67 breeze deluxe and need fenders... Are you looking to sell them?

No plans for them. When I get a chance, I'll pm you with some pics of them. If I remember right, there might have been a repair on one of them, but like I said, I'll get you some pics.

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

What are you doing with the breeze fenders? Aha I'm restoring a 67 breeze deluxe and need fenders... Are you looking to sell them?

No plans for them. When I get a chance, I'll pm you with some pics of them. If I remember right, there might have been a repair on one of them, but like I said, I'll get you some pics.

Okay thanks. It'd be greatly appreciated!

 

[outskirtscustoms]

That looks awesome, makes me miss my welder.

 

[IronDio]

^^^2012 RRB Photo Contest entry^^^

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

Sick!!!! Came out really nice

 

[IronDio]

Thanks for the compliments! I need to get some detail shots of it up soon. I liked this bike before, but I love it now!
The pics were fun, my wife was the photographer, and I was the "lighting engineer"...we didn't want to use flash, and I wanted a warm, yellowish look on the bike. We went out to a local cemetery and started shooting. I was hoping to get more headstones in the background, but the shots that had them were either too lit up, or the background was too cluttered...(I'm kind of picky). I think we nailed the look I was going for, kind of like an old monster movie, but stripped way down...let the bike tell the story.

Fun "accident", the red on the rear rim is from the bike's taillight...but the red glow on the chain ring is from my truck's taillights. I left it running to power the ground lights...kind of makes it look bloody or something. love it!

 

[Gold Street Customs]

Cool build !!!

 

[X-RAY]

maybe i missed it, but what did u plug the old bb hole with, freeze plugs? looks great, would like to see a pic of a rider on it.