hawthorn springer and 70s style chopper bike

[dragn91]

Found these at the scrap pile today at work im probably gona rob the seat and sissybar for my huffy rail and build the hawthorn. Its a skiptooth bike with beehive style springer I've never seen before.

 

[dragn91]

Anyone know how I have can tighten a front wheel on this springer or just leave it loose? Had no front wheel when I grabbed it. I paid 30need for both and picked them up at lunch time made another run after lunch saw a guy tossing a girls monarch out of his truck spray painted white but has good rims and tires so ill probably grab that after work

 

[user 135]

That chopper is too cool.

 

[Outlaw90]

those are cool. man 30 bucks seems pretty good too...

 

[Mugen_Stumpo]

the chopper is great :shock:

 

[Slingshot Dude]

you have a rail? lets see it! :mrgreen:

 

[dragn91]

Here's the rail its a single speed but all original tires are wore but I paid 25
bucks for it the chrome should clean up good I put air in the tires and used a whole can of pb blaster on the chain and now the rear spokes are loose from me pulling wheelies so much the orange metalflake seat should look better than the one on it its bad

 

[Slingshot Dude]

Here's the rail its a single speed but all original tires are wore but I paid 25
bucks for it the chrome should clean up good I put air in the tires and used a whole can of pb blaster on the chain and now the rear spokes are loose from me pulling wheelies so much the orange metalflake seat should look better than the one on it its bad

i would give ya $45 for it! :mrgreen:

 

[SCHWINNRAY69]

SCORE! :mrgreen: Awesome finds :wink:

 

[Pappy]

Is it just me or is no one seeing what appears to be a decent set of Schwinn Ramshorn handle bars on the "chopper".Pull 'em off and look in the center where the goose neck clamps them...if they are Schwinn they are stamped...mine are...Pappy 8)

 

[scott brownsey]

very sweet hawthorne chopper is baad to the bone and im not into lil bikes i cant ride but i dig that 1

 

[Murray-Eliminator]

Is it just me or is no one seeing what appears to be a decent set of Schwinn Ramshorn handle bars on the "chopper".Pull 'em off and look in the center where the goose neck clamps them...if they are Schwinn they are stamped...mine are...Pappy 8)

Those are the taller ramshorn bars, not the one's schwinn used. but still very kool. And that bike is a perfect exsample of 70's custom built Choppers.

 

['48 Hawthorne]

Those springers are awesome. They require some yanking and a bad word or two to get the wheel on. Here's a pic of mine. If ya need a better one I can get one for ya. The axle floats in the arms for the spring and the tabs go on the axle and on the front of the dropout and provide stability. Cheers, Jordan

 

[jaydub]

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The front fork looks bent to me...?

 

[dragn91]

Thanks for the pic and yea the forks are bent been meaning to fix them lol

 

[kingfish254]

I have the same bee hive springer on my FlexLiner 7 build.
Did you ever figure out the front fork?
Are there any slotted washers of something along those lines around the axle against the inside of the chrome fork?
I am trying to see how to tighten the wheel down without locking the springer function.