First of all, hello to ya'll out there.....
My name is Japie(Let's say "Jackie" in English) and i'm 37 Y.O.
I'm from Zaandijk, a small town near by Amsterdam in The Netherlands.....
I've got my own bicycle-shop for a little more than a year now in a town near to where i live.
(Japie's Fietsies Assendelft)
I have been looking a couple of few times "over your shoulders" to see all the very VERY! cool bikes on this site.
When i was a little boy my daddy gave me the most beautifull gift a kid could wish on the age of 9......
A! RALEIGH! CHOPPER!
It was a second hand, and the one thing i remember was that the seller had another strange looking bike....
I asked what is was....He jumped on the saddle and yelled "THIS IS A SWINGBIKE! NEVER SEEN ONE!?"
I remembered the cool sideways driving untill the day of today....
The Raleigh ended(as far as i can remember) on the scrapyard after a few years...
I'ts been stuck in my mind forever....
Last year i found the aluminum remake of the Raleigh Chopper about 200km's from my house.....
Did'nt matter, i just had to have it!
(I modified it a little, the remake's don't have the typical bananaseat and "middle-shifter")
My little nephew saw it hang in my shop and yelled "COOOOLLLLL! I WANT ONE!"
So i found another one last month....:
(This was before i restyled it a little for him)
But the Swingbike's kept crossing my mind, i was thinking to build one myself of an old Beachcruiser....
Found this one for just 25 Euro's on the biggest Dutch-buy/sell site Marktplaats.nl:
Had this wheelset stashed for it:
After some welding and flexing it looked like this:
I'ts my first try-out and the way i made it it can't "swing" fully because the chainwheel touches the frame, so i'll need to weld a swing-limiter somewhere, but i like the looks for so far(Yesterday i tried it, and it swings well!)
Aanndd......
As we say here in NL, "the blood goes where it can't" i founded another cool icon from the 70's on the first mentioned website......
The HIGHRISER chopper-bike....
Told my GF, i'm sorry babe, but i just have to have that!!!!
So we jumped in our bus and drove the way for 2,5 hrs.
There was also a 25 yrs. old BMX together with the Higriser.....
Sooo.....
I've got some cool bikes now, these pics are not all of them....
And i was looking around again(Yes, it's one of my hobby's) on the site, GUESS WHAT I FOUND!?!?!?!?!?
That's the real deal, ain't it?!!
I had to drive 4,5 hrs to get it, but did it with love!!
It was in a "ok" state, i've changed some parts already....
Hope you'll like the pix, and if you want i can post some more of my pictures....
As we say over here in NL, GROETEN! (Greetings)
Japie!
My name is Japie(Let's say "Jackie" in English) and i'm 37 Y.O.
I'm from Zaandijk, a small town near by Amsterdam in The Netherlands.....
I've got my own bicycle-shop for a little more than a year now in a town near to where i live.
(Japie's Fietsies Assendelft)
I have been looking a couple of few times "over your shoulders" to see all the very VERY! cool bikes on this site.
When i was a little boy my daddy gave me the most beautifull gift a kid could wish on the age of 9......
A! RALEIGH! CHOPPER!
It was a second hand, and the one thing i remember was that the seller had another strange looking bike....
I asked what is was....He jumped on the saddle and yelled "THIS IS A SWINGBIKE! NEVER SEEN ONE!?"
I remembered the cool sideways driving untill the day of today....
The Raleigh ended(as far as i can remember) on the scrapyard after a few years...
I'ts been stuck in my mind forever....
Last year i found the aluminum remake of the Raleigh Chopper about 200km's from my house.....
Did'nt matter, i just had to have it!
(I modified it a little, the remake's don't have the typical bananaseat and "middle-shifter")
My little nephew saw it hang in my shop and yelled "COOOOLLLLL! I WANT ONE!"
So i found another one last month....:
(This was before i restyled it a little for him)
But the Swingbike's kept crossing my mind, i was thinking to build one myself of an old Beachcruiser....
Found this one for just 25 Euro's on the biggest Dutch-buy/sell site Marktplaats.nl:
Had this wheelset stashed for it:
After some welding and flexing it looked like this:
I'ts my first try-out and the way i made it it can't "swing" fully because the chainwheel touches the frame, so i'll need to weld a swing-limiter somewhere, but i like the looks for so far(Yesterday i tried it, and it swings well!
)Aanndd......
As we say here in NL, "the blood goes where it can't" i founded another cool icon from the 70's on the first mentioned website......
The HIGHRISER chopper-bike....
Told my GF, i'm sorry babe, but i just have to have that!!!!
So we jumped in our bus and drove the way for 2,5 hrs.
There was also a 25 yrs. old BMX together with the Higriser.....
Sooo.....
I've got some cool bikes now, these pics are not all of them....
And i was looking around again(Yes, it's one of my hobby's
) on the site, GUESS WHAT I FOUND!?!?!?!?!?
That's the real deal, ain't it?!!
I had to drive 4,5 hrs to get it, but did it with love!!
It was in a "ok" state, i've changed some parts already....
Hope you'll like the pix, and if you want i can post some more of my pictures....
As we say over here in NL, GROETEN! (Greetings)
Japie!
