One day while running errands last summer I noticed the antique mall/flea market across the street from the office was having an outside yard sale with what looked like an old bike in the middle. I stopped for closer inspection and found a late 50's middleweight J.C Higgins for $50. I only had $43 after running errands & she accepted! Having 24" tires it's a bit small for me at 6' to ride comfortably so the perfect candidate for a Pig Bike!!
All it needs is a few parts swapped or removed. I have plenty of handlebars & banana seats but not an early seat before Schwinn started selling the Stingray. I happened to take a peek on CL and saw a girls Murray with the perfect seat about a week later....
I was also lucky enough to find a fat rear tire at a shop with big inventory shortly after finding the bike. A Maxxis Hookworm in 24"x2.5" to stuff under a middleweight fender out back. (No pic yet. Will include with update later today.) May require cutting. Or may go fenderless.![Man shrugging :man_shrugging: 🤷♂️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png)
The only issue & what has caused me to wait so long to get started is the early Bendix hub (1946-1961) may have issues. I finally confirmed this morning that I have a parts hub that will work if it's ok. So this is the starting point in just a few minutes.....
Since I'm getting a late start & no big plans for Christmas I will try to finish this over the next few days. Everything will be overhauled, cleaned & detailed. Nothing crazy with this one other that trying to stuff a fat tire under the back fender. Should be fun!
![IMG_20210807_134057381_HDR.jpg IMG_20210807_134057381_HDR.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ratrodbikes/data/attach/220/220448-IMG-20210807-134057381-HDR.jpg)
![IMG_20210807_134035704_HDR.jpg IMG_20210807_134035704_HDR.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ratrodbikes/data/attach/220/220450-IMG-20210807-134035704-HDR.jpg)
![IMG_20210808_144239944.jpg IMG_20210808_144239944.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ratrodbikes/data/attach/220/220451-IMG-20210808-144239944.jpg)
All it needs is a few parts swapped or removed. I have plenty of handlebars & banana seats but not an early seat before Schwinn started selling the Stingray. I happened to take a peek on CL and saw a girls Murray with the perfect seat about a week later....
![IMG_20210915_131729810_HDR.jpg IMG_20210915_131729810_HDR.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ratrodbikes/data/attach/220/220447-IMG-20210915-131729810-HDR.jpg)
![IMG_20210915_131806431_HDR.jpg IMG_20210915_131806431_HDR.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ratrodbikes/data/attach/220/220452-IMG-20210915-131806431-HDR.jpg)
![IMG_20210915_131838065.jpg IMG_20210915_131838065.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ratrodbikes/data/attach/220/220449-IMG-20210915-131838065.jpg)
I was also lucky enough to find a fat rear tire at a shop with big inventory shortly after finding the bike. A Maxxis Hookworm in 24"x2.5" to stuff under a middleweight fender out back. (No pic yet. Will include with update later today.) May require cutting. Or may go fenderless.
![Man shrugging :man_shrugging: 🤷♂️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png)
The only issue & what has caused me to wait so long to get started is the early Bendix hub (1946-1961) may have issues. I finally confirmed this morning that I have a parts hub that will work if it's ok. So this is the starting point in just a few minutes.....
Since I'm getting a late start & no big plans for Christmas I will try to finish this over the next few days. Everything will be overhauled, cleaned & detailed. Nothing crazy with this one other that trying to stuff a fat tire under the back fender. Should be fun!
![IMG_20211219_185031768.jpg IMG_20211219_185031768.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ratrodbikes/data/attach/220/220453-IMG-20211219-185031768.jpg)