Okay, well things started off slower today than anticipated, but I do have some progress to report.
First, I mocked up the older Schwinn springer in its stock configuration, just to see how it'd look. It looks fine, but I'd really love to have the fork angled forward more like my previous mockup.
Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. If try stretching the wheelbase even 3 more inches, then it'll be next to impossible to transport this bike anywhere. My bike rack won't allow it, not how it's built.
I don't know how well you can see it, but there's a bolt at either end of the rack that stop the wheel trays from going any further. And both trays are already close to their maximum distance. That said, now that I think about it, I wonder: if I just took the bolt out on one side, and swapped the wheel trays around so one side had more room than the other, could I make stretched bike just barely fit on my bike rack? Food for thought.
I also pulled some parts out of storage, particularly bearing cups, handlebars and seats. I still think I could use the original bearing cups that are already on the Hornet, but I like having backups, just in case. Quite a few of the frames in this picture below are donating parts to fix this old Schwinn up... including this old Schwinn trike project you might have seen 2 years ago...
Yup, such is the fate of my first Muscle Bike Build Off project, Poison Apple. Ever since last year, all it's really done is donate parts to fix up my other bikes. As much as I hate saying it, I'm still bitter about how poorly that whole fiasco went. Blew hundreds of dollars on parts and labor that went virtually nowhere, kept working on it long after I should have stopped, and to this day, I still don't know for sure how I actually want to build this '79 Schwinn Fair Lady. So it just sits here in storage, gathering dust and losing parts to other bikes.
Today's organ donation? Bearing cups.
I didn't get photos of it, but I also managed to get everything on the crank to come loose thanks once again to my dad's vice at his shop.
While I didn't get a ton of photos today, I plan to have a lot more photos of all the different seats, handlebars and even springer forks mocked up on the bike tomorrow. I've got a few other things I'd like to accomplish tomorrow as well, but I'll just have to wait and see what happens.
First, I mocked up the older Schwinn springer in its stock configuration, just to see how it'd look. It looks fine, but I'd really love to have the fork angled forward more like my previous mockup.
Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. If try stretching the wheelbase even 3 more inches, then it'll be next to impossible to transport this bike anywhere. My bike rack won't allow it, not how it's built.
I don't know how well you can see it, but there's a bolt at either end of the rack that stop the wheel trays from going any further. And both trays are already close to their maximum distance. That said, now that I think about it, I wonder: if I just took the bolt out on one side, and swapped the wheel trays around so one side had more room than the other, could I make stretched bike just barely fit on my bike rack? Food for thought.
I also pulled some parts out of storage, particularly bearing cups, handlebars and seats. I still think I could use the original bearing cups that are already on the Hornet, but I like having backups, just in case. Quite a few of the frames in this picture below are donating parts to fix this old Schwinn up... including this old Schwinn trike project you might have seen 2 years ago...
Yup, such is the fate of my first Muscle Bike Build Off project, Poison Apple. Ever since last year, all it's really done is donate parts to fix up my other bikes. As much as I hate saying it, I'm still bitter about how poorly that whole fiasco went. Blew hundreds of dollars on parts and labor that went virtually nowhere, kept working on it long after I should have stopped, and to this day, I still don't know for sure how I actually want to build this '79 Schwinn Fair Lady. So it just sits here in storage, gathering dust and losing parts to other bikes.
Today's organ donation? Bearing cups.
I didn't get photos of it, but I also managed to get everything on the crank to come loose thanks once again to my dad's vice at his shop.
While I didn't get a ton of photos today, I plan to have a lot more photos of all the different seats, handlebars and even springer forks mocked up on the bike tomorrow. I've got a few other things I'd like to accomplish tomorrow as well, but I'll just have to wait and see what happens.
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