I don't know how, but somehow I got drawn into a SwingBike wormhole last night, that reached it's culminating point through various tube videos at this thread here: https://ratrodbikes.com/threads/swing-bike-gallery.31549/
It itched me that hard to build one of these that I went scoring the local classifieds (ebay-kleinanzeigen) to hunt for suitable project bikes for an affordable price. I ended up spending 35 € (15 for the purple and 20 for the red) in total on these two bikes today:
When I picked up the red one it had a nice extra on the rear rack, that totally made it worth the money spent on it:
No Brooks, but It will look nice on another project sometime...
This will be a quick one (hopefully) as I have only four days time until the wife and the kids come back on Friday and the living room has to look like this had never happened...![Giggle :giggle: :giggle:](/forum/styles/fusion/xenforo/smilies/giggle.gif)
I'll try to achieve my goal without welding but there is also a plan B...
First order of business will be to strip them down to the bare frame...
It itched me that hard to build one of these that I went scoring the local classifieds (ebay-kleinanzeigen) to hunt for suitable project bikes for an affordable price. I ended up spending 35 € (15 for the purple and 20 for the red) in total on these two bikes today:
![IMG_20230326_193050044_copy.jpg IMG_20230326_193050044_copy.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ratrodbikes/data/attach/227/227369-IMG-20230326-193050044-copy.jpg)
When I picked up the red one it had a nice extra on the rear rack, that totally made it worth the money spent on it:
![IMG_20230326_193059117_copy.jpg IMG_20230326_193059117_copy.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ratrodbikes/data/attach/227/227370-IMG-20230326-193059117-copy.jpg)
No Brooks, but It will look nice on another project sometime...
This will be a quick one (hopefully) as I have only four days time until the wife and the kids come back on Friday and the living room has to look like this had never happened...
![Giggle :giggle: :giggle:](/forum/styles/fusion/xenforo/smilies/giggle.gif)
I'll try to achieve my goal without welding but there is also a plan B...
First order of business will be to strip them down to the bare frame...
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