A bit of a last minute decision to join the buildoff, all my stuff is hidden under building supplies and tools, my workshop is full of moving boxes and timber flooring, our house still needs a huge amount of work and my wife just got out of hospital... Sounds like the perfect time to jump in! 
First off to dig out parts, somewhere under this should be most of them:
Well, I found some... The rest must still be at my folks place?
Anyway, found enough to try figure out what to build, I was thinking a trike with a detroit style locking rear end like the Flip The Script trike I built a while back, https://ratrodbikes.com/threads/mbbo-05-class-2-¡ʇdᴉɹɔs-ǝɥʇ-dᴉlℲ-trike-finished-thread-sold-to-finance-exciting-new-venture.101247/
But I am missing a hub from my set up, I could build a new one, but, once again, my lathe is not set up and I don't have a work bench...
I did find a racing slick though that I had put aside for a future build:
That takes care of the rear, and gives me a direction, something I have been thinking about since reading @bckwoodz thread about finding an UncleStretch build: https://ratrodbikes.com/threads/new-member-saved-an-uncle-stretch-from-a-scrap-pile.118244/
Now imagine that style of cruiser but with fat car tires...
Off to the local dumpshop to find a front tire candidate... I could use bicycle tires, but the thorns and goatheads around here are quite ridiculous, so sticking with automotive/motorcycle is safer...
Found this temporary spare tire, that actually looks decent, unlike most of them, and actually quite light...
A quick mock up:
Yep, that might work.
Found another front wheel option in my parts pile:
Hmmmm,
nope, not liking that. So we will stick with the temporary spare for the moment.
Need steel tube to make a frame and forks, easy to get straight tubing, but harder to get curved, and my old suppliers are 800km away, and I have not found anyone here local that will deal with a small hobbyist, they usually deal with the mines, so using recycled tubing will be the way to go, lets check the scrap pile:
Maybe there will be enough there to make it work, depends if I can get the right curves out of those bed frames...?
Time to do some drawing...
First off to dig out parts, somewhere under this should be most of them:
Well, I found some... The rest must still be at my folks place?
Anyway, found enough to try figure out what to build, I was thinking a trike with a detroit style locking rear end like the Flip The Script trike I built a while back, https://ratrodbikes.com/threads/mbbo-05-class-2-¡ʇdᴉɹɔs-ǝɥʇ-dᴉlℲ-trike-finished-thread-sold-to-finance-exciting-new-venture.101247/
But I am missing a hub from my set up, I could build a new one, but, once again, my lathe is not set up and I don't have a work bench...
I did find a racing slick though that I had put aside for a future build:
That takes care of the rear, and gives me a direction, something I have been thinking about since reading @bckwoodz thread about finding an UncleStretch build: https://ratrodbikes.com/threads/new-member-saved-an-uncle-stretch-from-a-scrap-pile.118244/
Now imagine that style of cruiser but with fat car tires...
Off to the local dumpshop to find a front tire candidate... I could use bicycle tires, but the thorns and goatheads around here are quite ridiculous, so sticking with automotive/motorcycle is safer...
Found this temporary spare tire, that actually looks decent, unlike most of them, and actually quite light...
A quick mock up:
Yep, that might work.
Found another front wheel option in my parts pile:
Hmmmm,
nope, not liking that. So we will stick with the temporary spare for the moment.Need steel tube to make a frame and forks, easy to get straight tubing, but harder to get curved, and my old suppliers are 800km away, and I have not found anyone here local that will deal with a small hobbyist, they usually deal with the mines, so using recycled tubing will be the way to go, lets check the scrap pile:
Maybe there will be enough there to make it work, depends if I can get the right curves out of those bed frames...?
Time to do some drawing...
. I’m sure they would have something to turn steam pipe oval for you. Or is the steampipe to fill the speedholes
