Hello to all of you out there! This is my first post on this forum (I've been a lurker for a while) and after reading your threads and seeing your builds, this now feels like first few seconds of a head dive into cold water. But, here we go... 
Few months ago I got my hands on this poor frankenmonster bike; it was already a ratrod edition, mashed up with parts from multiple bicycles and all covered in red paint. And when I say all, I mean it was almost dipped in paint! Everything was covered in red; frame, deraileurs, wheels, tires, handlebar, seat, brakes...like when you try to paint assembled bike with a brush. And if something wasn't painted, it was rusted out.
Did I mention that all the bearings and cables were almost blocked with rust?
First second I saw it I got an idea; military build! Although it looked cool in "some sort of Indian or firebrigade red", I'm leaving that look for some other build. During the winter I left the idea to soak in my head, but due to time shortage I didn't have the chance to actually start the project. It just sat there with my regular bike and my first build (which I'm going to present later) for a while.
When I saw a BO 10 contest, it gave me that last push, so I sorted my timesheet and found some time to work on it. Now I'm hoping it will be rather quick build, because I have some spare time on my hands and I want to ride this bike this summer.
First, I'm going to make all the mechanical changes, put everything on the bike to test it out and make it functional before I disassemble it for painting. So to start with it, i tried moving the seat back; it gave me more relaxed riding position, and it became more easier to ride (I copied Electra's Flat foot technology, and combined with Shimano Biopace it gave excellent results).
I want to keep the deraileurs, but I also want to move the shifters from the handlebars, so I took an old friction shifter I had lying around and mounted it to the seattube; I hope this will be a good place for it because this will be a cruiser sort of bike, and I hope I wouldn't have to change the gears so often.
On this picture you can see how I put the seat back; I simply took the handlebar extension, put it on the seatpost and then mounted the seatclamp on the other end of it. It pass the test with a 100 kg driver, so I believe it wil hold.
P.S. Sorry for the low quality pics, I usually work late evenings, so the lighting in my workshop isn't actually set up for photoshooting.
Few months ago I got my hands on this poor frankenmonster bike; it was already a ratrod edition, mashed up with parts from multiple bicycles and all covered in red paint. And when I say all, I mean it was almost dipped in paint! Everything was covered in red; frame, deraileurs, wheels, tires, handlebar, seat, brakes...like when you try to paint assembled bike with a brush. And if something wasn't painted, it was rusted out.
Did I mention that all the bearings and cables were almost blocked with rust?
First second I saw it I got an idea; military build! Although it looked cool in "some sort of Indian or firebrigade red", I'm leaving that look for some other build. During the winter I left the idea to soak in my head, but due to time shortage I didn't have the chance to actually start the project. It just sat there with my regular bike and my first build (which I'm going to present later) for a while.
When I saw a BO 10 contest, it gave me that last push, so I sorted my timesheet and found some time to work on it. Now I'm hoping it will be rather quick build, because I have some spare time on my hands and I want to ride this bike this summer.
First, I'm going to make all the mechanical changes, put everything on the bike to test it out and make it functional before I disassemble it for painting. So to start with it, i tried moving the seat back; it gave me more relaxed riding position, and it became more easier to ride (I copied Electra's Flat foot technology, and combined with Shimano Biopace it gave excellent results).
I want to keep the deraileurs, but I also want to move the shifters from the handlebars, so I took an old friction shifter I had lying around and mounted it to the seattube; I hope this will be a good place for it because this will be a cruiser sort of bike, and I hope I wouldn't have to change the gears so often.
On this picture you can see how I put the seat back; I simply took the handlebar extension, put it on the seatpost and then mounted the seatclamp on the other end of it. It pass the test with a 100 kg driver, so I believe it wil hold.
P.S. Sorry for the low quality pics, I usually work late evenings, so the lighting in my workshop isn't actually set up for photoshooting.
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