(MBBO Class 1) MiniMuscle

Terry66 · Sep 25, 2014

Picked up this little brute for my grandson. I build a 12" Schwinn Lil Tiger for my older grandson and was pretty happy with how it turned out. This one is an early 70s 12" Western Flyer. Since I am doing the build anyway, I might as well enter it into MBBO 2014. It is going to be a pretty basic build, so nothing too crazy. I also have two '66 Huffy 20" muscle bikes in pieces scattered around the garage, so if this goes well, I might enter another.

Cool thing about these 12" muscle bikes is that they can sit right on the workbench.

Stripped it all down. Not sure on the paint. Leaning towards a metalflake purple, but we'll see.

My favorite part of the bike is this awesome curved sissy bar. Need to find a good and inexpensive plater to get it rechromed.

LukeTheJoker · Sep 25, 2014

Glad you decided to jump in Terry!
Great little bike, love that bent sissy bar!

Luke.

Jamie825 · Sep 25, 2014

Welcome to the fun I am glad to see someone doing a small bike like this good luck can't wait go see this when it's done

Ichoptop · Sep 25, 2014

Inexpensive plater? They don't exist. Powder coat has done pretty nice remedies now days.

CRASH · Sep 25, 2014

Welcome Terry!

My chromer in town is pretty reasonable, but your cost in shipping would probably offset any savings you would see.

Terry66 · Sep 26, 2014

Thanks guys...My local chrome guy isn't too bad on prices, so we'll see. A friend who owns Links-n-Kinks bike shop does some amazing powder coating, so that might be an option. If I go that direction, I'll do something like flat charcoal bike with all the chrome in a gloss black?

CRASH · Sep 26, 2014

The powdercoating problem I've run into is lack of color options and no fades... not unless I want to spend an extraordinary amount of money. So I've stuck to paint so far.