Heres a few pics of my first ground up build. It's a 1980 frame that I had powder coated and added some goodies to it.
It's rebirth starts with a nice stripping to check for rust damage.
Then I had the frame and original forks powder coated with a color called Misty Midnight. It's a midnight blue color with cobalt flake added to it. It looks almost black till the sun hits it.
Here's the decals I purchased for it. I decided to make it a knockoff Corvette, since me and my father our both into Vette cars.
Snagged the 44 tooth sprocket of my schwinn pro stock 3 bmx 20" bike, and the super long cranks(180mm) off my 24" bmx cruiser and installed a blue chain.
Couple pics of the bike. Rideable, but not complete yet. Notice the big butt no stress schwinn seat. I found it at Wal-Mart for $10 thought it might look cool, but it's a little to wide for my skinny butt so it will probably go.
My 13 year old taking it for a test ride. Man this thing rides smoooooth!
Now all I got to do is get the waterslide decals on, install the chain gaurd and purchase some black fenders and it should be a wrap.Hope you guys and gals like it and I'll update the post when the bikes complete..
It's rebirth starts with a nice stripping to check for rust damage.
![Corvetteframe.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/d4b/d4b773931b4e235359799730dc7a65b8.jpg)
Then I had the frame and original forks powder coated with a color called Misty Midnight. It's a midnight blue color with cobalt flake added to it. It looks almost black till the sun hits it.
![IMG00080-20100508-1556.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/01b/01b44c2c7d66444a1ca4150a75ae2358.jpg)
Here's the decals I purchased for it. I decided to make it a knockoff Corvette, since me and my father our both into Vette cars.
![CorvetteDecals.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/566/5664ef485a75dc308e17299049767bbb.jpg)
Snagged the 44 tooth sprocket of my schwinn pro stock 3 bmx 20" bike, and the super long cranks(180mm) off my 24" bmx cruiser and installed a blue chain.
![IMG00079-20100508-1555.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/147/147c26a9760a751126efe07cbca57288.jpg)
Couple pics of the bike. Rideable, but not complete yet. Notice the big butt no stress schwinn seat. I found it at Wal-Mart for $10 thought it might look cool, but it's a little to wide for my skinny butt so it will probably go.
![IMG00077-20100508-1554.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/82a/82a4c4faebcd8dbc4b096174d05a2107.jpg)
![IMG00078-20100508-1555.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/f8e/f8e4a5fb208a3bf0a01b701332112eba.jpg)
My 13 year old taking it for a test ride. Man this thing rides smoooooth!
![IMG00082-20100508-1559.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/25d/25d38c40b6663d325e17d7c0b3ee2f8e.jpg)
Now all I got to do is get the waterslide decals on, install the chain gaurd and purchase some black fenders and it should be a wrap.Hope you guys and gals like it and I'll update the post when the bikes complete..