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Hi all, Ray here. Loving this forum! I'm 15 and have been into custom bikes for a long time now so I thought I had better build one of my own.

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Being 15 with no job means I'm not exactly made of money so fter receiving my Bratz lowrider for 37 quid on ebay, I quickly set about making it my own! The plans were:

*Green banana seat with tall chrome sissy bar

*Black paint with green pin-stripes

*Black pedals and green grips

*General tidy up with the chrome and whitewalls

Then after a few changes to get the idea of what will look like:
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I then began to strip it down for painting.
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I used T-cut scratch remover to clean up the chrome and bathroom cleaner on the whitealls, it worked really well!

I painted the frame with my dad.I wanted the clips going to the back brake removed as it would spoil the look of the pin-striping. I will let the pics do the talking ;D

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Gave them a quick skim of filler and gave it a wet and dry.

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Next up was the pin-striping! I decided to go for white and green as one color would look to solid.

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Then hit the whole bike with satin-black and clear lacquer.

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Then started re-assembling the bike.

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Put it all together into this!

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I have been on holiday in America which supplied me with a few cool bits for the lowrider. :cool:
Managed to get an American dollar note bandanna for the frame and some dollar decals. I have fitted the casino dice, quite pleased with the result actually as they are a lot bigger than normal dice caps. I managed to find a cool chrome horn and fitted my green iron cross grips.
my latest mods are:
- Chrome mirrors
- J2O bottle on sissybar
- Iron cross on fender
- Dice
- Yellow front light, rear sissybar light
- Green lights under fenders, I will get some night pics soon :cool:

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me posing with the bike :D
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In fact I enjoyed building this one so much, I did it again with the addition of this!! :cool: It started out as a purple Bratz bike:

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Hope you like them :)
 
nice bikes, i like the green seat did you upholster it yourself?

37 quid with shipping? if so, sounds like a good deal mang! 8)
 
Thanks for the comments guys.

redeyerat said:
nice bikes, i like the green seat did you upholster it yourself?

37 quid with shipping? if so, sounds like a good deal mang! 8)
Hi. The seat is from Ridelow UK but I upholstered the leopard one on the red bike myself from the original purple one it came with. The green and black bike was £37 but only round the corner so no need for shipping. I got an even better deal on the red one. I paid £30 for the bike which again was only around the corner. I then re-covered the seat with some fabric from a mate for free (he owns a trimming company), added some £1.99 grips and £1.99 iron cross dust caps and painted the bike in some red paint left over from my dad's Cortina and a can of Rover Beige he already had. All in all the bike cost me about £34. I have recently sold the bike for £90! Result!! :)
 
The look good, I bought about 5 of those purple bratz bikes and made a few minor changes and sold them for 120.00 each. I think I dumped about 30.00 per bike and only paid 20.00 each for them.
 
demon said:
The look good, I bought about 5 of those purple bratz bikes and made a few minor changes and sold them for 120.00 each. I think I dumped about 30.00 per bike and only paid 20.00 each for them.

not bad at all 8) Have you got any pics? Would be good to see them.
 
Very Well done :D I wish I could have done that well when I was 15. Keep up the good work
 
Hi all, Ray here. Loving this forum! I'm 15 and have been into custom bikes for a long time now so I thought I had better build one of my own.

71bf_3.jpg


Being 15 with no job means I'm not exactly made of money so fter receiving my Bratz lowrider for 37 quid on ebay, I quickly set about making it my own! The plans were:

*Green banana seat with tall chrome sissy bar

*Black paint with green pin-stripes

*Black pedals and green grips

*General tidy up with the chrome and whitewalls

Then after a few changes to get the idea of what will look like:
STP60514.jpg

STP60518.jpg

I then began to strip it down for painting.
STP60519.jpg

STP60520.jpg

STP60524.jpg

STP60525.jpg

STP60526.jpg

STP60527.jpg


I used T-cut scratch remover to clean up the chrome and bathroom cleaner on the whitealls, it worked really well!

I painted the frame with my dad.I wanted the clips going to the back brake removed as it would spoil the look of the pin-striping. I will let the pics do the talking ;D

STP60530.jpg


STP60531.jpg


STP60532.jpg


Gave them a quick skim of filler and gave it a wet and dry.

STP60533.jpg


Next up was the pin-striping! I decided to go for white and green as one color would look to solid.

STP60534.jpg


STP60535.jpg


STP60536.jpg


STP60537.jpg


STP60538.jpg


Then hit the whole bike with satin-black and clear lacquer.

STP60539.jpg


STP60540.jpg


STP60541.jpg


Then started re-assembling the bike.

STP60542.jpg


Put it all together into this!

STP60543.jpg


STP60544.jpg


STP60545.jpg


STP60546.jpg


STP60547.jpg


STP60548.jpg


STP60549.jpg


STP60551.jpg


STP60552.jpg


STP60554.jpg


I have been on holiday in America which supplied me with a few cool bits for the lowrider. :cool:
Managed to get an American dollar note bandanna for the frame and some dollar decals. I have fitted the casino dice, quite pleased with the result actually as they are a lot bigger than normal dice caps. I managed to find a cool chrome horn and fitted my green iron cross grips.
my latest mods are:
- Chrome mirrors
- J2O bottle on sissybar
- Iron cross on fender
- Dice
- Yellow front light, rear sissybar light
- Green lights under fenders, I will get some night pics soon :cool:

STP61190.jpg


DSC00035.jpg


me posing with the bike :D
STP61179.jpg


In fact I enjoyed building this one so much, I did it again with the addition of this!! :cool: It started out as a purple Bratz bike:

STP61159.jpg


STP61154.jpg


STP61123.jpg


Hope you like them :)
Thanks to your thread on the Bratz lowrider I've joined the forum, you've done a great job on your bikes which has inspired me to do mine.
Again I got my "Bratz" cheap and local on ebay
 
Yeah those Bratz bikes are the best bang for the buck! I did one couple years ago and I'm sitting on another one now. Great Job!! Great color combination w/ the off white stripe to break it up.
 
I'm about to pick up a Bratz bike to custom.....am I am paying over the odds at £80 ?

Depends what sort of condition it's in and what you want to do with the bike?, especially the chromework....I paid £57 for mine and was in quite good nic and the chrome has polished up nicely.......even so £80 still a bargain for a lowrider with potential....buy it and enjoy
I will buy another as soon as one comes up on ebay near me
Mine is about finished and I will be putting up pictures on here soon in a new link.
 

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