Off on another tangent.... BSA custom long lean Path Racer "The Archduke" that turns into an Art Deco Roadster!!

[37ccmflyte]

Small update.... I am still 250 miles away from the workshop as I have been since late last year, but last night for some reason a thought occurred to me from nowhere while I was in bed trying to go to sleep.... the reason I have not been able to design lugs for this frame that look "right" is that the bike should NOT HAVE ANY! Simple thing but took me months to work out. Art Deco.... streamline, simple geometric shapes.... the clean lines of a welded frame are what I need. Less IS in fact more. I can use colour and frame lining if I need any more decoration...

I am also thinking about a design for a couple of Art Deco display stands for the wheels of the bike, yet another thing to design and make.

 

[Wildcat]

Makes sense, no lugs.

 

[37ccmflyte]

If anyone has some cool Art Deco ideas for display wheel stands that compliment the bikes design please post your ideas....
I am thinking of fabricating two that look old and look like they could have been "cast" like period and antique stands....

 

[Grant]

If anyone has some cool Art Deco ideas for display wheel stands that compliment the bikes design please post your ideas....
I am thinking of fabricating two that look old and look like they could have been "cast" like period and antique stands....

Dogs

 

[37ccmflyte]

Dogs are a bit too Art Nouveau for the bikes Art Deco style.....

 

[Verrt]

A simple inverted 7 made out of bronze box tube.

 

[Swampthing]

Cool thread.
I can’t believe I just found it today.
Nice work.
How about some stretched out greyhound looking dog stands?

 

[pebblewurm]

Brooks Stevens breaker box is an icon:
http://archive.mam.org/vmedia/BrooksStevens/Images768/BSA_0354.jpg
For something a little more decorative, maybe get some inspiration from the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical center, a Mayan Revival treat:
https://www.ronhenggeler.com/Newsletters/2015/7.28/49.jpg

 

[37ccmflyte]

Brooks Stevens breaker box is an icon:
http://archive.mam.org/vmedia/BrooksStevens/Images768/BSA_0354.jpg
For something a little more decorative, maybe get some inspiration from the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical center, a Mayan Revival treat:
https://www.ronhenggeler.com/Newsletters/2015/7.28/49.jpg

Interesting..... they are both great Art Deco designs. Made me think about a small Art Deco "building" style wheel stands???? Stylised of course....

 

[37ccmflyte]

https://www.pinterest.nz/alanajbrown/art-deco-buildings/
Lots of interesting Art Deco building ideas on that page.....

 

[RustyGold]

Ideas gleaned from...book ends...

 

[37ccmflyte]

Ideas gleaned from...book ends...

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wow some great ideas there, thanks!

 

[Verrt]

Ideas gleaned from...book ends...

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This one!

 

[Hukah]

....like joining those oval tubes.... not the "regulation" way of doing it I expect but simple and strong.

I picked up that trick right away.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[37ccmflyte]

These are REALLY basic but I like the building theme.....

 

[37ccmflyte]

This is also cool.....

 

[37ccmflyte]

I am thinking about materials that would look 1920's and Art Deco....... contrasting woods, cast bronze, marble, glass, alabaster..... some combination of couple of those.....

 

[MattiThundrrr]

This is also cool.....View attachment 150905

A version of that one, out of a sheet of steel, but with Empire State Building inspiration, would be epic!

 

[37ccmflyte]

ummmmmmmm...... do I want little wheels on the stands?????

 

[37ccmflyte]

I have been staring at that picture for a while....... thinking about a display stand.... current thought is a single front wheel stand, where the tyre is just touching the ground. I am thinking of making it from rods like the handle bars..... low at the back high at the front.... almost like the centre of the frame in reverse,...... as seen from the front it would be steping down like a building.... either side of the wheel... going down and wider to be stable. No wheels.