I am off of work on Mondays and the rain held out awhile so I got busy today! I do not weld but I need to learn. I took a couple of things over to my uncle's in order for him to help me out with the welds. First thing we grinded the chrome off the head tube of my forks. Then cut them and welded a piece of tube to make them 3/4" longer. We stuck a socket in the tube and that way it held it in place while we tacked it and then popped the socket out and he welded the forks up and we grinded them down smoother so they wouldn't rub the head tube or something. I got longer bolts for the trees and used some washers to make up the space in between the top plate and the top of the trees. No one would ever know unless I showed them. Here's the finished welded forks.
Here is the occ bike I picked up at a yard sale for like 10-15 bucks, I forget. I am using the forks, wheels and the stem off of it.
I picked up an old tomos moped. It's my first moped I have ever owned...and it needs to be ratted out. I took it apart and since I am putting an engine kit on it and some other random stuff to make it do 60mph instead of the factory boring 30mph I have to weld a top tube on the frame so we took care of that today too. Every tutorial I saw for a top tube on these things everyone used round bar so i had to be different and use square tubing. Looks cooler anyway.
I came back home and wanted to get some painting done. For the moped I used spray on truck bed liner and it is some messy nasty crap! The first can was really sputtering and made a mess and the second can was really nice and smooth. It kind of made the frame look like it was on fire and some point in time so it's pretty ratty. It's kind of cool looking though so no big deal. I then put a few coats of BBQ grill paint. I was looking for something cool to use and saw this paint so i decided it will do good for the moped and I can use it to recoat the bike frame as well. Here is the moped frame, the swing arm and some headlight bezel I picked up that actually mount the speedometer inside the top of it. Kind of cool looking.
So then I moved onto the bike frame. No truck liner, just BBQ grill paint.
pedals and hand grips before
pedals after
grips after
Here's the stem off the occ bike
Here's some ape hangers I'm gonna use
I put some of the bike together and threw on the crank set as well. I had to do a lot of cleaning to most of these parts because I had some rust and dirt, especially the cranks and the handlebars. I got that all finished up and here's what I have done so far.
I cleaned up and I am calling it a day. It's been a pretty productive day. I have decide what to do for a seat, I have a fake headlight off the occ bike I want to turn into a real headlight. I need some kind of tail light looking thing. I am still planning on doing a tank. I made a template for it out of paper today. I am going to work on that here soon. I need to go pick up a chain for it. More or less all of my detail stuff. I need a kickstand which I have the original flightliner one but when I took it apart I was in my backyard and when I took the clip off that holds the kickstand in it popped like 20 feet into the grass and I couldn't find it for anything. I even busted out a metal detector and couldn't find it. Does anyone have one of these things I can buy or have any idea where to get one? I'm on my way to shower and lay around and watch a movie or something. I earned it today.
