Penydarren, done.

[dragnusa]

Heres a pic of my inspiration its the Penydarren the first high pressure steam locomotive that ran in 1804.

Heres the frame I will be starting off with its a 24 inch rollfast

Heres some of the parts Im planning to use. Hoping it all mesh's like I have it planned.
fork and front tire

some of whats going on the bike

 

[Gold Street Customs]

Good start..

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Love it! Looking forward to seeing it happen!

Luke.

 

[jats]

love your bike! this is going to be cooll

Troy

 

[kingfish254]

Unique and cool inspiration!

 

[Chips_Mahoy]

Unique and cool inspiration!

That's always intriguing to me. I like to know where builders get their inspiration or vision. When I built REAPER, I had a vision of what I wanted to build because of the shape of the front fender headlight. The TAXI bike idea just came to me one day. I'm not sure where I'm drawing my inspiration from for KING NOTHING. It's just another idea I had somewhere in the back of my head.

 

[baldwooky]

Yup. I knew you would be doing something steampunky when you put out that teaser pic the other day.

Are you planning on having all the gears/sprockets move in this build?

 

[dragnusa]

Yup. I knew you would be doing something steampunky when you put out that teaser pic the other day.

Are you planning on having all the gears/sprockets move in this build?

Nah they will be welded together to look like gears in the triangle area, then the mesh welded to both sides to make up the tank area

 

[baldwooky]

Those sprockets don't appear like they would fit in the tank area, or is it going in the bottom portion ?

 

[fordsnake]

A cool direction.

 

[dragnusa]

Those sprockets don't appear like they would fit in the tank area, or is it going in the bottom portion ?

They will be in the bottom area

 

[dragnusa]

A cool direction.

I hope it turns out as cool as it is in my head

 

[MazdaFlyer]

Trains, one of my favorite things!

 

[dragnusa]

Got the front fork on and adjusted where I think I want it. I wanted to tuck the front wheel a little more but my kids said they liked it further out.

Was going to use the original mount to the light but it wouldnt fit so I came up with this mount.

Going with these bars instead of the chrome bars that are on there now.

 

[MplsCoaster]

Cool inspiration pic
and you already have progress!

 

[dragnusa]

Think I'm going to try one of my thick bricks on the back before I order a 24x3 for it.

 

[dragnusa]

After a 14 hour work day I didn't feel like doing much, I did get the bars swapped out though. I like these much better then the chrome bars.

 

[dragnusa]

Hard to see the bar area but got the forks cut down and the seat on today. The stance is really growing on me, Hoping to test fit the 24x3 on it soon.


Cool sticker on the seat

 

[LukeTheJoker]

It has a real hotrod look to it now, even better once the fat tire goes on the rear!

Luke.

 

[dragnusa]

Guess you could call it progress, tried my 24x3 thick brick. looks killer but will have to widen the frame.

workable clearance on top

No clearance at all on the bottom

Then noticed this when I went to put the rim back on that I have had on the bike.