Well, since I decided to put Poison Apple on hold until I can save up the funds to do it right, I've decided to fix up the very bike that got me into this hobby all the way back in March of 2018, my 1950/1951 Schwinn DX bike, PROJECT QUICK CHANGE - SUBJECT: Schwinn Dixie.
I won this bike at an auction for $65, and since then, I've been working on this bike on and off for over 2 years. I got this idea in my head early on that I would change this DX frame's appearance by swapping parts whenever I got bored with how it looked or rode. I was loosely inspired by the quick-change rear ends racers use on their cars to change how their cars drive, and by an old act of the same name I once saw on America's Got Talent where these people would quickly change their wardrobe and even their hair, hence the first half of this bike's name. Schwinn Dixie was just a quirky play on Schwinn DX and Winn Dixie, because why not? I gradually accumulated a stash of various forks, fenders, chain guards, wheels, you name it, all for this bike. Though I've never gotten this bike in a finished, functional state, I eventually come back to it and mock up different parts to see what direction I want to take it.
Now to the main reason why I'm posting Schwinn Dixie here; I've been spending all this time mocking up or modifying parts to fit this Schwinn, but not once have I finished the assembly of this bike. It has never had the chain on it since I got it, so this Muscle Bike Build Off seems like the perfect excuse to get this bike riding again. A few months back, I mocked up these parts to see what this old Schwinn would look like as a muscle bike. I like the general stance of it, but now that I've not using the 26" springer fork on Poison Apple, I'd like to use it on this project. The nice thing about putting this bike together is that even though I have less than a month to finish it, it doesn't need a lot to make it happen. I don't really need to get any parts for this, but I would like to install a Shimano 3-speed coaster brake hub into one of my wheels so I can use my little Shimano click-shifter pictured below. I also want to sandblast the frame to get rid of the rust, and shine it up and clear it similarly to my RRBBO entry from earlier this year, Dumpster Diamond. Other than that, I mostly just want to assemble it similarly to how it's pictured below.
I'll try mocking it back up with all the parts I plan to use tomorrow.
I won this bike at an auction for $65, and since then, I've been working on this bike on and off for over 2 years. I got this idea in my head early on that I would change this DX frame's appearance by swapping parts whenever I got bored with how it looked or rode. I was loosely inspired by the quick-change rear ends racers use on their cars to change how their cars drive, and by an old act of the same name I once saw on America's Got Talent where these people would quickly change their wardrobe and even their hair, hence the first half of this bike's name. Schwinn Dixie was just a quirky play on Schwinn DX and Winn Dixie, because why not? I gradually accumulated a stash of various forks, fenders, chain guards, wheels, you name it, all for this bike. Though I've never gotten this bike in a finished, functional state, I eventually come back to it and mock up different parts to see what direction I want to take it.
Now to the main reason why I'm posting Schwinn Dixie here; I've been spending all this time mocking up or modifying parts to fit this Schwinn, but not once have I finished the assembly of this bike. It has never had the chain on it since I got it, so this Muscle Bike Build Off seems like the perfect excuse to get this bike riding again. A few months back, I mocked up these parts to see what this old Schwinn would look like as a muscle bike. I like the general stance of it, but now that I've not using the 26" springer fork on Poison Apple, I'd like to use it on this project. The nice thing about putting this bike together is that even though I have less than a month to finish it, it doesn't need a lot to make it happen. I don't really need to get any parts for this, but I would like to install a Shimano 3-speed coaster brake hub into one of my wheels so I can use my little Shimano click-shifter pictured below. I also want to sandblast the frame to get rid of the rust, and shine it up and clear it similarly to my RRBBO entry from earlier this year, Dumpster Diamond. Other than that, I mostly just want to assemble it similarly to how it's pictured below.
I'll try mocking it back up with all the parts I plan to use tomorrow.
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