Rat Stink /Now What ??? :(

[todhunter]

Those handlebars are so sick!

 

[GuitarlCarl]

Yeah I been workin' on the Winter build but also looking for bits I wanted to do on HeadBanger...
I'd like to find a fishtail pipe to tuck in behind my chainguard end... and I will put a disc brake on the front... really I will...

Carl.

 

[Stonie68]

I have a couple that I'm putting parts aside for, another muscle bike and a 1954 Schwinn Black Phantom. Then always looking for more parts to add to my favorite bike, nameless rat bike.

 

[GuitarlCarl]

I'm sourcing Steampunk bits now for my Winter Build, The Difference Engine. My easy riding bike Is a 90's Cannondale touring bike I ditched the drops on, long before fixies were the rage... but this Schwinn Crisscross I'm modding may take it's place... and I've never done much on my 36' CWC that I may enter in the BONINE... so I'm collecting bits for it too.

Carl.

 

[Stonie68]

 

[Stonie68]

 

[Stonie68]

I've had a photographer wanting to use this bike for his Steampunk shoots, it's still a work in progress as I find vintage pieces for it.

 

[GuitarlCarl]

That's it... I'm going to go work on a bike...

Carl.

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

I love those guards so much. I want to build some. They remind me of my old Road King.

 

[Stonie68]

 

[Stonie68]

Found one of the Guards in a stash of old bike parts, shop shut down in 1970, a couple of weeks ago I got to dig at the place again, found the remaining guard and thanks to a buddies good eye he found the clamp for them.

 

[Stonie68]

You can find repos of them, this bikes getting rusty and crusty only. I need to rust out the front fender.

 

[Stonie68]

The yellow gold bike is my other favorite to ride, just a old survivor.

 

[ODDER]

Now What? Builds over, to cold out to ride, brains plotting the next build, come on Spring.

I like to take mine to the gym. Then fire up the treadmill and ride til they kick me out.

 

[Stonie68]

This is my mom on my first Muscle Bike, a hand me down from my 4 sisters, can't see it but has the tall sissy bar, I've been searching for the only photo of me on it.

 

[bikebuilder]

I like to take mine to the gym. Then fire up the treadmill and ride til they kick me out.

I tried that at home once. It was much more difficult than rollers. Rollers were bad enough with a swingbike...

 

[todhunter]

Stonie68 - what is the name of or the source of that set of handlebars?

 

[Stonie68]

Just always called them Rams Horn Handle Bars, I have 3 bikes that came with them, I know you can find them on ebay starting at $100

 

[todhunter]

Not the rams horns...the ones one rat stink. The ones that look almost like a steering wheel.

 

[Stonie68]