Rummy's Cafe Racer

[NickRummy]

Hitting the cliff notes here.... Just looking for some opinions and solutions to a few road bumps I've encountered.

Ultimately this is going to be a motored bike but after looking over bikes on this forum for a while I think I want to just ride it around for a while as a bike first.

The day if came home not running. Got it running after about 30 minutes and buzzed the neighborhood. Found a few things that were sketchy on the build so figured I would tear it down to go through it and that's where I started to lose control. Haha

Huffy cranebrook bike. Tore it down to the frame. Cut off chain guard tabs, filled in water bottle holes, nothing too major.

 

[NickRummy]

Threw on some red primer, some orange, some tan and finished up with black.

My hope was to sand threw a few layers and make it look worn, rusty. Turning out pretty cool.

 

[NickRummy]

Starting to put it back together. Had to open up the rear triangle a bit to fit. Some used 24" wheels with disc hubs. I think they were from a Specialized P1? Added some 203mm rotors and will be using some Elixir 3 brakes. Cheap dual crown fork I found on ebay and scuffed the chrome up. Looked too nice. Rear tire is a 24x2.1 Tioga Powerblock and love it. Goigg to find one for the front too.

Swappped to a sealed BB and found some no name crank arms, spindle and 25t sprocket in the parts bin. Having a hard time getting one of the crank arm bolts i to the spindle but I'll sort that out at some point.

Next issue is the seat. I really like the placement in this photo. I got a laid back post but it's still way too high. Any ideas on mounting this? I'm wondering if maybe I just weld tabs to the frame like spring perches?

 

[NickRummy]

Oh and also found this cool old headlight asembly!

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Just weld yourself a new mount further back for that seat as you suggested, should look awesome, will be hard on your knees if you ever have to pedal much though!

Luke.

 

[jats]

use your seat post as a pivot with spring brackets to support the back of the seat(?)
Thanks for the link to your build sight!

Troy

 

[NickRummy]

use your seat post as a pivot with spring brackets to support the back of the seat(?)
Thanks for the link to your build sight!

Troy

That's kind of what I was thinking, if I could mount the front to the seat tube and almost let the spring perches sit on the frame. I was thinking of cutting off the top of the seat tube and putting a star nut inside of it? Remove the upholstery on the seat and bolt the seat support down and put the upholstery back on.

 

[NickRummy]

I'm also not sure yet if I want to slam the front end, there's probably 2-3 inches I can take out of the fork tubes and get the wheel close to the frame.

 

[jats]

I'm also not sure yet if I want to slam the front end, there's probably 2-3 inches I can take out of the fork tubes and get the wheel close to the frame.

might do a mock up first your crank arms might hit the ground!

 

[NickRummy]

I'll have to take another pic. I got the BB and crank arms in. Nothing hitting currently but I'm sure they're close. HAHA I do have some tiny little 115mm arms from my boys bike that I could put on there to cheat it.....

 

[jats]

I'll have to take another pic. I got the BB and crank arms in. Nothing hitting currently but I'm sure they're close. HAHA I do have some tiny little 115mm arms from my boys bike that I could put on there to cheat it.....

that would be true board tracker!!