Sierra's Lil Chic ...reloaded

Gold Street Customs · Jul 15, 2010

Well since I am going to the Cyclefest with my daughter, she was all excited when she found out they had a girls class, so something like "dad can you paint my bike ? " I dont like pink anymore so baby blue with polka dots is her request, so guess what I have been doing after work the past couple days.....before

And this is where I am at so far

Gold Street Customs · Jul 16, 2010

Last night I cleaned the chrome sprocket and crank and found some almost Nos pedals and installed along with the bars and fork. Then my daughter says " that looks beautiful, I don't want the basket no more ,it just takes away the style " :shock: :shock: :shock: that from an almost 6 year old, Daddy's proud :wink:

Gold Street Customs · Jul 17, 2010

Just winding down after another 103 degre day (125 in my garage)but I got it done had quite a time with it details later along with picks but its going to cyclefest.woo hoo ! had a change of plan with the polka dots, my daughter ended up doing her own graffics..to be continued

Half Link · Jul 18, 2010

These builds are the best in my opinion. Ya, sure we can build our own wacky-total
customs or really cool Rats’ but when it is for a child, that’s what makes this happen.
It sparks a totally new generation’s interest in what we are doing today! Hey Rat Rod,
time to start thinking of a cool t-shirt for oh.... 2020 sound like we have yet another
generation on the way!! Heh...Heh... :shock: 8) 8)

That is way cool that your daughter came up with her own graphics. Can’t wait to see
what the two of you come up with on this build!! I feel your pain 107 here today with
more to come. :x :x

icyuod2 · Jul 18, 2010

looking forward to the pic's. can't wait to see the daddy daughter collaboration.

did she splatter paint it?

Gold Street Customs · Jul 19, 2010

I still have to take some better picks of the bike graffics, but here's a couple teasers, now for the build story,and why I shouldn't procrastinate

the original seat has a couple of tares in it so my wife says she could reuphoster it , I was sure I have some white vinyl in my garage, of course no where to be found, so I took a banana seat off another schwinn I figure I will use at leat for the show. The original seatpost looked like crap ,so I decided to put this chrome one in instead,!#$$%#@@%^&^&&^&^%&$% ....it didn't fit like I thought it would, and now its stuck ,tried to put vise grips on it to hammer it out...$%##&&*(&*%&$#$....didn't work and its hot out , next step post in vice ,and make sure I scratch something in the process, but thank the Lord it came out, so I put the old one back in and attempt to install the banana seat and of course its wider ,so change sissy bar also ,it mounts off the axle...$#&%&^&$&^^....so I have to install it anyways not a problem except my daughters legs are 8 inches to short, so I have to slam the nose on the seat down so she can ride it. but it made it to the show