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UNLIMITED Singularity
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That's a real stretch limo. Did it belong to Elvis? Where did you get the springer fork. I've been looking for a high quality double like yours, for my little step-thru checkered chopper.
Haha! I like about 30" from crank center to seat top, so all of my builds are around that. The fork is a mixed up piece that I started out with a Monark reproduction from eBay. Got it cheap because the main fork was bent a bit. I then put the rockers and front springer fork onto what folks call a "Landing Gear" style fork I had in chrome. I had to tinker just a bit, open a couple holes up and use those axle washers with the locking tabs on them, but it's been on a couple different bikes before I got the fenders. Once those arrived well I pretty much had to take that fork off of "El Chiggins" (hehe look that build up...) and slap it on here.
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Looks great! This bike has really good proportions and I really like the paint. 
I just looked up your El Chiggins build, pretty wild! How was that thing to pedal with that massive chainring?
I just looked up your El Chiggins build, pretty wild! How was that thing to pedal with that massive chainring?
Three speed hub with a couple extra teeth on the cog.. no problem it's a nice cruiser and has a flipped rocker rat trap fork now. Same sprocket on my Harlequin cruiser too. It's a nice combo that exerciser sprocket with a three speed hub and if it's too tough get a little bigger cog for the hub. I just realized El Chiggins was a similar frame mod too...Looks great! This bike has really good proportions and I really like the paint.
I just looked up your El Chiggins build, pretty wild! How was that thing to pedal with that massive chainring?
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I have the worst luck the last couple days...
First my cell phone faded away... won't recharge anymore.
Then my red truck just refused to do anything,
so I pulled the battery and put it in my black truck...
Now it's running rough like a rod knock but not quite,,,
Looks like I'm lookin' for another vehicle...
First my cell phone faded away... won't recharge anymore.
Then my red truck just refused to do anything,
so I pulled the battery and put it in my black truck...
Now it's running rough like a rod knock but not quite,,,
Looks like I'm lookin' for another vehicle...
I've always loved that frame you did, but with this combo of paint and parts, it really rocks even more.
Truly a beautiful build!!!!
Thanks! It's not all bad news today either. I just finished the wrenching on Singularity. I may detail a bit more but the heat is off.
I'd really love to find a last minute Monark rear fender reflector body. (I wish for the fender headlight too!) The holes are there for them but they were long gone by the time the fenders got to me.
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Like this?
This one is on Ebay for about double what it should be.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186442129999?itmmeta=01J3T985V6RKZZR1TG9VRT9DN5&hash=item2b68d1224f
YES! That one is pretty chewed up. I do have a single taillight assembly and lens from a '63 Vette but it would need some kind of housing around it.
It's well known that eventually I did slam that sequence of notes into the grid. At least that's how it reads in the government reports and in the late night news and at some point there will be textbooks trying to explain it. But you know as well as I do that others tried to duplicate it repeatedly and there's only ever been one result and that was utter failure. Wainscot and Smyth melted half a dozen grids but they were using newer equipment. Modern instruments don't have the ability to produce nuanced vibrations above and below the focal point. Anton Qi removed the gravity shed completely from the equation and floated the whole assembly in a fluidic projection above the plains of Mare Imbrium resulting in some spectacular displays. Remember? Folks thought the moon was imploding and I'd wager the Chinese would've strung him up if the end result wasn't so beautiful in it's own way. Every one of the AI guys failed to even generate a logarithm and I had to laugh at the excuses. No, I doubt anyone has started with a more ramshackle array of used equipment at a location chosen on the sole merit of being cheap. I did love the old patina on the walls of that gravity shed, it spoke of cyclonic activity in the distant past and it reflected the glow of the grid in a broken and twisted way. Maybe that had something to do with the success. I think maybe some of the blues I'd lived thru was present in my playing and that was the defined turning point. I'd always remembered the saying, "Watch out what you pray for when you wanna sing the blues." I get that cascading the drivers inverted the visual spectrum. But why did the Singularity itself skip the violet and indigo and immediately show up blue? Everything else ramped up. All of the processes were graduated in some way. The only thing that went out of order was the note sequence. That little tune is mine and I won't ever play it again.
That Vette taillight would look really cool with some custom work. Those Monark assemblies go for around $65 on the CABE. There was a nice one for sale recently but I just checked and it was sold.
From grunge rocker to blues king. I like it better now, playing the blues.
Nice. Me too. Although I do like me some grunge. Saw Local H Saturday nite at a festival...
Really a great second life for this frame. I've always thought that the guitar bike was your coolest build, but now with this paint, fenders, and other details, this may be your prettiest build! Very well done brother!!!
CONGRATS!!
CONGRATS!!
Looks like the deal fell through on this one, it's available again.
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/monark-super-deluxe-rear-reflector.242699/
