I love the rattiness as is. I am going to polish all the chrome pieces though, as the fenders have an olive green overspray that just doesn't go... it will be an ineteresting bike with the contrast between beautiful chrome and super wide WW's and the ugliness of the frame mods.
bigblockthing said:
bigblockthing said:even a kinked piece could look cool to break up the smoothness for a bit, if you like that style anyways..heres mine
) all of my ugly welds, and well, they came out really smooth. I've ALWAYS wanted to do a bare steel bike (even before I got my first old bike) and I'm finally bringing that dream into reality; this is gonna be a bare steel build. Oh, but there will be a twist. (That will be understood soon enough... 8)) I will have updated pictures of the frame tomorrow morning, but I'll describe now what has changed. As mentioned, all my welds (well, one super ugly one at the back excepted) have been finely filed smooth, and I've begun to fix the cuts in the downtube caused by moving the cantilever bars downward. (I'll have everything finish filed in tomorrow's pics). I really like the flowing lines of this frame, and rather than having a kinked seat post tube, I'm going with an appropriately curved one; I want the seat to be much lower than it will be now without sacrificing the flowing lines. I'm going to borrow (err, I didn't ask for permisson :lol Jon's awesome fender dropping idea to give it a super low and kustom look. if I do drop the fenders that way, what size WW tires do you think would look best? Full size 2.125 ballooners, or size 1.75 tires?
elvis51 said:
I'm actually not a big fan of Kenda flames. I'm still unsure on what tires will be used after all, but I've got the frame 95% done. It's almost completely stripped, all the welds are filed, and all that I have left to do is finish stripping it and weld a bracket in for my fender to bolt/screw to. I will post pictures as soon as the thunderstorm is over... It's a classic rainy spring day up here in Central MA. I figured out what I wanted to do about dropping the seat down, and, rather than cutting the whole seatpost tube out to weld in a downtube (it would have taken me most of a day to finish that), I chopped an inch and a half or so off of the seatpost tube at the top so that my collar sits on the frame tubes... that and the right seat setup should drop the seat down pretty low... I'm glad I didn't have to lose the current look.
stretch said:
As much as I groan about the filing, I like the very detail oriented work... I used a rather course old file I found in a bucket of junk on my father's workbench that is probably four times older than me to do the rough work, and followed that with a very fine one. I don't know if they're marked or not with a brand name or any indications of level of coarseness, but they did the trick! I was very glad to see how smooth the files did this... I was not expecting it to be as easy as it was.
bikebuilder said:
stretch said:
