Thankyou, I'm doing well at being restraint on not putting heaps of stuff on it but still making it look good
Strip dragger
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Yer I like how the back looks and how it came out, I was over thinking on how to brace the exhaust, it didn't need to be but I wanted to, in the end clean and simple was the go in the end
Progress, painted bolt heads, new dome nuts fake cable routing
Added same dome nuts to seat clamp as the ones on the stem, sometimes attention to detail is therapeutic reward
Mockup of the front wheel rocker arm, just got to work out a strut or faux spring
Faux springs work for a good look on a custom fork. My One-Liner build from a few years back.... a woman's Spaceliner garden bike and I used a TRM Conversion Tank on here as well. Fun build!
Bring 'er across the Finished line, EC~!
Bring 'er across the Finished line, EC~!
I was thinking something like this but on a smaller scale, I have a couple of bolts with springs and end caps on them, they are only around 5 inches long, I will probably find brackets to bolt around the fork tube and I have some right angle brackets the spring/bolt will attach to the middle hole on the rocker arm, then use a strip disk on the front wheel, paint it and put on the chain and then mostly done, I would prefer a smaller kids size crank rather than the adult size one, I'm sure I have one somewhere but the focus is getting it done before I tinker
Great progress of getting ths bad boy together.
Looking forward to your fork idea.
Looking forward to your fork idea.
Nearly all hooked up, just waiting to get and modify a couple of brackets to attach shocks to fork
Looking forward to this fork. Cool work.
That fork design is awesome, reminds me of this.
thats pretty cool,I will keep that design under my hat for a future project
So I was struggling to find a clamp to attach the fake spring to the fork, the clamps I got didn't work, I spent a couple of hours getting stressed at what I could use and as I was closing the garage door I saw the double reflectors on a budget full susser frame and I was like"yyyuuuusss... ***********.. Yes"in my colourfull vocabulary, perfect brackets to use, now I just need to put on the stand
Are those going to support the weight though? They look like the angle will collapse once you put any weight on the bike.
Something like a corner brace along with an angle bracket may be a solution.
All ready tested and holds up well, the bolts holding the rocker arm to the fork ends are super tight they didn't even move with out the spring and bracket when I put weight on it, the brackets although look thin are surprisingly strong, I think it's all good with the angle it's sitting at I don't think there's much force trying to push the wheel backwards
