The finished gender reassignment monark

[Uncle Stretch]

I appreciate that so many of you like it the way it is. If you have a mental picture of something when you start and it deviates from your vision its hard to accept the finished product. I hate that I built custom frames and they all turned out just as I had envisioned them. This was a simple cut out a couple bars and add one. Its done well enough. The paint came out good and all the parts worked as I thought they would. The part that got me is I never saw that elevated bar problem. If it was in my jig I would have noticed it right off. All in all it looks pretty good but I still have a feeling of failure on this one. :|

 

[Rat Rod]

If it had turned out like you wanted it to...what would you have done with it?

 

[Uncle Stretch]

FLIP IT just like Im going to do anyway. It will still bring $200 on cl :roll: I would have just felt better about my abilities

 

[Rat Rod]

That's what I figured...someone will love that bike...stop torturing yourself...LOL! :lol:

 

[Outa_Spaceman]

I can't see what's wrong with it....
At all....

I cant remember ever seeing a bike with the top tube going up and an angle ,that wasnt popping a wheelie. :lol:

:idea: Just think of all the effort you'll save... :lol:

 

[aka_locojoe]

add another tube?

This is cool!

 

[Ed_Straker's_Rat]

I think it's really cool. Actually I like it so much I am a bit surprised by your disappointment in the way it turned out. I like the way the straight forks, top tube, seat tube and chain stays counter-balance the sweep of the down tube and seat stays. Classic British and European bikes never had many curves in them so maybe that's why that top tube looks perfectly acceptable to my eyes. That and looking at sloping top tubes on mountain bikes for the last twenty years! Defo reminds me of a work-bike. And the Kona Humu....

I agree, it looks great to me...

This is my non-rat daily rider with a similar slope in the TT:

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Yeah after looking at it in my livingroom its grown on me . Im real happy with the dark green paint and the black fenders,rims and tires . The three coats of clear didnt hurt either. Today I was going to clean off the paint on the chainguard and paint it to match. My side grinder with the wire bush grabbed it and twisted it into oblivion....It was ugly anyway. It did it really quickly and once I checked and still had all my fingers attached I was relieved it was only an ugly chainguard that was destroyed. Before I started working on it I thought....What were the bicycle designers thinking to put that ugly crap on a bike.

 

[karl]

I like the bike.
As it is.

 

[Boardtrack fan]

Looks like you gave it more modern geometry. Like the post above and the one I posted below.