My wife's friend TJ loved my Long Bike.
He wanted to buy it from me, but he thought he wouldn't be able to until January. This was a month ago. Well, I ended up selling it to DandDBicycles, and I just figured that I'd make him another one, should he still want it.
After his car got stolen, he now wants one, so I've started a new build.
I started with a generic cantilever frame that I got from CL for $20. It had a stem, cranks and sprocket, fork, and a seat post. It had been painted many times, and was currently a deep and ugly green. I forgot to take a picture until after I had started hacking it up, so I put the pieces back together on my work bench for this shot:
I then hacked it, to drop it down, and stretch it. I'm not making it as low as the Long Bike, because that bike was too low for practical riding. I also started to see it come together a little different, because I decided to flip over the head tube, which radically altered where I was going to go with it. Here are a couple more shots of it starting to take shape on my bench:
Work will continue tomorrow.
He wanted to buy it from me, but he thought he wouldn't be able to until January. This was a month ago. Well, I ended up selling it to DandDBicycles, and I just figured that I'd make him another one, should he still want it.
After his car got stolen, he now wants one, so I've started a new build.
I started with a generic cantilever frame that I got from CL for $20. It had a stem, cranks and sprocket, fork, and a seat post. It had been painted many times, and was currently a deep and ugly green. I forgot to take a picture until after I had started hacking it up, so I put the pieces back together on my work bench for this shot:
I then hacked it, to drop it down, and stretch it. I'm not making it as low as the Long Bike, because that bike was too low for practical riding. I also started to see it come together a little different, because I decided to flip over the head tube, which radically altered where I was going to go with it. Here are a couple more shots of it starting to take shape on my bench:
Work will continue tomorrow.