YES! Love the look, I always said.....the rite set of wheels and tires can make or break a build.
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YES! Love the look, I always said.....the rite set of wheels and tires can make or break a build.
If you look at the voids rather than the metal, it looks like a Frosty the Snowman chainring!
It does! I never noticed.If you look at the voids rather than the metal, it looks like a Frosty the Snowman chainring!
Things were going so well; too well, I guess. I snapped the barrel-shaped head of the positron shifter cable right off the cable. Okay, I forced it like an ...... This is gonna cost me; both in dollars and time. Ordered a new one from Germany(!), so I'm taking a nice long break for a while. This will give me time to consider other nice little touches. I think the bike is gonna show some real personality.
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This bike has a very unique and cool vibe , SD! RaT oN!
Thanks, OJ. I think it'll be a good rider, too. Let me know when you want to see the Old Pueblo.
While waiting for my shifter cable, I've fiddled with little details, like these:
Might have to try and get me some of them wing nuts for the Healing, very cool.
Glen.
Glen.
Wow, wasnt expecting the banana seat, very cool. The green looks good. If youre ever looking for orange again, chevy engine orange is a nice one.
Love this build, The use of different parts that go together so well, like the stem and the banana seat, then those aggressive bars! Great job, Simple yet a head turner.
Also side tip, those forks...... Not the main chrome bars, but everything else, (The aluminum parts) all have a protective coating on them, I recently broke a fork down and used a red scuff pad to sand threw the coating, then used a grey scuff pad with aluminum polish to remove the sand scratches, then polished with a drill with a homemade buffing wheel/ball I made out of Microfiber cloths. and it looks better then new!! I know most here prefer the rat rod aged look, but Its is an option with them!!
Heres the forks done with a added headlight.....
Just wear rubber gloves or your hands will be black for days lol
Also side tip, those forks...... Not the main chrome bars, but everything else, (The aluminum parts) all have a protective coating on them, I recently broke a fork down and used a red scuff pad to sand threw the coating, then used a grey scuff pad with aluminum polish to remove the sand scratches, then polished with a drill with a homemade buffing wheel/ball I made out of Microfiber cloths. and it looks better then new!! I know most here prefer the rat rod aged look, but Its is an option with them!!
Heres the forks done with a added headlight.....
Just wear rubber gloves or your hands will be black for days lol
I received my shifter cable from Germany and a shifter from somewhere in the USA,so I no longer have any excuses.
Added a vinyl pinstripe decal in lieu of a head badge.
Installing the shifter, its cable, some paint touch up and a little adjusting is all I have left. It's almost anti-climactic when a build gets to the end.
Installing the shifter, its cable, some paint touch up and a little adjusting is all I have left. It's almost anti-climactic when a build gets to the end.
You could do another one
There's still plenty of time
Go on, you know you want to
Yay! Saturday! I had time to finish it. Wait a minute, I'm retired: every day is Saturday. I did add a zip tie to the shifter cable AFTER the pics were taken. The shift cable is now hugging the frame more nicely. So, when you have no welding/metal-working skills, and all you do is turn wrenches, grind and paint, things go rather quickly. Here is the finished product. Now I can sit back and watch you true artists create your masterpieces.
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You know, all my life, I've never been much of a "joiner," but since finding this community, I feel as though I really belong to something special. Thanks for being here.
If that's not a masterpiece, I don't know what is
Excellent job
Yes, it sure is special... and it's blokes like you that make it special.
Now, that's enough soppy talk... are you suuuuure you don't want to build another masterpiece?
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