What do you do with it when it's done?

[Big Fat Whitewalls]

When you finish a bike, do you leave it as built, and move on to another one? Or do you tear it down, and build it in a different style? When I finish a bike, it's done. The next build will be another bike. I might change a small thing, like a seat, or handle bars, but the basic bike stays unchanged. I have 7 or 8 finished bikes, with at least that many projects to build, and I'm always on the look out for more.

 

[deorman]

When you finish a bike, do you leave it as built, and move on to another one? Or do you tear it down, and build it in a different style?

Yes. :lol:

 

[herr_rudolf]

When you finish a bike, do you leave it as built, and move on to another one? Or do you tear it down, and build it in a different style? When I finish a bike, it's done. The next build will be another bike. I might change a small thing, like a seat, or handle bars, but the basic bike stays unchanged. I have 7 or 8 finished bikes, with at least that many projects to build, and I'm always on the look out for more.

I'm with you BFW. When a bike's done, it's done. (Except for those small little changes coz a hotrod just never is really done.) I put a lot of thought in a bike while I'm building. There are obvious reasons a bike came out the way it did. Building for me is just part of the fun. I really like (being able) to ride what I've build. I'll just have to save money for the next project. And personally, I want my next build to be using a different frame or style than the one I did just right before. There's just sooo much to choose from, and this sit proves that almost any bike can be made into something extremely cool.

 

[Philphine]

dun? what word is that?

i haven't really finished one in a while, but i usually don't transfer parts from bike to bike. i call it finished eventually.

truthfully, i'm just getting back into the hobby after quite a few years now that i have a lot of room for them. what happened before is my best bikes ended up stolen. i had to think about it 'cause i was asking myself "if i do finish them, where are my finished ones?".

 

[texasbigjon]

great question! i try to build each bike in a different way,that way i can justify keeping them all! after awhile,it seems normal to have 3 or 4 bikes in your living room! :lol:

 

[bicycleguy]

I usaly keep the ones I really like and sell the others to fund other projects and make room in my garage.

 

[user 135]

Ride like the wind.

OR......

Sell it.
Part it.
Rebuild it.

 

[stretch]

i do all kinds of builds. flips, chops, mine, somone elses, that sorta thing. some go from a bike for me to a bike to sell.

 

[SSG]

I think that you could say that any bicycle, car or motorcycle that you build up is never truly finished, but instead evolves slowly over a long period of time.

 

[Anonymous]

When my bikes are done I "trip" over them and have to work around them down here in the basement workshop.(as DAD gets MAD)

THEN I get to PAY Public $$$torage every month as I move some more of them over there.

I get TOO attached to ALL my bikes as I build them.I KNOW I could never get out of them what I have invested in them.

I do it for LOVE,and the satisfaction of creating 2 wheeled ART.(as I call them)

 

[icyuod2]

so if you finished your bike/build and don't plan on changing it in the future, is it still a rat rod?

i've always been under the impression that a rat rod is an unfinished ride.something thrown together and thrown on the road long before its finished.
many of us try to duplicate that unfinished look in our builds, but does that count as unfinished?
what says the masses. if the project's complete, is it a rat rod or a ratty looking hot rod?

 

[Anonymous]

I take PRIDE in ALL my bike builds and DONT throw anything togerher.

If it ends up looking like a Rat then i guess it is....But some of them dont.

I dont use my finished bikes for parts.

 

[roadmaster]

i like that, two wheeled art. cuz we all know art mixed around spells... rat! :mrgreen:

i have done so many builds and the easiest way is when they are custom orders and i get to give them to the owner when im done building them up. as for my own, the ones that are "done" usually never are done as im always adding to or swapping out cooler parts. if it is a bike that IS done, i'm into it for a week or two and then park it in my storage 50 miles away at my other place (where 99% of my picts are taken). sorry, but i got a mind that won't stop creating and an attention span of a gold fish. :roll:

 

[rick74304]

I ride them. 8)
If something breaks, I fix it, but thats all. Last years build off bike is unchanged. This years bike will still be the same this time next year.
Rick

 

[JoKeR63]

For me, when they're done, they're done. But that's based more on what kind of bike I build. Still, some need minor changes, the King-Ray has already seen a gearing change as it was blowing out my knees. Looks butt ugly but it's more fun to ride.
But I do need to change my ways. I really need to sell some stuff and a couple of bikes are going to get complete make-overs next year, as the building season is over for me.

Gotta' make room for next years buildoff bike!

 

[deorman]

I've been changing my beater bike around for 30 yrs or thereabouts, sometimes it's broken, sometimes I find something I like better, sometimes I change it just for kicks. My Mongoose, on the other hand, mostly just gets maintained, and the stock fork and Rock Shoxs switched depending on how much time and energy I have for riding. My buildoff bike will probably be my next buildoff bike .