This build is based on a Trek aluminum frame junker someone tossed out on garbage day. It was going to be a chopper build but I really don’t like these forks.
This frame was covered in several coats of flat black paint and dirt, and last Summer, I soaked it in old brake fluid in the desert sun for about a week. 95% of the paint fell right off from the hot brake fluid, but there was lots of detailing to do.
This bike has taken some battle damage but it’s not too scarred up and there’s only a minor ding or two. Most of the ugliness was in the drop outs which had been severely over tightened and gouged.
I have this BMX fork that was with it, and it used to be a nice chro-moly fork. Now it is twisted, bent, and gouged.
The handlebars and clamp were trashed and went into the junk pile. The seat post was wrong, and the seat post clamp ended up being this shifter body on the Lengthy Insanity.
There was also a forged crank that was chrome underneath all the black paint, but the bearings were shot and the sprocket was shot. No pedals, no seat, no wheels. Just a rusty chain, perched hopelessly on a pile of junk, until I came along and scooped it up.
Aside from that seat clamp, the only things salvageable are the bare frame and the head bearing races. (Nope. I had to toss the head bearings too. They were junk. This starts with nothing but a frame.
EDIT:
Forget the BMX idea. This will be another musclebike.
(I am moving this stuff over from Ulu’s Bike Update.)
This frame was covered in several coats of flat black paint and dirt, and last Summer, I soaked it in old brake fluid in the desert sun for about a week. 95% of the paint fell right off from the hot brake fluid, but there was lots of detailing to do.
This bike has taken some battle damage but it’s not too scarred up and there’s only a minor ding or two. Most of the ugliness was in the drop outs which had been severely over tightened and gouged.
I have this BMX fork that was with it, and it used to be a nice chro-moly fork. Now it is twisted, bent, and gouged.
The handlebars and clamp were trashed and went into the junk pile. The seat post was wrong, and the seat post clamp ended up being this shifter body on the Lengthy Insanity.
There was also a forged crank that was chrome underneath all the black paint, but the bearings were shot and the sprocket was shot. No pedals, no seat, no wheels. Just a rusty chain, perched hopelessly on a pile of junk, until I came along and scooped it up.
Aside from that seat clamp, the only things salvageable are the bare frame and the head bearing races. (Nope. I had to toss the head bearings too. They were junk. This starts with nothing but a frame.
EDIT:
Forget the BMX idea. This will be another musclebike.
(I am moving this stuff over from Ulu’s Bike Update.)
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