Chippewa Bonneville (de Paris)

[zaz]

Here's my ultimate rocket, an Hiawatha Chippewa customized for racing on dry lakes in Street Roadster category.

I tried it in the neighborhood, I'm just unbeatable...

 

[Galtbacken]

Awesome!

 

[hotfoot]

Woah, that rules.

 

[Rat Rod]

That's an awesome build Zaz.

Where did you find that bike across the pond?

 

[user 135]

that is coooool. The disc really make it a dry lake racer

 

[sensor]

looks great and im guessing you got that 3 speed working again :mrgreen:

 

[lobsterboyx]

i love those wheel discs!

where can you get those on this side of the pond?!

 

[dos cruiser]

Thats cool, I like the stickers on the tank.

 

[sprucemoose]

wow! that's rad!

 

[Unchained]

That's just plain BAD! NICE work! I really like this build! Everything is just right. What's the hub? It sometimes looks like a Sturmey and then sometimes looks like a Bendix Manual two speed... though those never had a chain shift... the shifter is Bednix, correct? Please explain! This bike deserves a real thorough write up! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Edit: I also am drooling over the wheel discs... they just clip on? Can I ask where you found those?

 

[karfer67]

the hub looks like a new depaurture 2 speed to me but with a bendex 2 speed shifter. very cool bike the disks just make the bike did you make those or are they moon?

 

[aka_locojoe]

Very cool!

 

[zaz]

Thanks.

At first, I was looking for a straight bar frame, common for you but totally unknow in France where we use diamond frame since the 19th century.

I wanted to restore it.

I found this Hiawatha Chippewa's frame on the bay, cheaper than a Luxury liner's one but same CWC origin, same designer, same period.

I loved the chainguard looking like a streamline Commodore Vanderbilt locomotive, but at least I didn't use it.

I always have parts on my mind, Moon discs were one of them so was the Delta Hi-Fin single headlite.

1 Moon disc is 75$ and you need 4 (anyway, Moon doesn't ship overseas), beautiful but expensive.

http://www.mooneyesusa.com/Store/pr...d=479&osCsid=8554f296e489a629ed531a3e224c1db1

I choose the european way, a german website sells pair of discs (20", 24" & 26") for 30.95€ (42$).

http://www.classic-cycle.de/oxid.ph...471172/anid/aec446b2385ef9bb6.37619215/pgNr/2

 

[zaz]

With all those stuffs the only thing I could do was dry lake racer, more fun than a museum bicycle.

I used 2 New Departure hubs, a rear model D and a front model W.

To obtain a most powerful engine, I (finally succeed to) use a 1949 New Departure 3 speed conversion kit.

I fell in love with ND conversion kit when I saw the first 2 speed model on a Sears prewar catalog.

These are not stickers but decals.

I use Inkjet White Waterslide Decal Transfer Paper (with a coat of crystal clear spray varnish) and my Huffy Flaming Stack scanned decals sheet and other old decal found on the internet.

The pipe was first a vaccum cleaner pipe but I found a Strato-jet exhaust pipe that looks really cool.
Here on yeshoney Luxury Liner.

 

[Galtbacken]

Great tip on those decals! Thanks!

 

[gaskill]

thanks for the ideas, moon has great stuff but man overpriced! just some moon stickers cost 5 bucks or more. plus those water slides look way cooler. thanks for the linkage on the disc. i've got to order some now.

 

[rustyspokes21]

Love it.......Love it......Love it........RAD wheel covers.......Nice brown paint......Sick retro stickers.......Beautiful in everyway......

 

[Consigliere]

great bike, i love it, but i dont think its a good idea to have full front wheel, it is dangerous, if you go too fast it is like sail when you turn(i dont know ho to write it, english isnt my favourite subject)

 

[stretch]

naw that sounds about good. im kind of scared cuz of the same thing. but the bike looks awesome! im totally jealous! and im diggin that sweet sprocket!

 

[icyuod2]

where do ya get those cool woodpeckers from?