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This will be my first custom built bike, that is if you don't count me ruining my 3 speed english racer as a kid.
I'm letting the bike tell me what it wants to be, and this build is a fickle girl, she keeps changing her mind. I started out wanting to build a Varsity looking chopper using 20" wheels.
The first thing I did was to cut the top tube at the seatpost, notch it at the head, and move the back up. Then I realized it might be easier to get donor pieces to relocate the bottom bracket. A friend donated a 20" girls frame and while figuring out how to piece it together, the direction changed, now it was looking like an old dirt track bike to me.
Some Gorilla Tape to hold it in shape.
Then some ugly welding.
Making sure everything will fit.
I'm letting the bike tell me what it wants to be, and this build is a fickle girl, she keeps changing her mind. I started out wanting to build a Varsity looking chopper using 20" wheels.
The first thing I did was to cut the top tube at the seatpost, notch it at the head, and move the back up. Then I realized it might be easier to get donor pieces to relocate the bottom bracket. A friend donated a 20" girls frame and while figuring out how to piece it together, the direction changed, now it was looking like an old dirt track bike to me.
Some Gorilla Tape to hold it in shape.
Then some ugly welding.
Making sure everything will fit.