Brown Sugar Stick A Fork In It! It's Done 7-11-11

[motopsyco]

Basic facts
Bike: Early 70's Western Flyer (oops found the original chain guard it's a Grand Trophy not a Galaxy Flyer)
Plan: Get out of my comfort zone....


(Cue up slow Texicano blues guitar riff.... )




My friends, they all told me,

Man, there's something gonna change your life.

My friends, they all told me,

Man, there's something gonna change your life.

Gotta have that brown sugar.

Man it's just gonna change my life.

Man, I gotta have that brown sugar.

Man, it's just gonna make me feel so right.

(slow blues guitar mutates into rockabilly jam... )

There's something make me feel good,

and it's gonna change my life.

There's something make me feel good,

and it's gonna change my life.

I gotta have some of that Brown Sugar,

Gotta try it before I die.




Til next time y'all keep the dirty side down

[beatcad]

hmmmmm......i'm gonna keep my trap shut
this whole game is for fun.
brown sugar better be sweet

[garagegoon]

Interesting way to approach the buildoff.... have fun!!... good luck!!!

[Road Master]

Where do you guys find these talking bicycles?

[deorman]

hmmmmm......i'm gonna keep my trap shut
this whole game is for fun.
brown sugar better be sweet

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[motopsyco]

hmmmmm......i'm gonna keep my trap shut
this whole game is for fun.
brown sugar better be sweet

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Beatcad, that's just beautiful... lets just say I have a similar theme but some very different ideas

Where do you guys find these talking bicycles?

They all talk to me, don't you hear them too?

[herr_rudolf]

...They all talk to me, don't you hear them too?

The only thing I can hear the bikes say is:
"Hurry up!"


Good luck, and it seems you're already having fun.

[Walker]

I was kind of expecting the Peugeot to have a french accent but that's a really creative into nonetheless Looking forward to how the mish mash works out!

[motopsyco]

Finally got to work on the bike some, been down with a miserable cold and then had to replace all the ball joints on my truck. Plus lot of overtime. God has still been great to me so I shouldn't complain.
On to the pictures!


Imagine full fenders, truss rods and v-brakes?



As you can see the steering tube from the old Kent mountain bike is too short, but that's okay as I was looking for a way to lower this bike a little without it being extremely obvious.

My goal here is sort of a phantom restoration, (no Schwinn fans not the restoration of a Phantom) to make this look like an original factory bike that never existed.

[xddorox]

Talking bikes........creepy, weird, deranged. I love it.

[motopsyco]

Got a little update today. As you may have noticed in the pics in my last post the fork I planned to use was bent so I balanced it between two blocks of wood and gave it a little tap with a 10 pound hammer and it actually straightened up without kinking or bending too far the other way.

The truss rods were still a little short. I tried re-bending them a little to reach the axles but then they didn't look right, and wouldn't clear the front brakes. So I tried to get them back as close to original as possible but that left me with this,


Luckily I had some metal strips exactly the same width as the flat ends of the truss rods so I cut, marked, and drilled them.


Then I welded the extensions to them.


Then bolted it all together


I have actually stuck a rear wheel and the handlebars I plan to use on it and rolled it outside for a mockup picture but at that moment my camera batteries died, and it was dark any way so I'll take that picture tomorrow if I get home from work on time.

[motopsyco]

Came home at lunch and took a couple of quick pictures while it was daylight. Glad I did because I wound up working late. This should give everyone an idea of where this is starting to go.

A little better view here

Now I just need to mount the front brake lever and run the cable for the brakes. At this point I am not sure about using the fender mount headlight that Is shown in the earlier pictures. What do you folks think?

[herr_rudolf]

^ This one?
At this point I don't think it'll fit your build. But maybe you have a rack in store for us with the same kind of square shapes.

The bike is comming along fine. Looking really cool in all it's under construction ratness.

Wouldn't a front brake damage all the gool blackness that is on your wheel? I converted mine to a rearwheel footbrake so I don't have to run a front rimbrake, so I could paint my wheels black.

[motopsyco]

^ This one?
At this point I don't think it'll fit your build. But maybe you have a rack in store for us with the same kind of square shapes.
Yes, that one, I thought it was really cool when I got it but it just doesn't seem like it's going to work.

The bike is comming along fine. Looking really cool in all it's under construction ratness.
Thanks, I hope that in the end I can fight the urge to turn it into another super glossy kustom...

Wouldn't a front brake damage all the gool blackness that is on your wheel? I converted mine to a rearwheel footbrake so I don't have to run a front rimbrake, so I could paint my wheels black
The rim came off of the Roadmaster mountain bike pictured above. I figure if the paint didn't get ruined by now it will probably be okay. If it does well "mo rat = mo better!"I have a matching coaster brake rear wheel that I purchased from member ind-chuckz for a really good deal.
Trying for a heavy cruiser look like an old Harley FLH with apes, but mainly just having lots of fun watching months of scheming and planning get swept away by moments of inspiration and desperation.

[herr_rudolf]

The rim came off of the Roadmaster mountain bike pictured above. I figure if the paint didn't get ruined by now it will probably be okay. If it does well "mo rat = mo better!

Good point! Hope it'll work out for you that way.