Strait Steal

[Heavy Pedal]

A hopeless unknown 24" cruiser. Anybody know the make of this one?

[Doon]

I dont know, but I look forward to seeing what you do.

[brett4christ]

^^Me too!

[ratina]

It's a Columbia

[yoothgeye]

Maybe you can do something to make it look rusty?

[Peatbog]

A hopeless unknown 24" cruiser.

Not hopeless any longer now that you have it in the build off.

[tin machine]

that is going to make a sweet ratrod bike !!! will be watching

[Xcruiser]

24's are a blast to work with,ive done one and have another painted and ready for assembly.Hope to watch your progress til finished !

[Heavy Pedal]

Not much progress... Using a rear wheel off a 24" Hiawatha, and the front wheel is something I found at a garage sale a few years ago.

Musta come off a motorized scooter or something.


Now to figure out how to attach that on...

[kingfish254]

This should be fun!

[Heavy Pedal]

Ok... back at it. I really want to use the front wheel I found, so I thought of a way to attach it to the frame, like a 'normal' fork. I knew it would be too short as is, so I came up with an idea for an extention. Take a fork pipe and cut it off....

Fit it into a good piece of pipe...

Add the front wheel with it's mini fork...

And I have my extention. I had to trim it down so it wasn't too chopper long. I don't know if I'm gonna keep it this long. I have a hard time looking at it. I found a girls Magna Mtn. bike, minus the wheels, in our dumpster at work, so I salvaged what I could. That's where I got the handlebars. Just pieced it together for inspiration. I have way more to add to it... crank, pedals, guard and such. Sorry for the poor pics.

My wife said it looks like a circus bike. Great. I still have to decide on a color.

[imagearchy]

Looks like an Ed Roth project so far!

[Peatbog]

I'm scared, but it does look cool.

[kingfish254]

Love the fork.
You should make a spiral hot wheel track around it with some cool Hot Wheels glued to it.

[mitchelangelo]

Looks really cool! I might would shorten it just enough to make a long kickstand work and it will still look awesome. Very nice custom coming along there!