ATOMIC PUNK - New camera time - August 8

[bean]

I deleted the pic of my cut finger in my last post........my wife said it looked like I was flipping the bird

I started playing around with headlight mounting today. This one is the favorite so far. I would like to find something smaller, or maybe even a pair of smaller lights, but given the things I still need to do to this bike and the building time I will have, this will probably be the light I'll use (with a different mount).

[Circa Cycles]

That light is pretty cool.But the white circles are sliding off your frame

[bean]

That light is pretty cool.But the white circles are sliding off your frame

Yeah, I was thinking about some holes in the tank area for a while..........changed my mind and painted some on the downtube to look at for a couple of days.........I think they will slide off and stay off

[Critter1]

If you could drill the holes out and fill them with the same OD tubing and weld up the seams & blend them all in... That would look sweet.

Like this:

[Dr. Tankenstein]

I think with the visual 'weight' of the front end, adding holes to the frame would make it look 'frail' in comparison, i would forego the holes.

just my .02

BTW, this may be the 'BADDEST' front end I've seen in a long time!

Cheers,
Dr. T

[Circa Cycles]

Never hurts to explore your options.You made a wise choice,imho

[bean]

If you could drill the holes out and fill them with the same OD tubing and weld up the seams & blend them all in... That would look sweet.

Like this:

That was the plan, but after looking at it for a day or two I decided to not do the holes.

I think with the visual 'weight' of the front end, adding holes to the frame would make it look 'frail' in comparison, i would forego the holes.

just my .02

BTW, this may be the 'BADDEST' front end I've seen in a long time!

Cheers,
Dr. T

Thanks Dr.T. Yep, I agree on the holes for the very reason you posted

[bean]

I bent a piece of transluscent red acrylic around some pipe to make a cover for the inside of the light. Just have to clean the glue residue off the inside of the mic case and polish it to make it glow. I'm just going to hot glue the red cover in to make it easy remove to change batteries.

[Circa Cycles]

Cool Should look nice polished up

[kingfish254]

Nice work on the mic light.
Looking forward to seeing it glow red!

[bean]

I wanted to do something with the disc brake tabs on the fork leg


So I cut some 2mm aluminium into a strip


Used some of these


To make this


Not sure if rivets will be the final mounting method, and it'll get polished later on.

[bean]

I'm going to weld a plate at the top of the seat stays from the post to the brake bridge to add a support for the seat pan, so decided to have a play around with a green flexi LED strip I've had floating around for years. If I decide to use it, it will be under the plate and not visible......the battery holder would be hidden under there as well. I'll keep looking at it over the next couple of days to see if it stays or not. The Flying A may or may not end up there as well ...........just throwin' ideas around

[kingfish254]

Green Lantern

[Critter1]

I'm really liking the flying-A location!

[bean]

I'm really liking the flying-A location!

The more I look at it the more I think it will stay there. I just need some fine weather and a whole day free , so I can get the frame back to bare metal and clear coat it.