I have been switching back and forth on ideas for this build-off a fair bit, tossing around different ideas and even the possibility of building a muscle bike for my wife Heidi, then was inspired by @whitefiretiger's bar tread rear tire to build an off-road muscle bike, then I was looking through an old issue of Kickstand Magazine (thanks @Dbubbleguy for sending me them!) and spotted a bike I had filed away for future inspiration, it was built by Dan Koenig of IchiBike for his wife and is called "The Black Rainbow":
I love the all black style, it looks really mean!
Combine "all black" with "off road" and then I was thinking of those crazy bikes and buggies in the later Mad Max movies and so this build was born...
A quick visit to a M/C wreckers (that is unfortunately soon closing down) and I had a plan! All that remained then was to dig through my parts bikes and find a donor for the main frame section, went through a few options but finally settled on an old 22" girls bike that I was never going to use for anything else...
Here is the basic plan:
Wheels are 18" and 12" steel M/C rims that I will weld in custom spokes and hubs like I usually do:
Tires measure out to 26" and 16" equivalents. Need to build a skateboard based banana seat, will probably run a 7 speed freewheel and dérailleur rear with a rapid fire shifter on the bars. (It has to be user friendly for my wife) Disc brakes front and rear and everything BLACK!
Total spent so far $40... (tires and rims.)
Luke.
I love the all black style, it looks really mean!
Combine "all black" with "off road" and then I was thinking of those crazy bikes and buggies in the later Mad Max movies and so this build was born...
A quick visit to a M/C wreckers (that is unfortunately soon closing down) and I had a plan! All that remained then was to dig through my parts bikes and find a donor for the main frame section, went through a few options but finally settled on an old 22" girls bike that I was never going to use for anything else...
Here is the basic plan:
Wheels are 18" and 12" steel M/C rims that I will weld in custom spokes and hubs like I usually do:
Tires measure out to 26" and 16" equivalents. Need to build a skateboard based banana seat, will probably run a 7 speed freewheel and dérailleur rear with a rapid fire shifter on the bars. (It has to be user friendly for my wife) Disc brakes front and rear and everything BLACK!
Total spent so far $40... (tires and rims.)
Luke.