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Where your bent springer fork meets the bottom of the head tube, do you have a ball bearing set? I have a bent springer on my Electra frame and the fork was not designed to work with the ball bearing head tubes. My Schwinn head tube is the same design. It still works, but the steering is not...

Awesome - thanks guys. Any idea as to where to get a 26" reproduction piece? Ebay doesn't have anything right now...

I've seen these quite a bit but I don't know what they are called. I'd like to pick one up for my build. 1. What are these called? (see yellow circle in photo below - stole photo from Bulletproof) 2. Where can I buy these? Another photo for reference:

What did you use to strip the frame? A grinder? It looks really good.

Do any of you guys know of a good site to get reproduction tanks? There used to be a vendor on ebay selling them for about $50. Now the cheapest is roughly $100.

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Looks awesome. What kind of frame is that?

Has anyone tried to fit a 26x3 rear tire with a standard Electra frame? The bike currently has the standard Electra 26x2.125 tires and I'd like to try to fit a 26x3 rear. I really don't want to modify the frame to make it work though. The frame/bike in question:

Your bike looks great. My bike wih the bent springer was hard to steer - you really couldn't do much other than nice easy cruises. Because of that, I have now switched back to a regular fork. I ordered the springer from SoCaliCustom.com . However they were really really slow to ship.

Sorry for the late reply - haven't checked this thread in some time. The only scraping I was getting was around sharper turns. You really have to pay attention as to where the pedals are - otherwise it will scare the heck out of you when you jam the pedal into the ground.

It is simply a 26" bent fork with the cranks that came with the Electra Hawaii. I did not have to go with shorter cranks.

I had the reverse of your problem. I have a new(ish) Electra that came with an ugly seat. I found a really cool old leather seat at a local shop. They warned me that it probably wouldn't fit with my seat post. They were right. However, I took the seat-to-post attachment off the Electra seat...

Thanks for the info! Where did you get the wheels? Did you paint them? Also, do you have any more pics of the frame/tank insert? What kind of frame did you start with?

I love the orange bike! What are the wheel and tire specs for that bike?

I had the frame, fenders and chaing guard media blasted. I then hand sanded them with some 80 grit to get the "raw" look. After that I hit all the pieces with four coats of Rustoleum clear coat. The springer is a generic from http://www.socalicustom.com . They were really slow to ship it...