Recent content by jodowd

Very impressive. Looks great!

Cool looking bike.

Very impressive!

Well, I know nothing about this bike, but it is cool and would make a very fun project! Buy it!

Not sure. I don't have any money and I am without a project right now, so the only thing I could do, is chop and lower my bike. If I were to to anything it would similar to what I did with the bike I built my dad (see below). I probably wont, just becuase the frame as is, is so original that I...

Here is a pic of my Firebolt. I got it from a guy in Nebraska off of Ebay. Mine is a 1962. Cool old bikes. Have a weird temptation to chop and lower it. But hope to fight that urge. To unique as is.

Absolutey, ok. Let us know how it turns out and what you do to improve upon it.

Really cool looking.

That is way cool.

Knew I wa missing something simple :D

Huh? I must be missing something?

I just posted pics and a breif explanation of how I built it in the Bike Build forum. The old man has always loved Rat Fink and I wanted to build something unique for him and I was in desperate need of a project.

So I decided to build the old man a Rat Fink themed cruiser for Christmas. I bought a Schwinn Jaguar for 30 bucks off of Craigslist (forgot to take a picture before I took it apart). Below is the Frame. I wanted to lower it. So the plan was to cut out small sections on the bottom bar...

Thanks for the compliments. I will post how I built it later tonight. It ended up looking like I envisioned, however a lot of extra stetps :lol:

I decided to build my dad a Rat Fink themed rat rod cruiser for Christmas. I had an idea what I wanted to do and thought it would work. Well, did not work the way I thought it would and had to wing. This is how it turned out. I am happy with it.