Hi everyone, well just a bit of an update on how the WASP bicycle looks at the moment.It's been a while and I have slowly been doing little bits and pieces to the bike and collecting little extras when I've had cash/time.
I always intended on putting a tank on the bike, so after months and months on keeping an eye out on Ebay for the right one and someone that would be willing to post to England, I found an original Cantilever tank.It had been taken back to bare metal, but still had the red ends painted towards the thinner end on the tank.Little look to see if it fits on the bike and tested the NOS Delta Horn goes in alright.
I am unsure of what bike it came off of but it was in good condition and the inside was all good and solid.Cleaned it up a bit and got rid of the grease and light rust on the inside.Gave it a white undercoat and started masking up for repainting.
Cream/ Ford Ivory on, and quick pencil for the lines to try and see where to mask.
Laying down the green after masking off the cream areas I wanted to keep.
Peel back the masking tape and started doing the cream and green lines.
I bought a couple of Schwinn transfers and traced them on to some carbon paper.Then went over my original trace again on the tank.
I sprayed the green rattle can paint into a tub and had some white spirt to hand to stop the brush sticking together and started painting the green Schwinn logo.
All done.
I am quite pleased with the result and considering it was all done with rattle cans, it came out nice.
I have also added little things.Old Miller head and tail lights.They were in a sorry state, so a quick buff up with the dremel wire brush cleaned them up.Not working yet but they look nice.Also added a home made WW2 pouch, out of some fabric I had laying around and a licence plate under the seat, out of an old mint tin and bracket I had in the shed.The tyres have also been replaced with some new brick tread Duro repops.
Pics as it is at the moment.