After a two year stint in the side yard waiting for some attention, the '49 B-6 is now disassembled and waiting for a trip to the sandblaster. It was a patient bike, and rewarded me for leaving it sitting out in the weather all this time by coming aprt with little to no issues at all. I remember taking some less than two year old bikes apart with a lot of locked solid bolts/screws, but not this baby. It was a piece of cake. (Does that mean it is gonna bite me when I go to put it together?)
Haven't made a real plan, but have anough parts on hand to go a couple of different ways... We'll leave it at that until it tells me what it wants to be.
Starts out like this (but before spending two years in the yard):
It will still be a bike when it's done, just don't know exacly what it'll look like. I can assure you, it won't be the same colors again, and stock ain't where it's headed, though there will be a lot of period correct pieces involved.
I guess we'll see as time goes by....
Rat Royale
REC Elsewhere
Haven't made a real plan, but have anough parts on hand to go a couple of different ways... We'll leave it at that until it tells me what it wants to be.
Starts out like this (but before spending two years in the yard):
It will still be a bike when it's done, just don't know exacly what it'll look like. I can assure you, it won't be the same colors again, and stock ain't where it's headed, though there will be a lot of period correct pieces involved.
I guess we'll see as time goes by....
Rat Royale
REC Elsewhere