Race Rat

[baalberry]

My son has been after me to post this bike. We have been working on and off on it all summer and it is finally starting be something. It has had everything from tall apes to the current shorty bars on it. It started life as a powder blue girls bike with white tires that was my daughter first bike. She outgrew it and my son started riding it and the build was on. We stripped it and painted it this gold and put these rims off an old BMX bike on it. He just put the rear slick on tonight with hardly any help from me and we had also already changed out the front sprocket to a 44t. I am putting this in the build section because with the colder weather coming it is going to get stripped again this winter and repainted along with just cleaning the parts and another new tire. This is the bike that I am looking for an 18" rim for the back for because Nirve has an 18 x 3 that we think would look killer.

 

[CYRUS]

nice job, what are the black frame with the plate and the red and silver frame off of ?

 

[baalberry]

Mini bike frames. The red one is a Mini Chopper OCC web bike.

 

[baalberry]

That has to many memories from my grandfathers work shop. I remember drinking many bottles of Orange Crush from that as a kid. It's all there and actually in good shape other than the repaint.

 

[thatismytruck]

Very cool bike!!! He looks quite pleased also. Good to see more and more of us getting our sons and daughters involved with our sickness.

Boy and I made a similar bike as yours. He loves it. It is actually the sharpest one I've worked on.

 

[Dan Jose]

Wow how do you keep it so clean with that carpet on the floor? I wouldn't last a day ( I have an apartment so i wrench inside on occasion). Where did you get taht rear slick from?

 

[baalberry]

Carpet is actually pretty beat up. Got the slick on ebay. Its a 20 x 2.125.

 

[baalberry]

Here are some new pictures of the build. We actually got a different frame and decided to build it instead.
Before strip and paint.

My 8 yr old son painted it completely on his own. He painted it a sparkle silver with a sort of candy red over it. His first time painting entirely on his own.

Ratina from this forum helped me out with some 18" rims and so we test mounted the back wheel, sprocket and chain

The stock forks won't clear the front tire so we have some other forks from a mountain bike that need cleaned up and painted. When that is done we will post pictures.

 

[baalberry]

We did a quick mock up for a short ride. Not sure if this is the final fork or not. :roll:

A quick picture too, sorry so blurry.