hello. this is actually my second time building this bike. It started out as simply a frame picked up at a swap meet for $25 bucks. it came wit the cranks(not original) walf fork and seat posts. and some brakes off of a moountain bike. sadly i dont have pictures of it hen i first got it, but eventually it tunred into this.
(by the way in the first picture the chain is hooked up wrong from the front crank to the rear crank. i fixed it later)
now the story behind this bike is that my father and i were at this bike swap meet, and came across this frame. my friend who was also there was trying to talk me into gettig it, i wasnt so interested but my dad who rides often saw it and told me to get it and build it for him so that he could get my mom to ride with him. i agreed and he paid for parts while i built it (my father is not very mechanical) so i built it as a gift to my mother for her birthday from my father and i. the bike was originaly copertone but had been painted in over in god knows how mnay colors... all poorly done. so i stripped it and painted it in a color similar to the original. I LOVE COPPERTONE. now the wheels are a single speed and evverything wored ok. infact my sister and i took it for a 30mile ride once. howveer the chains kept binindg and there were several problems with the cranks..... and the springer fork while we thought it looked great rode realyy poorly on a bike this heavy. my dad jokingly named it the Panzer afterGerman tanks becasue of how heavy this bike is.
(by the way in the first picture the chain is hooked up wrong from the front crank to the rear crank. i fixed it later) now the story behind this bike is that my father and i were at this bike swap meet, and came across this frame. my friend who was also there was trying to talk me into gettig it, i wasnt so interested but my dad who rides often saw it and told me to get it and build it for him so that he could get my mom to ride with him. i agreed and he paid for parts while i built it (my father is not very mechanical) so i built it as a gift to my mother for her birthday from my father and i. the bike was originaly copertone but had been painted in over in god knows how mnay colors... all poorly done. so i stripped it and painted it in a color similar to the original. I LOVE COPPERTONE.
now the wheels are a single speed and evverything wored ok. infact my sister and i took it for a 30mile ride once. howveer the chains kept binindg and there were several problems with the cranks..... and the springer fork while we thought it looked great rode realyy poorly on a bike this heavy. my dad jokingly named it the Panzer afterGerman tanks becasue of how heavy this bike is.
