BO15 SteamRoller - Finished 1st THANKS!! - CompareTwinWinsVerBotenSteamRoller

[Shrunken_Head_Pedaler]

Hope everyone has been entertained with my build thread so far this year.

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It's been another fun one so far. Have you guessed what the leather jacket is for? I actually only plan on using one sleeve.

With the coppertone paint, I thought of using white glitter or silver glitter vinyl to cover the nanner with, but I just didn't want a mono-color, mono-texture seat. You can't easily get any striped or pleated glitter vinyl anywhere. I even seriously considered some faux gator vinyl in a glitter color. Ideally I wanted some glitter vinyl with a pair of racing stripes on it. In my searching for different vinyl, gator, ostrich, leather, etc I saw some leather jackets with stripes down the sleeves and a lightbulb went off.

So my plan is to cut a sleeve off of the above jacket and cover the high back Troxell nanner with it. The scale and spacing of the stripes should be just about right for it. The stripes will either be dead center or just off center. This should be fun.

A sleeveless biker jacket means you’re a cool rider!

 

[kingfish254]

Had to attend to two of our rental properties today, but in between I did start breaking down SteamRoller and at least got the rear rack ready.

First, I did a lot of filework on the opening. smoothing out the lines a little better and getting all of the burred edges away.

Then I sanded the whole thing with 80 grit sandpaper.

And finished off with 140 and 220 grit

It was 104 heat index and my shop is not air conditioned, so I sat on my drum stool facing my floor fan the entire time I was sanding. When I went to wash my hands, I saw in the mirror where all of the sanding debris went to. If I can survive breathing various layers of old paint, there is no way that Rona is gonna get me.

 

[OddJob]

When you huff paint, you really huff paint!

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

That picture is priceless!


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[kingfish254]

That picture is priceless!

Just made it my avatar. (Temporarily!! I already reverted back to da natcha boy.)

 

[nosferatu1381]

What size are you? I have some leathers with with a quilted removable liner here that will never fit around my thighs in a thousand years. I mean theoretically they would stretch out eventually but Kate says I look pretty silly in them

 

[kingfish254]

What size are you? I have some leathers with with a quilted removable liner here that will never fit around my thighs in a thousand years. I mean theoretically they would stretch out eventually but Kate says I look pretty silly in them
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Then I could get a CHIPS helmet and sing YMCA

 

[nosferatu1381]

Then I could get a CHIPS helmet and sing YMCA

That's kinda what she said. I didn't think about just wearing them with skimpy beach apparel. That might work

 

[kingfish254]

Working in the shop tiday, but letting the wire wheel do the dirty work this time. This guard is looking sweet in the rough.

 

[nosferatu1381]

how a bout a helmet, i have two of these because you know, safety third

 

[kingfish254]

how a bout a helmet, i have two of these because you know, safety thirdView attachment 131587

Now that would be cool. Hut one. Hut two. Hut three.

 

[kingfish254]

Guard dressed up even nicer after 150 and 220 hand sanding (with fan to my back this time)

 

[kingfish254]

Here is my old Firewing helmet

 

[kingfish254]

Sissy bar cleaned up too.

 

[kingfish254]

 

[kingfish254]

Busy and hot day. Started off by propping the sanded holey higgins rack on the back. Looking good in the raw.

Then I roughly marked the incomplete rear nanner brackets to get them shaped up better on the grinder.

I am please enough with how they turned out.

Then took the wire wheel and sand paper to the Persons-Majestic saddle frame.

 

[kingfish254]

After that I wired and sanded the chainguard and sissy bar a already posted farther up this page. I really like how clean they both came out.

On to the frame. I liked how well my bendtop wire wheel was working, but it wouldn't be very practical for the frame. So I took a trip to HD and got a Milwaukee crimped wire wheel that is made to screw onto an angle grinder head. This is my first time using one of these on an angle grinder and I was impressed. Safety goggles and gloves were a MUST with this. It doesn't matter how good the wire wheel is, they are gonna sling wires now and then as you torque down here and there. I had to stop periodically and pull 1" wires from my shirt to keep from being too much of a porcupine. The wheel was $20, but I feel it was worth it.

By the end of this I was too tired to do any hand sanding on the frame, but I feel like I got alot done this weekend on SteamRoller.

Some of the tins are looking so good raw, that I just might swap bare metal for the parts of the bike that I planned on making Metallic Silver. I'll have to see how I feel about that after I sand the frame down. The Coppertone will still be a feature color on the bike. It just might be Coppertone/Bare instead of Coppertone/MeltallicSilver.

 

[OddJob]

We may have to start calling you Sandy!
And not because of your hair color!

 

[kingfish254]

This original paint coppertone raffle prize arrived today.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Bare metal always looks good and tempting to leave as is!