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Thanks Luke. But now for the Good News... "Spooky" is DONE! As this was a bit of a clandestine build, it fell right in with my past. In working on the B-2 Bomber, we were all labeled as "Spooks". Working behind closed doors, not able to speak of our work... Only knowing, that it was...

My apologies, for not keeping up, with the progress here. Though many things lately, have occupied my time, I have been able to s l o w l y make some progress here. The frame, is now ready for prime & paint. This frame was built as a "Girls" bike. I removed the upper tube from the "Girls" bike...

Let's get caught up, on some recent events. In riding this bike, I found my legs to be a bit cramped. Rather than raise the seat, I chose to curve the seat post, and slide the seat, a bit to the rear. I went with smaller spacers, for the rack. The larger ones looked good, however, there was no...

For some silly reason, I even feel compelled to make the valve stem caps, from some old dice... Yet in doing this, and even planning my next build, I got to thinking. Perhaps I should build my next bike, in a "Gambler" theme...

Thanks for the compliments... The truss rods are done. As is the chain guard, even though the crank hits it. This will be fixed soon. I guess we're ready for prime and paint now. So a total disassembly, sanding, priming, and painting, is in my near future...

I felt that on this bike, truss rods would be mandatory. So I grabbed this, out of the parts box. So off to the Auto Parts store to spend some money. Darn it. But I HAD to have, truss rods. Two 1/4" brake lines, offered to help with this. I put a bend in them, then futzed with them both, until...

SWEET!

The fender braces. Far from perfect, but much better than they were...

The chain guard is now ready for primer and paint.

Working on the chain guard tonight. This was made from a steel shelf, that I rescued (pulled) out of the trash... It spoke to me. It begged me "PLEASE. Please, let me live again. as a chain guard on you bike build"... Well, not really. But I thought that it would work. Not done yet. More to...

Of course the fenders were just a bit dented. That shouldn't take too much to fix that. But the braces? That's another story...

So even though I wanted an "Old School" bike, I wanted just a bit of "Techno" thrown in. I made the rear rack from a big screen TV mount kit. I put large hex spacers between the rails. The all thread rod ends, will be cut to length, and capped with castle nuts. The rearmost spacer, has a short...

Now that I cut the front tube, for the larger bearings, I needed to weld it back together. So I made this plate, curved it, and brazed it over the cut.

The larger fork tube, required larger bearings. Because of this, I had to cut the frame, to fit the larger bearings.

As this bike is being built, in true "Ratrod" style, my goal is to spend little, if any money at all. I had a gooseneck, that I really wanted to use on this. However, it was just a bit larger in diameter, than the fork tube. Easy fix. Cut the top off the original fork tube. Weld the other one...