Birthday present for my son. New picture! And movie!

[Easy Skywalker]

I asked my oldest what he'd like for his 9th birthday, and he said: "Only a bike!" But it had to be a long one. So I got this of of our version of Craigslist.

It's a quite 'cheap' brand, the welding isn't very tidy, stickers are crap, but other then that it's okay, nice 24" wheels. And what I like about this one is that the seat can quite easily be made more to the back, if my son gets taller.
Took the bike apart, and smoothed out the bad welds and cleaned most of the paint of, especially where the stickers were (looked like they were IN the paint...)
Wanted to do a thin blue line here and there, But the nozzle on the can was crap, so there was a lot of blue :shock: But that made me want to use this baby-blue on a future build

Made stripes with thin tape, flat-blacked it and took tape off:

Gonna add a clear-coat later.

 

[Markm]

very cool!!

 

[Doomonhue]

He will treasure that forever!

 

[Easy Skywalker]

Thanks for the comments, guys!
Tonight I cleaned all bearings, coasterbreak and frontwheelhub.
Made sort of a mock-up:

 

[user 135]

I like that. The new paint job looks tough. The wrap on the bars look good too. Lucky son.

 

[ricksterr1221]

Yeah hes lucky, i love that bike! Nice work man!!!

 

[Easy Skywalker]

Thanks guys!
I wanted to go for a moonbar and a bananaseat/sissybar. But my wife (thinks that she) has a say in this one, so I'm gonna have to stick with the org. handlebars and seat for now... :mrgreen:

 

[Larry]

The paint came out great. It has an early bmw flavor to it.

 

[Rat Rod]

WOW...I'm impressed!!!

Your version of a paint job certainly blows away the original.

This is turning into a very cool bike.

 

[Easy Skywalker]

Thanks a bunch!
Yeah, you're right Larry, is has an old BMW look to it. I reminded me of something, but I could place it...

I do think the bike is becoming very black (did the tape on the handlebars to cover some rust, and the fork had a strange grey colour I wanted to get rid of). Perhaps I should just call it Black Beauty and not think about it too much :lol:

 

[TexasXXX]

GREAT looking bike.....I like that frame design.

I'm sure that your son will flip out when he sees it!

 

[Easy Skywalker]

Knowing him he will,Texas!! :lol:

 

[karl]

Sweet job collegue!
I love that al-capone look!
Want to adopt me?

 

[Easy Skywalker]

Want to adopt me?

LOL!!! NO! :lol: :lol:
I'll get the boys to show their bikes after the holydays when you're in town.

 

[Easy Skywalker]

Almost done...

 

[Easy Skywalker]

I've put Turtle Wax on it and it's done! (I want to put a moonbar on it, perhaps a sissybar/bananaseat, but we'll see what the birthday boy has to say about it himself next week...)

 

[Doomonhue]

That turned out nice!

 

[Clothespin n]

Very nice Flip...
it looks WAY better..

when I first saw The Black with Stripes I thought....

How Cool would that Look with a "Norton" Motorcycle Logo on it..

Like This one..
http://www.nortonmotors.com/images/norton_logo.gif

The Flames look Great in The Tank area as well...
and The Header Tape on The Bars looks awesome!

Great Job Easy..

 

[Easy Skywalker]

Thanks again lads!
Wow, Kev, yeah, a Norton logo WOULD look cool!!!

 

[user 135]

WOW that is long. The paint scheme came out great. Now off to your son to decide what is best.