I Just posted my intro and thought I would add to the gallery.
This is I believe an old Huffman frame. It was given to me by a retired co-worker. He is into doing full restorations on old bikes and had this frame laying around. It was rusty and had a big dent on the top tube so he didn't want it any longer.
I gathered parts from other places most of them were free or cheap. The fork was given to me in pieces with parts missing. The seat was rotted and rusty. The rims I got from a girls bike. You guys know the drill.
Well I cleaned up, primered, painted, got new tires and put everything together and rode it around last summer like this:
I put 26 x 2.125 tires on both the front and the rear but this frame is very wide in the back so the rear tire looked pretty skinny in there. I didn't know that they made a 26 x 3 until I found one at the LBS. I bought it not knowing if it would fit or not. It was like the frame was made for a tire that size, it fit perfect!
After riding it for a while in primer, I decided i wanted a more "refined Rat". So this Winter I took every thing apart to paint it. I ended up spending way more time than I planned with it. I filed and bondoed the dented top tube and also used bondo to fillet all the welds.
I made up a tank insert for the frame and had a kickstand plate welded onto the bottom bracket. The fork had some of the original parts missing so I made some new spacers for that. Finally I painted and recovered the seat.
So after many hours it turned out like this so far:
I was going for a Custom Hot Rod/Muscle Bike/Boardtracker look, let me know what you guys think....
The bike is completed now but I haven't found the time to take any finished shots of it yet. When I do I will post them up here.
Later on,
Grego
This is I believe an old Huffman frame. It was given to me by a retired co-worker. He is into doing full restorations on old bikes and had this frame laying around. It was rusty and had a big dent on the top tube so he didn't want it any longer.
I gathered parts from other places most of them were free or cheap. The fork was given to me in pieces with parts missing. The seat was rotted and rusty. The rims I got from a girls bike. You guys know the drill.
Well I cleaned up, primered, painted, got new tires and put everything together and rode it around last summer like this:
I put 26 x 2.125 tires on both the front and the rear but this frame is very wide in the back so the rear tire looked pretty skinny in there. I didn't know that they made a 26 x 3 until I found one at the LBS. I bought it not knowing if it would fit or not. It was like the frame was made for a tire that size, it fit perfect!
After riding it for a while in primer, I decided i wanted a more "refined Rat". So this Winter I took every thing apart to paint it. I ended up spending way more time than I planned with it. I filed and bondoed the dented top tube and also used bondo to fillet all the welds.
I made up a tank insert for the frame and had a kickstand plate welded onto the bottom bracket. The fork had some of the original parts missing so I made some new spacers for that. Finally I painted and recovered the seat.
So after many hours it turned out like this so far:
I was going for a Custom Hot Rod/Muscle Bike/Boardtracker look, let me know what you guys think....
The bike is completed now but I haven't found the time to take any finished shots of it yet. When I do I will post them up here.
Later on,
Grego
