I have fallen in love with camelback bikes, The scwhinn speedsters and in particular Snydurs JC Higgins. I have a few canitlever frames laying around, got and idea and thought "Why not?"
One "Manhattan" beach cruiser frame ready to sacrifice itself.
A few minutes of cut off wheel action and what do you know. If you squint a bit it kinda looks like the Higgins.
I probably should have stopped here, but once I let the pinch in the rear seat stays bother me I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I pulled the removed cantilever tubes out of the scrap bin and went to repurpose them
One down and here is number two
Not sure how I feel about the look. It is much better than that awful pinch but it is a little modern looking.
That is as far as I got today. I need to finish stripping the frame and prep it for paint. I have some audi dolphin grey 2 stage left over from an old car project. The bad news is that I found out my powder coating oven is too small to fit the 26" wheels so I need to rethink my plans for them.
One "Manhattan" beach cruiser frame ready to sacrifice itself.
A few minutes of cut off wheel action and what do you know. If you squint a bit it kinda looks like the Higgins.
I probably should have stopped here, but once I let the pinch in the rear seat stays bother me I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I pulled the removed cantilever tubes out of the scrap bin and went to repurpose them
One down and here is number two
Not sure how I feel about the look. It is much better than that awful pinch but it is a little modern looking.
That is as far as I got today. I need to finish stripping the frame and prep it for paint. I have some audi dolphin grey 2 stage left over from an old car project. The bad news is that I found out my powder coating oven is too small to fit the 26" wheels so I need to rethink my plans for them.