So I've been playing around with bicycles...again. 
No MTB or old-school BMX for me this time though. Oh no, I decided to go low & slow. 
OK, so the damned thing is almost unrideable, but it was fun to build.
So I've been playing around with bicycles...again. No MTB or old-school BMX for me this time though. Oh no, I decided to go low & slow.
OK, so the damned thing is almost unrideable, but it was fun to build.
there is some awesome going on in there, but you need the big cruiser style bars turned upwards to mimic ape hangers
I had a bike that looked like that once, after I rode it off a sweet jump.
Now all it needs is an air ride suspension to be complete, perhaps also mount the pedals a bit farther forward so it is actually ride-able...
damn, looks lile that was a pretty sweet road bike
It's not the pedals that make it unrideable, the spacing between them, the seat & the bars(at least the top of the bars) is pretty comfy. It's the complete lack of trail causing the front wheel to want to flop onto its side, couple with so much rake that it takes about 50' to turn around!
And don't worry, it was a pos K-mart womens bike from the late-70's, probably built by Roadmaster. I pulled it & 6-others from my neighbor's shed.
Well, I built another one...OK, maybe not so much built, as "threw it together in an afternoon with $14 worth of bike & parts."
Anyway, I picked up a pair of 1970's Schwinn Exercycles at two different sales over Labor Day weekend for $4-each...don't ask me why. And this past Saturday I got this Murray boy's bike for $10.
The exercycles had massive 65-tooth front chain rings, and 14-tooth fixed-cogs on back. Their wheel was a normal bike rim, but with a hollow hard-rubber "tire" for a flywheel. Since the wheels/tires/cranks/pedals were trashed on the Murray, I just swapped all that stuff over, grabbed the first 20" wheel/tire from the junk pile that held air, and threw on the exercycle bar & stem for the helluvit...and ended up with this mess: A 20" bike with 65/14 gearing, a 10lb rear wheel with hard-rubber tire, pedals that scrape the ground if you lean at all, no sweep to the handlebars, and no brakes...and it's a blast to ride!
That looks absolutely scary. The intertia that thing would carry when you got it going.....
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