My Latest Bike-o-mod

[Frank Lee]

Big Red and Big Blue both have 26" tires.

I need me wunna them Coker 36"ers!



Lessee yer mod!

[MetroMPG]

26 inchers? You must be a giant person.

[Frank Lee]

I have hit my head on things on more than one occasion... which might explain a lot.

[MetroMPG]

My seat reinforcement, on this bike:



That little seatback / lumbar thing -- against which you push when you're really putting the power down -- I kept bending it back. (It's bent in that photo. I blame the massive strength in my prodigious leg muscles.)

Welded up some supports a few weeks ago:



I love riding this bike. Feels like I'm on holidays whenever I go somewhere on it.

[Frank Lee]

Looks good- wouldn't it look funny if we went on a ride?

[MetroMPG]

Ha! I think I could almost ride UNDER that red bike (as long as you don't triangulate it).

Part of me wishes there was a group of people around here that wanted to get/build crazy bikes and occasionally ride them around.

[Frank Lee]

Me too. I'm pretty much alone in biking around here- that goes for just plain regular bicycling too.

[Christ]

I'm not sure where the pic is right now, but Christopher Hitchens had a pretty badass (excuse me) bike that I remember seeing a few times in some of his pics. I'll try to find it.



I can't imagine riding anything that I can't put at least one foot down on. Not that I'd be afraid to ride it, but it just seems like it'd be too much of a pain for me. I don't even ride motorcycles that I have to lean a foot down on, except large enduro bikes.

[MetroMPG]

Ha - I have that exact bike.

If I recall, he was photographed riding with both feet off the pedals to make a point about an archaic law prohibiting such behavior.

[jtbo]

As a kid of 80's many of us drooled after these:


Of course back then, our country was struggling at shadow of big neighbouring country and such seats and handlebars were banned rather quickly, it of course just increased drooling after those bicycles for young kids that saw them on tv shows.

One can see how Frank's design is kind of evolution of that design, just going higher with body instead of rising handlebars and MetroMPG's bicycle has that laid back attitude carried over from such bicycle of 80's.

In reality there probably is no relation, but customs have been around as long as bicycles have been common, I believe.


My best attempts with corrosion protection has been zink (spell checker fails to recognize, but Zn, I think word was zink?) primer, I apply it before welding as many of those say they are ok to weld too, just weld outdoors to avoid zink fever, great thing of applying zink primer before is that you actually get good shielding on places which are unreachable after welding.
I use that as poor man's powder coating, well it needs of course strong surface paint too on top of it. Might be worth to experiment with it.