s&m scraper

[darkersomeday]

heres how far i've got with my rat bike,
a bit more chopping and it'll be ready for rust,
it'll serve as my van bike and live chained to the landy, other folk can use it etc,etc,
 perry's going to help me with the crank choice but he doesnt know it yet

i need an old school nasty black plastic seat to go on the welded in post

rv frame with mounts shaved and polished patchy

scraaaaaape




any nasty idea's and offers more than welcome

[SaMAlex]

whats going on with the decals? they look great

[lazychubs]

joe i may have a seat and love the wheels how bright are they
were ya get em from

[pickle]

those wheels are fooking awful Joe!  looks like a cheap Toys R Us bike!   

just speaking my mind Joe 

[darkersomeday]

those wheels are fooking awful Joe!  looks like a cheap Toys R Us bike!   

just speaking my mind Joe 

cheers pickle
thats reference enough for me

the wheels are just painted in plasticote fluoro orange dude
theyre actually way,way brighter than the pic suggests, my camera cant handle them

i wanted the american 1950's hotrod look but with a sick making new twist

al, the original stickers were just engraved round with the dremel then stripped off with mors

[perry]

you want me to do what 

spotted the engraved wording , that must be a steady hand 

i like the hotrod "theme" i can see what your going for   















and a bit more period



maybe mould a sheet of alloy for the seat

[darkersomeday]

yeh baby thyere all spot on

check out the ascona!!

that bike is just gorgeous though, sooo nicely built,

my mate umper was on about a folded ally seat for it the other night! might give it a try,



suggest me some freaky cranks eh?

[harris]

lonin your style boys ,mad looking ride that joe just how dan likes them   

perry you need a trip down this way for some of them motors.

[Dingobmxer]

Joe those raw Slams I got would be cool on that and I have a selle nitrox seat but in blue that you couls spray orange?

And an S&M solid 36t sprocket in black

  DINGO

[darkersomeday]

great minds mark

i've had those slams in my mind for this pup

s&m c-wheel sounds good too, i'll give you a shout after the weekend mate

[perry]

the seat wouldnt be too hard , get a crap plastic seat and fold the alloy over it , dress the edge back with a small hammer . maybe even bolt straight to through the top into a seatpost

to reallllly wind up mates

http://www.powercranks.com/

but very very pricey

white industries do some nice cranks , but might not fit the stylee . ill have a think

where abouts are you harris ?

are you wanting to keep the thick rust off it but have a tarnihed finish ? i wipe mine with gt85 on a scourer about once a month , its going nice and dark

[harris]

i do like those decals also joe spesh the fork ones.

[perry]

i take it your familiar with the tioga seat ?



im sure they do it white too , maybe it could be dyed ?

how about profiles , id be tempted to drill them between the spline and pedal end and weld in tubes , id say there would be no loss in strength as the tubes will add to the torsional rigidity . plus they will tarnish with the frame

years ago i had some primos in black that i half rubbed down , they would suit it well

or how about some primos with the logo sanded off and engraved







flames are overdone but scallops always look good , or many many overlapping s&m shield logos

[Dingobmxer]

I have a blue one of these:_

 

its made of hard plastic so should take a coat of paint or panel beat some alloy to it and pop rivet it on?

  DINGO

[perry]

i do like a selle italia , my beater standard has my slr on it at the moment 

id be tempted to cut the entre out and rivet in a sheet of copper ( find a tube big enough in diameter , cut along and manipulate flat )

i like the xlite posts too 

joey are you bodging a caliper on or are you subjecting people to the joys of the foot in the rear tyre 

[darkersomeday]

cheers padre!

i'll give the gt85 a try, heres the finish i'm after,





the engraved parts look amazing dude, them idea's are going into the mix


i tried a spyder seat on my old laf actually
it was kind of too long, which is a pet hate

cool idea with the profiles!
the primo's  and shitmano xtr's are in the lead though

[zed4130]

nice home made job  

[darkersomeday]

i do like a selle italia , my beater standard has my slr on it at the moment 

id be tempted to cut the entre out and rivet in a sheet of copper ( find a tube big enough in diameter , cut along and manipulate flat )

i like the xlite posts too 

joey are you bodging a caliper on or are you subjecting people to the joys of the foot in the rear tyre 

foot in tyre

if you call me "joey" again i'll ride this fooker all the way to grantham and implant it firmly in your anus
 

i'll keep the selle in mind mark, cheers, that would be perfect with a little re-shape

[perry]

i remember them making that one , it was a rarety because the fella knew what he was doing  the bloke behing the camera was a coont though eh

cant remember how they got that colour though 

dont forget that with xtrs youl be needing some dmr wondercups

[darkersomeday]

yeh man,

got the wondercups with the frame

i'd really like middleburns but they always seem to bid high

[perry]

rightfully so

middleburns are ace

my mate gave me mine  they were kicking around his workshop

im halfway through polishing mine but have lost the lockring  mines a compact 5 arm but ill be getting a 4 arm so i can swap rings between my other bikes

i suggest an fsa ultimax bottom bracket , ti axle in a carbon shell and decently cheap on the bay 

are they wondercup 2s , the originals put the mtb bottom bracket out further a few mm , the 2s are recessed so the bb sits in the same place it would if the frame had the correct shell

middleburn also do a dh spider thats reet nice and will put the ring closer in 

if you dont mind mtb cranks on it look for some grafton or kooka , damn retro cool 

[perry]

watching father ted at the mo and its the one where ted dnts the car and chases it around the car 

a hammered finish would be another though , maybe on the stem/cranks/seatpost etc

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://lh3.google.com/_4vyDUqUrsbw/RT-mtarXABI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/sEOUvUID5lo/s800/IMG_1151.jpg&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/-k24GK_bH7ugeWrFSioH4Q&h=800&w=600&sz=103&hl=en&start=31&um=1&tbnid=zEJlL1ZnC0f1XM:&tbnh=143&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhammered%2Bfinish%2B%26start%3D18%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

id wail on it with a ball pin hammer and then sand the harsh edges off . if its a painted item a nice effect could be made with hammering and sanding 

[darkersomeday]

might give that a whirl on the powerbites

i'm searching for a fecked set now,

what did that seat start of as zed?

[perry]

zed your seat reminds me of the time a few of us decided to "recover" a mates primo seat while he was drunk ( he was always drunk , we messed with him on a daily basis  )

we had found some rag on the garage floor to "cover" it but when i was putting the top back on i lost all but one of the screws that held it on 

just walked away 

i could also take his bars off and put them on the wrong way in a matter of mins , even putting the lever on the correct side  , he spent a day riding it like that because no matter how many times he spun the bars around he couldnt work it out 

[magna13]

loving the s&m, cant wait to see the finished result!