Mini Californian Rep

[750Rush]

Having built a Mongoose Californian earlier this year I thought I'd better built a little one for my lad. I'd been looking for a mitygoose for ages but one never came up for sale...



I spotted a mini chrome looptail which turned out ot be a Peugeot CPX-50 16" and thought that would be a good base. Shortly after picking it up, a 'real' mitygoose came up on ebay - sods law! :roll:  It cleaned up really well.



Here is the 1st pic of the build



The chrome is really good and I love the geometry of the frame. Unlike a mini burner, the slung top tube allows Daniel to touch both feet on the floor so he can ride this one as soon as it's build 

Crank assembly and chain fitted:



With fresh decals and the padset I nicked from it's bigger brother until I get a mini set made up.



Getting there...



Now with the brakes fitted and a spare mongoose padset (until I get a cali one made). The skyways are mid refurbishment and the raleigh mags will be removed. I may even remove the chainring and polish the teeth like I did on the full sized one  :wink:

[Andy68]

 

[Julian347]

Looking good 

[750Rush]

The 80's Skyways are on and the build is complete... with the exception of gold kool caps, gold skyway decals and cali padset. I have a hinged DC seat clamp in the post for it too but could wait any longer to get the pics up as the sun was out this afternoon  

It's a bit pic heavy, but there are some of it alongside the full sized version towards the bottom. Enjoy  

The full spec:

Peugeot CPX-50 16" Frame and Forks
Mongoose Californian decals (thanks oldschoolrb)
Raleigh Burner Mk2 bars
Raleigh 25th Anni seat post
NOS San Marco mini seat
Gold painted Mk2 seat clamp (to be replaced by DC hinged clamp)
NOS AME mini dual grips
NOS Sugino style sem by Quill (heads up my deeman on RAD)
NOS Chrome headset with 30mm frame cups (similar in appearance to Epoch Mori on my full size bike)
MX Tech 3 gold painted copy front and rear levers with Sharp lever sleeves
MX 1000 gold good copy calipers with imprinted MX logo (can't remember who  :oops: )
Black Skyway Tuff brake blocks
Black brake cables (Wilkos)
Original 80s 16" Black Skyway Tuffs  (seen worse ones sell for £100)
Mongoose Californian valve caps (thanks Scotty!)
Stainless steel washers
Rider fat thin comp 3's (I have a set of CST to go on)
16t Atom freewheel
40t black sugino chainring
Asco power disc painted in gold (thanks Ronnie)
x5 NOS Sugino bolts
KMC gold chain
Mini Burner Mk2 crank
NOS black plastic pedals
Raleigh BB
Mongoose full padset (to be replaced with Californian padset)
Everything stripped, cleaned and regreased with teflon grease