Beau
New Member
I hate the **** Chinese kits with a passion. So I found an tiny little engine and I'm gonna see if it works. I took a piece of scrap pipe and bent a new downtube for a Schwinn I had laying around. After hacking out a section of the down tube I welded it in. I cut out a plate to mount the Briggs and Stratton and have started collecting parts for the rest of the build.
This evening I installed a different, rigid fork for tire clearance on the bike. I laced up a MTB disk brake front hub on to a Surly Large Marge rim. It's wider than any other MTB rim and with 2.4" tires they should be short and fat. I'm hoping the 24" wheels will give the bike a longer look without having to stretch the frame.
I took an old set of cruiser bars that had the right bend and chopped them off so I had a nice, narrow set of boardtrack looking bars and installed inverted levers.
That's about as far as I have made it for now.
194? Scwhinn Excelsior
26" Ross straight blade forks
1951 Briggs 1 h.p. with centrifugal belt drive clutch
Chopped cruiser bars
Time trial bar end mount levers (inverted or reverse levers)
24" Surly Large Marge DH rims
Disk front hub
24"x2.40 CST street tires
This is just a mock-up picture of the frame. Non of the parts are it are going to be used.
Engine
Bars-
Rims-
Inspiration-
This evening I installed a different, rigid fork for tire clearance on the bike. I laced up a MTB disk brake front hub on to a Surly Large Marge rim. It's wider than any other MTB rim and with 2.4" tires they should be short and fat. I'm hoping the 24" wheels will give the bike a longer look without having to stretch the frame.
I took an old set of cruiser bars that had the right bend and chopped them off so I had a nice, narrow set of boardtrack looking bars and installed inverted levers.
That's about as far as I have made it for now.
194? Scwhinn Excelsior
26" Ross straight blade forks
1951 Briggs 1 h.p. with centrifugal belt drive clutch
Chopped cruiser bars
Time trial bar end mount levers (inverted or reverse levers)
24" Surly Large Marge DH rims
Disk front hub
24"x2.40 CST street tires
This is just a mock-up picture of the frame. Non of the parts are it are going to be used.
Engine
Bars-
Rims-
Inspiration-