Since everything is ready for the show except: T-shirts, Dash plaques, bands, schedule, trophies, insurance, goody bags and......... Since I'm right on schedule. (Ha, Ha, Ha) I took a couple of days off and had a kool weekend with my kids. This weekend we were busy kustomiz'n bicycles. We are having a bike show during this years Stray Kat. My daughter is 11yrs old and wanted a bike to show off. We have been working on my daughters bike for about a month know and its almost ready for this years show. We started with an OCC Sting Ray chopper and trying to turned it into a Bobber. We took off the chopper forks and added a '26 inch Springer front end. We used a large Chrome skull hitch cover to cover up the front of the spring. Took off the 24 inch front wheel and added a 20 inch, 3 inch wide front tire. We removed the rear fender and tonight we will add the cruiser seat. Now she is having to learn how to ride a lowered bike. If you are not careful you will drag the pedals. Kool it is low enough . Next year we will have all of the OCC stuff off of the bike and repainted. Instead of OCC we will turn it into a Kat Bike. My Son 15 yrs old felt left out, and he didn't want to ride my beach cruiser. So we bought the Jessie James bike. We took off all of the Jessie stickers, and the reflectors. Started combining ideas to work on the kustom stuff. Below are pictures of my Daughter trying to look bad on her Bike. My kids have been around the car thing all of their lives. This is the first time that I really introduced them to kustomizing. They are starting to understand why I act they way that I do. Sunday My son was asking questions on how you lower a car and chop the top etc.., Kustomizing 101 "mind set" . Buy something that has potential, and make it your own. Happy Trails, Mick
That is nice. Kids need someone to lead them in the RIGHT direction. This way we might end up with more leaders instead of this wcc/occ/boyd follow the leader mentality we got now.
[size=+2]Mickey, I love it. The bobb tail looks about a gabillion times better than what you started with. And you're son looks soooo happy to be in the picture!!! I think I have all the bicycle parts lined up for the bike off. We're not gonna have springer forks and dayton wheels, but we'll have plenty of mechanicals to get by. I am bringing a truck load of salvage bikes to the show. Are you going to the swap meet this weekend??? Maybe we can meet up and plan this part all out. PM me or call me. Those bikes are RIGHT ON!!! Reverend Jake[/size]
speaking of those bikes..meijer (great lakes walmart type thing) had 20% off all chopper bikes last week
My daughter is only 2 1/2, think I might start looking for an old stingray ,those bikes are nice..good job!
I've always loved working on bikes, so few important moving parts you can get really creative! here's the last bike i built came as a free corpse got all the new **** from lovelylowrider.com
Hey Rev, Thanks for the kind words.... I'll send ya a pm tomorrow about the Tulsa Swap meet. I plan on going early Saturday too look for some stuff. Happy Trails, Mick
nice man i love customising pushies heres a pic of one me and my mate recently finished all junk parts total cost was about $75 aussie btw how much are those jesse james bikes in america because ther are about $1800 here http://photobucket.com/albums/v708/switchone/?action=view¤t=mybike2.jpg
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