This is a frame I purchased it at the first Midwest Bicycle Swap. I occasionally bring it down from the attic and build it up. Here is the first time and here another time to take to the Tour De Fat in Colorado.

On a whim the other night I once again got it down from the attic. It's pretty rough. I took the angle grinder and a flap disc to it then primered it. It was 50 degrees in the garage. Not good for painting.



Next night I painted it (again around 50 degrees) and started building it back up. The paint is a Rustoleum textured paint. Has a faux rusty/patina'd look to it I think.


More on it later.

Today Grand-son Ethan and I attended a ride to check out the RatRodBikes.com Auction Bike. This bike was built from parts donated by forum members from here and all over the US and was assembled locally. It'll be auctioned off with the proceeds going to support the RatRodBikes.com website. The auction begins December 1st.

The ride was real brief as the winds were gusting up to 45mph. Ethan was blown in to a bridge rail twice and on the way home we seen a porta-potty at a construction site blow over.

Here are photos I took...



The bike was built to resemble the t-shirt graphic from the website. Here is the bikes builder modeling with the bike.



Video...

I really liked the way this bike that I built up for Halloween rode so I decided to keep it together but change it up a little for another upcoming ride. I swapped out the wheels with a set I built years ago the rear being a Bendix 2 speed automatic (kickback), different tires, crank, added a water bottle cage and a rack that I had started on some time ago but never finished.





The tail light is a cheap LED flashlight that I painted and covered the clear lens with red tail light repair tape. It's mounted to the coaster brake arm with a seat post clamp.

A couple of nights ago the Grandsons and I tore down this bike and gave it a paint job. Tonight we reassembled it using a different seat, sprocket and grips. We left off the chainguard. We then went riding and had a "rat rod" race. On this bike you have to let the air out of the rear tire to remove it from the frame. After returning home from riding we realized we forgot to put air back in the tire.



Rat rod race video...

Two years ago I hurriedly built up this Schwinn American for our Patriotic Ride but wasn't real pleased with it. A couple days ago I went and got the frame out of storage to hurriedly build it up again for this year's Patriotic ride. I repainted the frame in a darker, flat blue. Put on different bars that I painted off white. Reupholstered some leopard grips with red material. Put on a different seat and made the tank plate. To quote myself from last time "I'd like to have done more but ran out of time. Maybe next year." More photos here.

We might be attending an upcoming Tour De Fat in Colorado and I wanted something different to take should we go. I put this together a couple nights ago. The wheels and seat are off of this bike.

More photos...

Had the day off and built up 2 bikes.


The first one was previously this Schwinn Ratrod. Built it to ride at tonight's Ant-Tweed ride. Needed some green to clash with my outfit.


The second is the frame I bought at last Sunday's swap meet. Monark I think. The forks were off a newer Murry I believe and the fork truss/fake springer thing of a 60s bike. Brooks saddle.

Schwinn Rat Rod.
Build photos and info here.