Just finished, grocery getter!

Alas the paper boy is obsolete. No longer can a newspaper here can get delivered to your door. The post office handles that believe it of not. You get tomorrows paper with your mail.
Sorry to derail,but I thought I needed to add that little tidbit in.

Your bike is wicked! Very nice job tf!

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Tinkerfinger, I was talking about those old Mechanics Illustrated magazines
of the 40's and 50's here recently. Where men developed kits that worked dependably and then went to machine shops to have the parts produced to their specifications. They were then sold mail order and delivered by outfits like Railway Express.

It was a different time in America and 1/2 and 3/4 hp Briggs engines were
common. Clinton's and Techumsa motors were around but ya just couldn't beat out an old Briggs. I'm really curious to see what your set up would look like mounted on a bicycle.

I love a bike that works well as well as looks good. Style with Substance is worth way more than the sum of the 2.The load you can carry there is bigger than would be safe possibly as you could fit a VW motor in a basket that size. No the groceries is about right for the load capacity. And it does look mighty fine.

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I was looking at the guy's bike and all of a sudden I had a flashback of my own paper route. Talk about deja vu all over again, there I was rain coming down in sheets and me 13 years old and 100 pounds trying to steer that tank of a truck bike with all them soggy newspapers.

No, the Grocery Getter is not for me!

ricland

Awsome build with very classic lines Nice attention to details.

That is the nicest rack I have ever seen.
Did you make it.

I tried 3/8 inch thick plastic cutting block motor mount spacers. They will shatter. I finally used goop to glue the bolted motor mounts to the frame.

Nice red rider!

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i never rode a bike with a BIG front basket. i wonder if it would make it hard to steer if the basket were filled up with cold beer? expecially if the trip was hot and.....(in no way promoting drunk motorized biking)

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Loosely packed with newspapers to throw is what it is designed for. I have used them for that a little but found I could carry bags and reach back to a back basket for most of my papers. That was easier to control than a high mounted front basket. about half full would be good for me though.

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an action, but a habit." -- Aristotle