My Rat Rod - Riff Raff

Rockenstein · #11 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 06:20 PM

The old CCM frame pictured will be a pedal only rider me thinks although ya never know...when you got torches, some steel tubing, a spare motor and a spare Manic Mechanic sprocket adapter collecting dust under the workbench who knows what can happen

Deadend · #12 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Rockenstein

The old CCM frame pictured will be a pedal only rider me thinks although ya never know...when you got torches, some steel tubing, a spare motor and a spare Manic Mechanic sprocket adapter collecting dust under the workbench who knows what can happen

lol scratch the itch brother!

bairdco · #13 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 08:52 PM

if you're gonna keep the red junker as a pedal-er, here's an old school fork fixing method.

put the bike together, turn the handlebars around, and ride into a brick wall a few times.

seriously.

**2door** · #14 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 09:04 PM

Rock, you never cease to keep me interested in what you're building. I can't wait to see that junk yard refugee complete. Great work.
Tom

wheelbender6 · #15 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 10:10 PM

Well done, Rocky. I have posted a few of my cruisers on ratrodbikes also.
It's a good site for bicycle specific info.

sojudave · #16 (**permalink**) 10-08-2009, 10:12 AM

Rat Rod bikes.com is a cool site. I was building a chopper and had lowrider springer forks. What I did with bouncy problem was remove the spring and replace it with a piece of steel tubing. In this case it was a piece of a spare pair of handlebars from a mountain bike. I didn't need to bottom out the bike, which would have been a certainty due to it being 3.5 inches off the ground. The bike handled alot better without the spring but due to design issues on my part, I scrapped the project all together.

Rockenstein · #17 (**permalink**) 10-13-2009, 10:46 AM

Was just thinking, I've got to learn better self control with regards to sites like ratrodbikes.com...and the vintage motorcycle sites...and the youtube videos of old Indians, Harley's, Norton"s and Excelsior's

Then again some of the vintage bike stuff is so inspiring and then when I go read ..again.. about how Burt Munroe would scrounge up discarded cast iron city gas pipe and use it to turn up some cylinders for his old Indian in a well used and worn 3 1/2" 1920's Myford lathe....my head hurts...lol

Newbie · #18 (**permalink**) 10-23-2009, 05:18 PM

Weird how that plug slants the opposite way

bandito · #19 (**permalink**) 10-25-2009, 06:25 AM

That CCM frame top tube looks bent when the forks took a hit.

42blue15 · #20 (**permalink**) 10-25-2009, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by bairdco

i wouldn't let a motor get anywhere near that frame. not with those bolted on rear seatstays. yikes!

The seatstays aren't bolted on, they're welded like normal. They might be really thin at the top end, but they're welded.

The split for tightening the seat-post in the seat tube is in the rear center between the seatstays, and the bolt you see is the bolt for tightening the seatpost in the frame. With these kinds of frames, there is no additional seat-post clamp needed. This was considered a "customized" touch on frames in the 1960's and 1970's, and became fairly common on many bikes made during the 1980's.

The forks definitely are trashed, but I do not think that the frame itself is bent from the front-end collision.
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