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Low Rider..
Take a trip with me down memory lane, for those who are old enough to have owned a high-rise handle bar cruiser bike complete with banana seat and sissy bar.
We spend hours polishing all that chrome. and dreaming that one day this would be a motorcycle like the one in easy rider.
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Built for this month's challenge "Summer Of '69" over at LUGnuts, this kind of customized and overaccessorized scooter was what many members of the subculture of mods used for transportation in the 1960's.
Take a look at what other LUGnutters built for the challenge here:
Fabienne: Whose motorcycle is this?
Butch: It's a chopper, baby.
Fabienne: Whose chopper is this?
Butch: It's Zed's.
Fabienne: Who's Zed?
Butch: Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
It's a Custom Bobber actually, and to answer the question, it's MINE ALL MINE! This is my new toy. Complete with Old School Root Beer Metal Flake helmet. It's a custom build that was done by The Cycle Xchange in Matthews, NC. It was even featured in an article in IronWorks Magazine called "Bobbing for Dollars."
Strobist Info: Tripod mounted Fuji S5 Pro with 18-70mm lens, on camera flash set for Manual 1/128. Stand Mounted Nikon SB-800 in Medium Softbox set for TTL, camera left. Nikon SB-600 behind shoot through umbrella resting on the floor camera right. Exposure value for Nikon strobes both bumped +.03 and fired by Nikon CLS. Epoque DS-150 strobe shot through a Westcott Oval 1 Stop Silk Reflector hung at a 45 degree angle over the middle/top of the bike in slave mode.
I had totally forgot about this job, until I came across this photo this morning. I made the leather belt cover and a little piece to attache the gas tank, many years ago.. I have never seen it attached to the bike before today.. Well, the owner sure knows how to pack his bike :-)
Strobist Info: Tripod mounted Fuji S5 Pro with 18-70mm lens, on camera flash set for Manual 1/128. Stand Mounted Nikon SB-800 in Medium Softbox set for TTL, camera left. Nikon SB-600 behind shoot through umbrella resting on the floor camera right. Exposure value for Nikon strobes both bumped +.03 and fired by Nikon CLS. Epoque DS-150 strobe shot through a Westcott Oval 1 Stop Silk Reflector hung at a 45 degree angle over the middle/top of the bike in slave mode.
Model: Felina Fetishdoll
Styling and MUA: Felina Fetishdoll
Bike's : Harley-Davidson FXDX/I Dyna Super Glide Custom build
Yamaha XS650SE Custom build
Photo taken at A-Bombers old style weekend in Backamo - Sweden, foto - Rusty Ranch.....
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This bike reminded me of how cool it was to have an actual "Cheater Slick" on your bike! Rose City Roundup 2012.
Flamboyant raspberry MURRAY F3 ELIMINATOR
"An easy riding smart looking vehicle. features "333" factory adjusted 3 speed rear hub with positive click shift gear lever mounted on twin top bars in handsome chrome die cast housing. Hand caliper brakes front and rear, new soft foam rubber padded seat and new control contour handlebars."
July 1967
1968 Sears Screamer 1.
i am the second owner.
i purchased this bike as you see it here from a man who had it since he was a kid.
i cant see how he took such good care of it.
i am under the understanding that Columbia made this bike for Sears.
you can usually tell by the chainring.
Most Sears bikes of the time were made by Murray.
even Screamers of other years that i have seen were made by Murray.
the condition you see this bike in now is as i brought it home.
it was pouring out, but i was too excited. i had to get some photos.
it has tall, wide ape hangers, not the interesting Ramshorn bars you see on a lot of these.
i am not sure why. it seemed like an add on option, but it seems to also have all other add on options.
- dual rear brakes, each brake lever on the bars controls one of these.
- console shifter, 5 speed and parking brake. not sure how the parking brake works.
- rat trap front springer fork.
- springer shock sissy bar.
- carlisle slick with no cracks. great shape.
i spent some time cleaning this up.
i am going to put it all back together soon.
if anyone has any more info or knowledge of this bike, i would love to hear it.
Murray Sportcrest with a 65t sprocket from a Schwinn exercise bike (dont worry the chain is not yet adjusted).
It´s good to be finished with the upholstery test and start doing motorcycle things again.. this is todays pinstriping with silver and gold metallic 1-shot paint.. it´s also some pinstriping on the frame and both sides of the oil tank.. I also did the leather seat some years ago, and its more than well used.
1948 Panhead rigid chopper. Finished and sold in 1969, the year the movie "Easy Rider" came out. The pipes, seat and sissybar came from AEE Choppers in LA. We had the solid fork tubes made at D&V Machine Shop in Stockton,CA. The rigid frame/rigid fork bike was completely unsprung and a real butt buster to ride but we didn't care. I had a Hap Jones peanut tank welded to the frame and molded the whole thing smooth with about a gallon of bondo. Scanned from a 1969 Kodak print.
Fuji 10-spd converted to Single speed
Original 52t chain ring (flipped crank) w/ 18t freewheel cog (fixed 16t on the other side)
'80's Shimano 600 pedals w/ cages
Inverted '70's Schwinn Pixie handlebars
Tomcat 50mm aero wheels
DIY front brake from Weinmann
DIY rattle-can & pinstripe paintjob
Built for this month's challenge "Summer Of '69" over at LUGnuts, this kind of customized and overaccessorized scooter was what many members of the subculture of mods used for transportation in the 1960's.
Take a look at what other LUGnutters built for the challenge here:
So, about an hour after I took these couple shots I got my hair cut WAY shorter. There's a lot of things I liked about long hair, but it's a pain in the ass to manage :p
So, I figured I'd have a little fun in my final moments before my mop-chop.
And yes, I donated to 'Locks of Love'
The first Sting-Ray, a sidewalk surf, was there a way to be cooler in 1964???
FUN AND EXCITEMENT... A BRAND NEW IDEA IN BIKES!
Schwinn STING-RAY
The bicycle with the sports car look. Highly maneuverable...short turning radius...quick response on starts. Equipped with 20" frale, high traction studded balloon rear tire, standard middleweight front tire, butterfly handlebars, Solo-Polo saddle.
Flamboyant Lime, Red, Radiant Coppertone, Sky Blue or Violet.
J38 Sting-Ray.........$49.95