With the frame complete I can now turn my attention to the front end. I started with a shock fork from a broke down mountain bike. I was a pink boys 24" bike. PINK. for a boy. Whatever! The color will change as the project nears completion.
Since I will be using a different style of brakes, I removed the canti-lever brake bracket.
In the middle of all this I stopped to build a bike work stand.
I can just clamp the bike by its frame and raise or lower it while also being able to rotate it 360 degrees. The 11's (the clampy thingy) is removable and came in handy for the next stage of the front suspension.
The fork fit neatly in the collar and made it easy to remove the bracket and sand down the welds. In case you are wondering, yes that is an ancient bench press bar and collars welded to a fifty pound home made weight.
Next I welded 1" hanger pipe clamps to the ends of the forks.
Then bearing "fenders" were welded to the insides clamps the hole on the forks were plug welded and it came out like this...
These will help keep the front wheel aligned once it is in place. The front wheel took about 3 weeks to arrive and it was well worth the wait and the money. It is a free wheel style like you would find on a Green Machine and costs a little over $80 after tax and shipping.
I then installed it to the fork and it looks cool.
Kinda like a sadists unicycle don't ya think. No pedals. No seat. Well anyway I had some pedals just laying around,
Seriously they were just laying there, well more like hanging around but none the less. I put these on the front wheel, attached the whole unit(I said unit) to the frame, added a stem and some handle bars for effect and it came out looking like this.
Now onto the rear axle and wheels.
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