After construction of VMS Prix Fixe, I was left with a forkless 20" girls' bike and a soulless 16" girl-toddlers' bike. I got the bright idea to make a lowrider, and an hour later it was (poorly) welded together.
In a few days I painted the front-end black and got a chrome-crown black fork for a 27" wheel. A little channel-lock here, a little vise there, and now it's ready. Maybe someday she will get full-size ape hangers.
Total cost < $10
| Thruster | 20"x1.95" |
| Navigational Thruster | 16"x1.5" |
| Navigational Linkage | fork for 27" wheel |
| Drive | Single speed |
| Retro | Coaster brake |
| Christened | 9 June 2003 |
VMS Martika, pre-paint |
another flash view |
streetlamp view |
another streetlamp view |
the ugly truth |
3/4 shot |
VMS Martika, post-paint with new choppery tuxedo fork |
another side shot |
3/4 |
head-on |
head-on low |
the ugly truth part two: the coverup |
That headset is not threaded for that steer tube. Man it took a lot of effort to get it on there. |