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Sadly no from the reading I've done on that post the Sunlite Deluxe has a 90mm width forks and the higher dollar Felt springer forks only have a 80mm width forks. It appears my Sunlites are the widest forks available in the springer style.
Thing is I am curious if one can fit say a 2 1/2" wide tire on the rear of my frame. If one can I might consider trying to fit one to the front as well.
I think I'd like to purchase a tube bender and build the frame from scratch...
Sounds fun. I actually found a place that sells more period correct frames than this. They are more money but I am seriously thinking about buying one of these other frames for my build. Down side is it looks like you have to use their engines which are more pricy.
But it has the vintage Indian board track racer look though. I could spice it up and put "Harley Davidson" on the tank instead.
They also sell the proper Indian style fuel tank for that frame the fuel tank alone is $525 so for just the frame and the fuel tank you are right at $890 and here I built mine with frame, handle bar, front fork, stem for $510.64
Not mine but I was looking cause a guy told me to get the tires matched at my local bicycle shop. I highly doubt my local bicycle shop will have white wall vintage looking tires but apparently theres many different tire size options and rim options and they have to be the same.
In any case I found these two photos of the 26x2.125 CST C241 White Wall tire mounted on a 26x2.125 wheel.
Really gives an idea of how the tire and rim will look once assembled.
I also hope it doesn't come with that ugly bug painted on the white wall. I might risk damaging one of these $12 tires to try and scrub that off.
Little update, just spent $65 with Grubee, same guy who makes this frame. I bought the 61mm HD #2 axle that has the threaded sprocket and disc brake adapters and its a single speed build for my 150mm frame. I got 150mm as I thought of doing a shift kit with multi speed but I realized the race bikes don't have multi speed as each chain eats up power and you now have three chains for a shift kit. I decided to go single speed.
Why my next build will be on a 135mm drop out frame make it easier buying wheel sets off the shelf.
Aside from that don't know what I will do with wheels. I can buy the wheels I found for $115 then pay $50 to lace in this hub but that will set me back a grand total of $230. Might be able to get a local bike shop to sell me rim, spokes, and hub for the front and build me two wheels at $100 labor for two wheels and come out cheaper than $230.
I also don't know about this tire still. Guy told me with the 38mm wide/29mm inside width rims I am looking at, this tire wont be as tall as it would be with a narrower rim but it would be considerably fatter and it might not fit on my frame or fork. Apparently bicycle tires when they say 26x2.125 is not 26" tall x 2.125" wide, it just a form factor and that the width of the tire is dependent on the width of the rim, ie narrow rim tall skinnier tire wide rim short fatter tire.
lol I wish. No this first one I am going simple. A hot rodded 66cc 2 stroke Chinese engine. I could buy a race engine rated at 5 - 6 HP but everyone tells me those race engines are set up with a narrow power band and I would be better off tuning the engine myself for a wide power band. My goal is how ever to reach about 4 to 5 hp.
My second build will be a 212cc predator 4 stroke, those I found a nice little performance shop online that sells all kind of race cams for those engines. Just haven't decided how to gut the engine down to make it look less like a lawnmower engine.
Got my refund back in the bank today so yesterday and today I ordered some nitpicking parts for my build.
Today I used my $30.30 store credit from Niagara to get two of the 26x2.125 CST CS241 white wall cruiser tires. I also placed my order for a front and rear wheel set for $145.23 after shipping. Hopefully the spokes will be useable with my new hub that shipped out today. If not I don't think spokes will set me back as much as having the local bike shop build my wheels.
I also last night ordered for $15 a brand new in the box sport speedometer kit with built in odometer. I opted out of the trip as I never use trip meters and on this it only goes up to 999 miles before it resets.
Think I will hold off now on ordering parts for a week or so. I am looking at bicycleheaven as they have a bunch of vintage parts including fenders.
Only thing I need to do some reading on is tubes and tube liners. I don't want the slime tubes even though they would make for better use, I don't care to try and clean that stuff up if I do get a flat. I much rather invest in a heavier duty tube and tube liner.
No pictures yet but update is I have parts arriving tomorrow and Saturday.
For tomorrow I have my handle bar, Grubee 61mm HD hub, and maybe my speedometer I bought off ebay which is coming from Ok and is already here in town at 4pm today.
For Saturday I have my wheels arriving and I hope FedEx delivers them early enough in the day that I have time to hit up my local bike shop to get them to swap my hub over and to true up my front wheel.
Aside from that tires I purchased yesterday at lunch time still has a pending order and I just know its going to take 1 to 2 weeks to get them in just like with the free shipping on the front forks I bought from them took 2 weeks to arrive after I placed my order.
Nice, that looks like some of the frames I was looking at. I'm seriously thinking about not building this frame a second time but buying one of those. They hold a lot more fuel that's for sure than this bike.
Down side is that one will be a lot of money to build right and I don't know if I want to sink that much money into a bicycle that will ultimately be powered by a cheap 2 stroke china engine lol.
Have to figure out the rear axle Grubee emailed me back said it will work but will require spacers.
I don't see how Grubee can sell a 150mm drop out frame but doesn't offer a 150mm drop out hub that is made just for it. Anyways there are washers and four nuts so I can use the nuts to adjust the wheel alignment and use the other as a jam nut to lock the axle to the frame. Down side is I am now wondering if I center the wheel will I be able to use my disc brakes.
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