[Heaven's Night]

Wow nice bike, excellent pinstriping, you should advertise people pay good money for that sort of stuff

There is no way I could make this as a job... No way, its too demanding, too expensive and Finland is absolutely tiny, so the market for custom bikes is even tinier. Its just impossible, especially the way I have to do things as I lack space and good tools and have to improvise a lot. Otherwise its a cool idea and these things are very expensive, I bet I could sell this black bike for 3000€. Parts and sand blasting and everything cost me around 800-1000€ in the end so it turned out quite costly.

The pin stiping is kinda neat, I didn't use marked spots for it, so looking closely you can tell its free hand style work... Doing it with tape and brush is really old school, I wanted to prove that I can do the painjob so clean, there's no way to tell its not done with a paintgun and it worked out really well, super neat, not a single brush stroke is visible.

I'm in particular happy about the finish of the entire thing. And the details, there are certain parts with gold hue. Bell, the horn, lock bolts on the fork (Made in Taiwan Schwinn repro), the chain and so on. The seat btw was originally black, my fiance helped me to add the leopard print finish on it. And that white fur thingie is kinda scarft type of thing from my grandma, I bet she would laugh a whole lot finding the current use for it. xD The gear shifter, that's so cool, its 3-speed Torpedo from 60's, backhub is same era three speed Sachs Torpedo, one of the neat things on which German engineering has hit a homerun.

I should try to find batteries for the torpedo shaped lamp in the middle, its another repro piece and it takes those huge old school batteries which are a bit hard to find. Then the hand made pieces, I had to make something to get the fork spring sit in right place and something to make the sissybar attachment get far enough and make it so that the back wheel can be adjusted/removed without messing with the sissy bar. Those things are all hand tooled, took a good while to make them from the flat steel bar.





Stevenator, the fish traps are kinda neat, the idea is very ancient one and Finns have used that type of a trap for millenia... These days they're made from steel wiring and netting but the old kind were built in place so they stayed all summer in same spot and were much bigger. Modern ones are similar but made of metal and they're movable. I'll drop a few pictures with some more detailed explanation some time soon, I should have pictures of the ones I made somewhere.