Tall Bike Project

My nephew and I were looking at a cool book about building wacky bikes. We decided a tall bike would be a good one for a first project.

This was an educational adventure as well. He learned how to work with metal, create from instructions and expand his comfort zone with some adventure.

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Step 1: The Parts

We started with 2 junk BMX bikes from the parts pile. We used the following

2 frames (note: we actually used 3 frames, but that was because I did not have a fork for the top frame and had to improvise.
2 wheels
2 cranks, 1 modified
2 forks, 1 cut down to just the bearings and stub out bottom
1 stem
1 seat and seat post
1 piece of scrap angle iron
1 piece of scrap pipe
2+ bike chains. We pieced together 2 full ones and a partial.
Some scrap 2x4's were used to hold it together while welding.